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William Hill Estate Winery

Napa Valley · Mount Veeder · Mount Veeder AVA
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Hours
Daily 10am–5pm
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Phone
(707) 224-6565
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Tasting Fee
From $30
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Walk-ins welcome
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Est.
1974

About William Hill Estate Winery

William "Bill" Hill, a Stanford-educated Oklahoma native who caught the wine bug traveling through Burgundy, moved to Napa Valley in 1974 and founded his namesake winery in 1978 on 200 acres of the Silverado Bench. In a landmark 1983 blind tasting at San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel, William Hill's 1979 and 1980 wines outscored First Growth Bordeaux estates including Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Latour, and Château Lafite-Rothschild.

Hill sold the winery in 1992, and it has since changed hands several times; Gallo has owned the property since 2007. As of June 2024, the William Hill tasting room has permanently closed, though production of William Hill wines continues; Bill Hill himself still owns nearby Broken Rock Vineyard, supplying fruit to his family's Prime Solum label.

William Hill's 1978 Silverado Bench estate, whose wines once beat First Growth Bordeaux in a blind tasting, now Gallo-owned with a closed tasting room.
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Beat Bordeaux's First Growths blind,in a 1983 San Francisco tasting, William Hill's Napa Valley wines outscored Château Mouton Rothschild, Latour, Haut-Brion, Margaux, and Lafite-Rothschild among 200 tasters.
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The founder's next project sits nearby,Bill Hill still owns the 96-acre Broken Rock Vineyard on Atlas Peak Road, supplying grapes to premium producers and his own family label, Prime Solum.
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A tasting room now closed,as of June 2024, William Hill's public tasting room has permanently shut down, though the winery, now Gallo-owned, continues producing wine under the name.
"William Hill's 1978 Silverado Bench estate, whose wines once beat First Growth Bordeaux in a blind tasting; the tasting room closed in 2024."
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