About The Hess Collection Winery
Swiss entrepreneur Donald Hess's Mount Veeder art collection estate — the most comprehensive fine art museum inside a functioning California winery ho
The Hess Collection Winery is the only Napa Valley wine estate that functions simultaneously as a fully operational internationally recognized fine art museum.
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The Hess CollectionThe Hess Collection Winery is the only Napa Valley wine estate that functions simultaneously as a fully operational internationally recognized fine art museum.
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Swiss entrepreneur DonaldSwiss entrepreneur Donald Hess — who has spent 40 years building one of the world's most significant private contemporary art collections — established the Mount Veeder estate in 1978 and opened his private art collection to the public in the 1989 Hess Collection gallery, creating a wine estate where visitors encounter major works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Frank Stella, Georg Baselitz, and over 150 other internationally exhibited contemporary artists while exploring the winery building.
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The Mount VeederThe Mount Veeder volcanic mountain setting — on Redwood Road above the Napa Valley floor, where volcanic basalt and rhyolite soils produce Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay of volcanic mineral intensity — provides the agricultural foundation for a wine program that Wine Spectator has consistently scored at 90–95 points.
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Featured Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon
Mount Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon
Mount Veeder / Hess Estate
The Hess Collection's volcanic mountain flagship — Mount Veeder Cabernet from the volcanic basalt and rhyolite estate terrain consistently earning 91–95 points from Wine Spectator for the concentrated, age-worthy mountain mineral character that Swiss entrepreneur Donald Hess's 40-year Mount Veeder farming and art collection conviction produces.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
The Lion Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley Estate
Hess Collection's prestige Cabernet — The Lion from the estate's most carefully selected Mount Veeder and Napa Valley blocks, the most ambitious and critically celebrated expression of what the volcanic mountain wine and fine art estate produces at its highest quality tier.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Chardonnay
Monterey / Napa Valley Estate
Hess Collection's estate white flagship — Chardonnay from Monterey and Napa Valley sourcing showing the food-first, balanced character that Donald Hess's 40-year California winemaking conviction produces in California's most popular white variety for the daily walk-in art museum wine estate's most broadly accessible white tasting.
Estate
★★★★☆
Syrah
Small Block Syrah
Mount Veeder / Hess Estate
Hess Collection's most distinctive red varietal expression — Small Block Syrah from the Mount Veeder volcanic terrain showing what the same volcanic basalt and rhyolite soils that produce the flagship Cabernet deliver in this Northern Rhône variety when Donald Hess's 40-year mountain estate conviction produces a genuinely individual volcanic mountain Syrah.
Estate
★★★★☆
Tasting Experiences
Book on Tock →Art Museum & Mountain Tasting
Daily walk-in at the only Napa Valley wine estate that functions as a full fine art museum — 150+ works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Frank Stella, and Georg Baselitz alongside Mount Veeder Cabernet at 91–95 points in the most culturally complete and family-friendly daily wine and art experience in the valley.
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