If you believe that wine has a great part in human history and if you happen to like Cabernet Sauvignon visit Beringer (http://www.beringer.co...) and stay...

Quintessa was just gorgeous and a wonderful experience. It is a very personalized tour and tasting. Each couple had a private tour guide. Our guide was...

My overall experience of Quintessa is not very high. I took my gf here for her birthday, and what you pay for is totally not worth it. We had a private...

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If you want the "real" napa valley, dont belly up at a bar with 35 other people. Find some place intimate. If you want to learn about wine, don't read it in the pamphlet some places hand you, but listen to a wine specialist as they take you step by step through the process and the characteristics of the wine. Witness the gorgeous valley not from a fancy flat screen tv but by hiking up to a private terrace with vineyards beyond the eye's reach.

Find Quintessa. Family run, quaint, aesthetically pleasing... its worth the $$ and you wont be disappointed!

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The caves are impressive, having been hewn out of solid rock and which provide storage to over 3000 barrels in perfect conditions. They only produce one wine and the grapes are all grown onsite. It is a blend of predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot with Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Carmenere also showing. It is really a great wine and on tasting gave primary red fruit nose with blueberries, cassis, ripe tannins, vanilla, palate is dark fruits, oak & chocolate. This was the complexity I sought at Phelps but found it here at Quintessa. At $130 it presents better value than Insignia. They also let us taste a ?93 non produced version of the wine and this showed how this great wine ages. It?s a pity it?s not available as it had mellowed into a true US Cabernet with deep dark fruit.