As the 2022 Harvest approaches, we sat down with our Winemaker, Carmel Greenberg and our Viticulture Manager, Ryan Decker to get the inside scoop on a day in the life and find out how they survive harvest season. CARMEL Q: DO…
Remember when our winemaking team began blending sessions for our 2021 wines? Since then, winemaker Carmel Greenberg and assistant winemaker J.P. Pierce have tasted through various potential blends made from barrel samples. They started with our flagship Napa Valley Cabernet,…
With the 2022 growing season well underway, our vines are steadily growing and berries are just beginning to form. It’s an exciting time in the vineyards as we set the stage for harvest. This week, our vineyard crew is…
Blending is a quintessential part of Clos du Val's signature winemaking style, but the mechanics of blending upwards of 1000 barrels at a time is not as simple it may sound. A few weeks ago, we talked to…
You’ll often hear us talk about our Hirondelle Vineyard in Stags Leap District (the home of our winery since 1972 and the site of the Hirondelle House), but we also farm another estate property just a few miles north in the Yountville…
50 years ago, an entrepreneurial American living in France challenged a young French winemaker to travel the globe and find the best vineyard site in the world. After two years of adventures, that winemaker found a little corner of the…
Happy Earth Day! In our first ever weekly update, Olav showed us the beginnings of a major landscaping project, focused on replanting trees and other vegetation on our estate with more drought-tolerant species. This project will help us continue to…
It feels like just yesterday that our vines were putting out their first growth of the season, but our vineyards have already been transformed by an influx of bright green of new shoots and leaves. Around this time of year,…
It’s not easy to imagine today, when blended wines seem to have a near monopoly over the pinnacle positions of Napa Valley winery portfolios, but proprietary blends haven’t always reigned supreme here. When Clos du Val was founded in 1972,…
It’s no secret that winemaking is a hands-on process, but these last few weeks, we’ve been watching in awe (and maybe just a little jealousy) as our winemaker, Carmel Greenberg, tastes each and every barrel of our young 2021 wines. …
