About Rutherford Hill Winery
The Terlato family's Rutherford Bench hilltop estate with Napa Valley's largest cave system — 36,000 square feet of hand-carved aging caves tunneled b
Rutherford Hill Winery is one of the Napa Valley's most geologically dramatic and visitor-comprehensive wine estates.
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Rutherford Hill WineryRutherford Hill Winery is one of the Napa Valley's most geologically dramatic and visitor-comprehensive wine estates.
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The hillside propertyThe hillside property on the Rutherford Bench above Highway 29 — where the cave system that makes Rutherford Hill one of the Napa Valley's most visited wine destinations was hand-carved over decades into the benchland hillside — provides aging conditions of natural temperature control and humidity that the winery's 36,000 square feet of cave tunnels maintain without mechanical assistance.
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The Terlato familyThe Terlato family — whose wine importing and distribution company built relationships with the world's greatest wine producers across 50 years of fine wine commerce — acquired Rutherford Hill in 1996 and invested in the cave expansion and hospitality infrastructure that has made the hilltop property one of the Rutherford corridor's most atmospherically complete tasting destinations.
"The Terlato family's Rutherford Bench hilltop estate with Napa Valley's largest cave system — 36,000 square feet of hand"
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Featured Wines
Merlot
Rutherford Bench Merlot
Rutherford / Rutherford Hill Estate
The wine that built Rutherford Hill's reputation — Rutherford Bench estate Merlot cave-aged in 36,000 square feet of hand-carved hillside tunnels, showing the plush, food-first Rutherford Dust-influenced character that the benchland hillside's specific clay and loam soils consistently produce in this Bordeaux variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Merlot
Reserve Merlot
Rutherford / Rutherford Hill Estate
Rutherford Hill's most age-worthy Merlot expression — Reserve cave-aged Merlot from the estate's most carefully selected benchland hillside blocks, showing the additional concentration and structural depth that the most precisely identified Rutherford Hill vineyard sources and extended cave aging consistently produce.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Rutherford / Rutherford Hill Estate
Rutherford Hill's cave-aged Bordeaux alternative — estate Rutherford Bench Cabernet Sauvignon from the hilltop property's benchland terrain, warm, food-compatible, and produced with the same Terlato family quality conviction and 36,000-square-foot cave aging program that defines every aspect of the hillside estate production.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Chardonnay
Napa Valley / Rutherford Hill Estate
Rutherford Hill's estate white flagship — Napa Valley Chardonnay from the hilltop benchland estate providing the most food-first and daily-accessible white wine counterpart to the cave-aged Merlot and Cabernet program on the most scenically dramatic hilltop in the Rutherford wine corridor.
Estate
★★★★☆
Tasting Experiences
Book on Tock →Cave Tour & Oak Grove Tasting
Daily cave tour through 36,000 square feet of Napa Valley's largest hand-carved aging cave system followed by hilltop tasting of Rutherford Bench Merlot and Cabernet with panoramic Rutherford valley views from the oak grove picnic grounds. One of the most scenically complete and cave-authentic daily tasting experiences in the Napa Valley.
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