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Spottswoode Estate Vineyard

Sub-AVA · St. Helena

Further reading: Producer's own site

verified · producer's own site

Editorial profile

Spottswoode is a family-owned estate on the western edge of St. Helena, in Napa Valley, where the Novak family has grown winegrapes since 1972 and made its own wine since 1982. The Estate Vineyard sits on alluvial clay loam off the Sulphur Creek fan, cooled by maritime breezes funneling between Spring Mountain and the Mayacamas, and has been farmed organically since 1985 (CCOF certified 1992), now also biodynamically and regeneratively certified.

Cabernet Sauvignon is the estate's core: the Estate Cabernet Sauvignon anchors the lineup, with Lyndenhurst drawing on the estate plus other family-owned Napa Valley vineyards for a wider expression of the variety. Two Field Book bottlings, launched in 2007, draw on individual heritage vineyard sites, and Spottswoode has produced Sauvignon Blanc since 1984.

Facts read from spottswoode.com

What's on file

Address

1902 Madrona Avenue, St. Helena, CA 94574

Where it's registered

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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

6.3
5.0%
21.0%
available water
16.8cm
depth to restriction
155cm

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

6 of 6 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.