Far Niente
Sub-AVA · Oakville
verified · TTB List of Permittees
Editorial profile
Far Niente is an Oakville estate winery with a history dating to 1885, focused on two varietals: Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. Its Napa Valley Chardonnay, first produced in 1981, is the winery's benchmark wine, made in a cool-climate style intended to age.
Its Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon anchors the estate's red wine program, and select older vintages are re-released in limited quantities as the Cave Collection, aged in the estate's historic caves. Far Niente is part of the Far Niente Wine Estates family, which also includes Nickel & Nickel, Bella Union, Post & Beam, EnRoute, and Dolce, but its own winery and wines are the subject of this profile.
- Winemaker
- not stated on fetched pages
Facts read from farniente.com
What's on file
founded
as stated by the producer
Address
1350 ACACIA DR
Varieties
Where it's registered
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The ground it sits on
Sub-AVA · Oakville
6.3
pH, 1:1 water
18.0cm
, whole profile
158cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 37 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 26.3%
- 13.8%
- 11.1%
- 10.4%
- 7.3%
37 map units · soil described over 96.9% of the region’s area · 9.8% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 31% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Wines
Cave Collection Cabernet Sauvignon
library re-release of the estate Cabernet Sauvignon
3 of 3 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.