About Nichelini Family Winery
The oldest family-owned winery in Napa Valley — the Nichelini family has continuously produced wine on the Sage Canyon Road property since Anton Niche
Nichelini Family Winery holds the most extraordinary family continuity record in California wine history: the Nichelini family has continuously owned and produced wine from the same Sage Canyon Road property since Swiss-Italian immigrant Anton Nichelini established the estate in 1890 — making Nichelini the oldest continuously family-owned winery in the Napa Valley and one of the oldest in California wine history.
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Nichelini Family WineryNichelini Family Winery holds the most extraordinary family continuity record in California wine history: the Nichelini family has continuously owned and produced wine from the same Sage Canyon Road property since Swiss-Italian immigrant Anton Nichelini established the estate in 1890 — making Nichelini the oldest continuously family-owned winery in the Napa Valley and one of the oldest in California wine history.
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Through 135+ yearsThrough 135+ years of California history — including Prohibition (which the Nichelini family survived by selling sacramental wine, as did Beaulieu Vineyard), the Great Depression, multiple economic recessions, the modern wine renaissance, and the technological transformation of the California wine industry — no transfer of ownership outside the family has ever occurred.
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Every generation ofEvery generation of the Nichelini family has passed the Sage Canyon Road property to the next with the most unbroken thread of family wine stewardship in the Napa Valley.
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Featured Wines
Zinfandel
Chiles Valley Zinfandel
Chiles Valley / Nichelini Estate
The most historically continuous family Zinfandel in the Napa Valley — Nichelini Chiles Valley estate Zinfandel from 135+ years of unbroken Swiss-Italian family farming on Sage Canyon Road eastern mountain volcanic terrain, showing the concentrated, food-compatible character that the most generationally continuous Napa Valley family winery produces in California's most historically Italian-immigrant-associated heritage red variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Petite Sirah
Petite Sirah
Chiles Valley / Nichelini Estate
Nichelini's most powerfully structured estate expression — Chiles Valley Petite Sirah from 135+ years of continuous family Sage Canyon Road farming, dark and concentrated in the most historically resonant and generationally committed format of the oldest family-owned winery in the Napa Valley's estate Petite Sirah program.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon
Chiles Valley / Nichelini Estate
Nichelini's most broadly recognized estate red — Chiles Valley Cabernet Sauvignon from 135+ years of unbroken family Sage Canyon Road farming showing the volcanic mountain mineral character and natural concentration that the most historically continuous family wine estate in the Napa Valley consistently produces on eastern ridge terrain.
Estate
★★★★☆
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Book on Tock →135-Year Family Heritage Weekend Walk-In
Weekend walk-in at the oldest continuously family-owned winery in the Napa Valley (1890) — estate Chiles Valley Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, and Cabernet from 135+ years of unbroken Nichelini family Sage Canyon Road farming. Picnic grounds, family-friendly, most historically resonant and genuinely family-personally-conducted weekend walk-in in California wine history.
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