About Nickel & Nickel
Far Niente's single-vineyard-only Oakville sister estate — every Nickel & Nickel wine comes from a single vineyard, a single variety, a single vintage
Nickel & Nickel is the single-vineyard laboratory of the Far Niente family — an estate founded in 1997 with one absolute rule: every wine is produced from a single vineyard, a single variety, and a single vintage, with nothing blended away.
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Nickel & NickelNickel & Nickel is the single-vineyard laboratory of the Far Niente family — an estate founded in 1997 with one absolute rule: every wine is produced from a single vineyard, a single variety, and a single vintage, with nothing blended away.
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While Far NienteWhile Far Niente produces estate blends of extraordinary quality, Nickel & Nickel exists to answer a different question: what does each individual Oakville, Rutherford, and Napa Valley vineyard site produce when it stands entirely alone?
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The answer hasThe answer has been revelatory across 25 years of single-vineyard Napa Valley production.
"Far Niente's single-vineyard-only Oakville sister estate — every Nickel & Nickel wine comes from a single vineyard, a si"
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Featured Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon
John C. Sullenger Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Oakville / Sullenger Vineyard
Nickel & Nickel's Oakville single-vineyard flagship — Sullenger Cabernet demonstrating the specific warm benchland character of this Oakville family's estate fruit in the most purely unblended Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon expression available from the single-vineyard-only Napa program.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
CC Ranch Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Rutherford / CC Ranch
A contrasting Rutherford single-vineyard expression — CC Ranch Cabernet showing the distinct Rutherford Dust mineral character and how dramatically a different Napa Valley sub-appellation expresses the same Bordeaux variety when nothing from other sites is blended in.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Branding Iron Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Oakville / Branding Iron Vineyard
Nickel & Nickel's most powerful single-vineyard expression — Branding Iron Vineyard Oakville Cabernet from a specific western benchland site showing the most concentrated and age-worthy character of the Nickel & Nickel single-vineyard Oakville portfolio.
Estate
★★★★☆
Merlot
Suscol Ranch Merlot
Napa Valley / Suscol Ranch
Nickel & Nickel's single-vineyard Merlot expression — Suscol Ranch showing what the single-vineyard-only philosophy produces in Napa Valley's most plush and food-compatible Bordeaux red variety from a specific named family ranch source.
Estate
★★★★☆
Tasting Experiences
Book on Tock →Single Vineyard Comparative Tasting
Daily appointment at the 1884 Oakville farmhouse — side-by-side single-vineyard Cabernet comparison from Sullenger, CC Ranch, and Branding Iron, the most genuinely educational site-specific Napa Valley Cabernet tasting available. Far Niente family quality at individual vineyard resolution.
$75
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