About VHR Vine Hill Ranch
The Pelissa family's Oakville Vine Hill Ranch estate — a historic benchland Oakville property producing estate Cabernet Sauvignon from one of Napa Val
VHR Vine Hill Ranch is the Pelissa family's estate label for one of Napa Valley's most historically significant and critically recognized Oakville vineyard properties.
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VHR Vine HillVHR Vine Hill Ranch is the Pelissa family's estate label for one of Napa Valley's most historically significant and critically recognized Oakville vineyard properties.
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The Vine HillThe Vine Hill Ranch site — on the Silverado Trail in Oakville, a benchland property whose specific gravelly loam and clay soils have been identified by multiple generations of Napa Valley winemakers as producing Cabernet Sauvignon of exceptional concentration and age-worthiness — supplied fruit to a roster of California's most acclaimed wineries for decades before the Pelissa family established the VHR estate label in 2010.
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The decision toThe decision to produce estate wines under the VHR label was driven by the family's conviction that the Vine Hill Ranch vineyard's specific character deserved to be expressed directly rather than disappearing into blends produced under other estates' names.
"The Pelissa family's Oakville Vine Hill Ranch estate — a historic benchland Oakville property producing estate Cabernet "
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Featured Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon
Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Oakville / Vine Hill Ranch Estate
The VHR estate flagship from one of Oakville's most historically significant benchland sites — Vine Hill Ranch Cabernet consistently earning 95–98 points from Wine Advocate for the gravelly loam concentration and age-worthy complexity that Thomas Rivers Brown's minimal-intervention winemaking extracts from decades of Pelissa family Oakville benchland stewardship.
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★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Oakville / Vine Hill Ranch Reserve
VHR's most ambitious and age-worthy expression — Reserve Cabernet from the Vine Hill Ranch estate's most carefully identified Oakville benchland blocks, the most concentrated and collectible statement of what the Pelissa family's historic Silverado Trail vineyard property and Thomas Rivers Brown's Schrader-caliber precision consistently produce.
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★★★★☆
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Book on Tock →Historic Benchland Appointment
Private appointment at one of Oakville's most historically significant and recently estate-labelled benchland properties — Vine Hill Ranch estate Cabernet at 95–99 points from Thomas Rivers Brown's minimal-intervention winemaking on the Pelissa family's landmark Silverado Trail site.
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