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Editorial profile
Markham Vineyards traces its stone cellar to 1879, when Bordeaux-born Jean Laurent built it into one of Napa Valley's first wineries; the Markham name itself dates to 1977, when Arizona businessman Bruce Markham bought 230 acres of Napa vineyard along with the old cellar. Four decades on, Markham is built around Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot — Merlot, introduced in 1980, became the house's signature — farmed across four estate vineyards spanning Calistoga, Yountville, Oak Knoll and Oakville.
The portfolio runs from a Napa Valley tier (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Petite Sirah, and the Bordeaux-blend Altruist) down through single-district bottlings under the District Series, single-vineyard Marked Parcels wines, and an Icon Series topped by The Character and The Philanthropist, both Yountville-designate reds.
- Winemaker
- Kimberlee Nicholls
Facts read from markhamvineyards.com
What's on file
Address
2812 ST HELENA HWY N
Where it's registered
Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.
- Principal2812 ST HELENA HWY N, ST HELENA
The ground it sits on
Sub-AVA · St. Helena
6.3
pH, 1:1 water
16.8cm
, whole profile
155cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 41 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 22.4%
- 22.0%
- 16.8%
- 11.4%
- 5.9%
41 map units · soil described over 97.9% of the region’s area · 3.8% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 37% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Wines
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
blend · Napa Valley
94% Cabernet Sauvignon 5% Petit Verdot 1% Cabernet Franc per the producer.
blend · Napa Valley
94% Merlot 4% Cabernet Sauvignon 2% Malbec drawn from the estate's Calistoga Yountville and Oak Knoll vineyards; the winery's flagship varietal since 1980.
From Oak Knoll and Carneros fruit.
blend · Napa Valley
85% Merlot 6% Cabernet Sauvignon 4% Malbec 4% Petit Verdot 1% Cabernet Franc.
Marked Parcels Right Side Red Blend
blend · Yountville
52% Merlot 37% Cabernet Franc 11% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Yountville Ranch Cabernet Franc
blend · Yountville
82% Cabernet Franc 13% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Marked Parcels Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Selection
From the Kelham Vineyard.
blend · Yountville
55% Merlot 33% Cabernet Sauvignon 6% Malbec 4% Petit Verdot 2% Cabernet Franc; Icon Series.
Cabernet Sauvignon · Yountville
Icon Series.
From the Little Cannon Estate Vineyard.
Library selection.
16 of 16 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.