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Editorial profile
Realm Cellars is a Napa Valley producer built around Cabernet Sauvignon, split between proprietary-named blends and single-vineyard estate wines. The flagship, The Bard, is a Cabernet Sauvignon-based Napa Valley blend that draws from Coombsville to Calistoga, its supporting varietals — Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petite Sirah and occasionally Charbono — shifting by vintage; sibling proprietary wines The Tempest, The Absurd, Fidelio and Heavenly Questions each carry their own name and label story.
The estate program includes Houyi Vineyard, an estate single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon acquired near the top of Pritchard Hill; Moonracer, from an estate vineyard on the Silverado Trail currently being redeveloped and replanted; Farella, from a partner vineyard in the Coombsville AVA; and Hartwell XX, an estate Cabernet Sauvignon from a small parcel atop Wappo Hill on Realm's Stags Leap District property. A trio of Beckstoffer single-vineyard Cabernets — To Kalon (Oakville), Dr. Crane (St. Helena) and Bourn (west St. Helena, being replanted to mostly Cabernet Sauvignon with some old-vine Petite Sirah) — rounds out the single-vineyard tier. Several bottlings' precise varietal percentages are not disclosed on the winery's own pages.
Facts read from realmcellars.com
What's on file
Address
5795 SILVERADO TRL
Where it's registered
Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.
- Principal5795 SILVERADO TRL, NAPA
- Also bonded1171 TUBBS LN, CALISTOGA · Calistoga
The ground it sits on
Sub-AVA · Stags Leap District
6.2
pH, 1:1 water
15.5cm
, whole profile
144cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 26 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 31.5%
- 15.9%
- 12.3%
- 7.5%
- 6.8%
26 map units · soil described over 97.9% of the region’s area · 9.8% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 44% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Wines
blend · Napa Valley
Cabernet Sauvignon is always the base; the supporting varietals and their proportions vary by vintage.
A blend of three grape varietals that first came together from one vineyard in 2002; the fetched page does not name the grapes.
Made "unbound by varietal requirements, vineyard designations, or other traditional notions," per the winery.
The fetched page discusses the label's artwork rather than the wine's composition.
Named for Tianwen, a classical Chinese poem; the fetched page does not state the blend.
Estate wine from Moonracer Vineyard on Silverado Trail, which is being redeveloped and replanted.
Cabernet Sauvignon · Napa Valley
The estate's single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from Houyi Vineyard, near the top of Pritchard Hill.
From Farella Vineyard in the Coombsville AVA; composition not stated on the fetched page.
Cabernet Sauvignon · Stags Leap District
Estate Cabernet Sauvignon from a two-acre parcel atop Wappo Hill on Realm's Stags Leap District estate.
Single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from the Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard.
Cabernet Sauvignon · St. Helena
Single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from the Beckstoffer Dr. Crane Vineyard.
blend
From west St. Helena; the vineyard is being replanted primarily to Cabernet Sauvignon alongside rows of 60-year-old head-trained Petite Sirah.
12 of 12 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.