The Vault

Palate of big well centered dark fruit with black cherry and black currant flavors.  Ripe grape tannins create a powerful wine that is finessed with oak.

The 2003 Hill Family Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend of mountain Cabernet from Soda Canyon, and valley floor Cabernet from the Beau Terre Vineyard and from a few other small select vineyards.

For the 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon, we were able to combine the beautiful plush fruit elements of the “Beau Terre Vineyard” in Napa Valley’s Oak Knoll District with mountain fruit from the Astrella y Terra vineyard

Deep, ripe, cassis and blackberry, intriguing black licorice and briary garrigue aromas; almost a molasses intensity of depth.

The 2006 Hill Family Cabernet Sauvignon combines the best of the Hill Family’s Beau Terre Vineyard in the Oak Knoll District, with its plush black cherry boysenberry fruit, and the Atlas Peak Cabernet, with its finesse and tannic structure and its hints of sage and native brambly character.

Dark deep fruit nose, with black licorice and cassis. A classic Cabernet Sauvignon palate from Napa, very long fruit flavors of blackberry, cherry and even a little cranberry, let you know that the wine is still young.

Bright blackberry and boysenberry fruit, layered with the darker licorice of the Petit Verdot and the blueberry of the Malbec.

This 2004 Merlot showcases the Hill Family’s “Beau Terre” Vineyard in the Oak Knoll
District of the Napa Valley.

This 2004 Merlot showcases the Hill Family’s “Beau Terre” Vineyard in the Oak Knoll District of the Napa Valley.

This 2006 Hill Family Merlot combines the best of the Hill Family’s Beau Terre Vineyard in the Oak Knoll District, with its plush black cherry and raspberry fruit, and the Beau Terre Atlas Peak Cabernet with its fine classic sage and brambly character.

This 2007 has the balanced, richly textured structure that Merlot can
develop in the best years.

Hill Family Estate Origin is a Bordeaux blend representing the finest wine possible for the vintage, using the family run vineyards in Napa as the blending material.

Lovely dark raspberry and blackberry aroma, surrounded by coffee caramel
notes and a little violet vanilla, linked to tannins.

Origin is our chance to create the best blend possible from the 2006 vintage. It allows us to use many small select lots made from specific sites farmed by the Hill Family that fall outside of the flagship Beau Terre Vineyard.

The final blend shimmers and forms complex layers that will grow and improve for years to come.

The 2008 Origin tastes young and vigorous, with a dark deep nose swirling with chocolate and vanilla, opening to black cherry and a hint of mint.