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Grgich Hills Estate

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Editorial profile

Grgich Hills Estate is a Rutherford winery founded on July 4, 1977, when Miljenko "Mike" Grgich partnered with Austin Hills of the Hills Bros. Coffee family to break ground on their own winery. A year earlier, Grgich had made the 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay that took first place over top white Burgundies at the 1976 "Judgment of Paris" tasting in Paris — the event that established California's international reputation for fine wine.

The estate farms five of its own Napa Valley vineyards (Yountville, Rutherford, Calistoga, Carneros and American Canyon), organized into three tiers: broad, blended Napa Valley Selections; small-lot, single-vineyard Miljenko's Selections; and the most limited Legacy Selections, including the old-vine Paradise Block Cabernet Sauvignon from vines planted in 1959 and a Chardonnay made each year as an homage to the 1976 tasting. Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Zinfandel and Sauvignon Blanc anchor the range, alongside smaller-production Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Petite Sirah, Rosé, Gewürztraminer and Riesling bottlings.

Facts read from grgich.com

What's on file

1977

founded

as stated by the producer

Address

1829 ST HELENA HWY

Wines

19 of 19 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.