Notes from Hirondelle

Three figures appear somewhere on every bottle we make, from the everyday Table Wine red blend to the Yettalil. Here's where they came from and why they still matter.  

"Bordeaux-style" isn't a place or a rule, it's a family of grapes and a restrained, balanced way of making wine. Here's what the term means and how we apply it to our wine.

The Silverado Trail isn't its own appellation. It's a road through five of them. Here's the geology behind the wineries that line it, and the ground Clos du Val has farmed since 1972.  

Our Estate Cabernet Franc from Stags Leap District won Best in Show and 97 points at the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards. Here is why a grape almost no one bottles alone earned that from three crit...

Every year, we gather for our Harvest Farmers Market to celebrate the farmers, artisans, and producers of our beloved Napa Valley region. 

The son of Chateau Lafite Rothschild's technical director, founding winemaker Bernard Portet grew up tasting a new vintage every year of his life. Bordeaux winemaking has never chased maximum ripen...

Long before manicured vineyards adorned the valley, the Silverado Trail cut through pastureland. Tracing a much older path through Napa Valley, the Silverado Trail connected the valley to silver mi...