About Smith-Madrone Vineyards & Winery
Stuart and Charles Smith's 1971 Spring Mountain Riesling and Cabernet estate — the most Riesling-personally-committed and German-variety-seriously-pro
Smith-Madrone Vineyards & Winery is the most Riesling-seriously-committed and personally brother-partnership-conducted wine estate on Spring Mountain.
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Smith-Madrone Vineyards &Smith-Madrone Vineyards & Winery is the most Riesling-seriously-committed and personally brother-partnership-conducted wine estate on Spring Mountain.
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Stuart and CharlesStuart and Charles Smith — who planted their first vines on Spring Mountain Road in 1971 when the western Napa Valley ridge had no formal wine appellation identity and when California Riesling had even less commercial recognition than it does today — have maintained their twin-brother farming partnership and their conviction that Spring Mountain terrain produces Riesling of world-class quality for over 50 years of continuous personal family farming.
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The Spring MountainThe Spring Mountain Riesling program — which Wine Spectator has recognized as among California's finest and most outstanding Riesling expressions — reflects the Smith brothers' conviction that the volcanic rhyolite and ash soils, significant elevation, and cool-morning growing conditions of their Spring Mountain estate create growing conditions more similar to German Mosel-Saar-Ruwer Riesling terrain than any other easily identifiable California growing location.
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Featured Wines
Riesling
Spring Mountain Riesling
Spring Mountain / Smith-Madrone Estate
California's most seriously Smith-brother-committed Riesling — Spring Mountain volcanic estate Riesling from 50+ years of continuous twin-brother farming conviction earning Wine Spectator recognition as one of California's most outstanding Riesling expressions from the most German-variety-personally-committed and volcanic-spring-mountain-specifically-Riesling-terroir-identified estate in the entire Napa Valley.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Spring Mountain Chardonnay
Spring Mountain / Smith-Madrone Estate
Smith-Madrone's mineral volcanic white alternative — Spring Mountain estate Chardonnay from the same volcanic rhyolite terrain that produces the Wine Spectator-praised Riesling, showing the mineral, food-first, naturally acid-structured character that 50+ years of Smith brother volcanic Spring Mountain farming produces in California's most popular white variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon
Spring Mountain / Smith-Madrone Estate
Smith-Madrone's volcanic mountain red complement — Spring Mountain estate Cabernet Sauvignon from 50+ years of twin-brother volcanic rhyolite farming showing the structural depth and mineral concentration that the most Riesling-personally-committed Spring Mountain estate produces in Napa Valley's most commercially important red variety alongside the more personally prioritized Riesling program.
Estate
★★★★☆
Tasting Experiences
Book on Tock →Riesling Specialist Mountain Appointment
Appointment with California's most Riesling-seriously-committed estate — Smith-Madrone Spring Mountain Riesling (Wine Spectator outstanding), Chardonnay, and Cabernet from Stuart and Charles Smith's 50+ year twin-brother volcanic Spring Mountain farming partnership. The most genuine and intellectually serious California Riesling education available by appointment in the Napa Valley.
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