THE VINTNER COLLECTION
One extraordinary partnership, 10 once-in-a-lifetime wines.
Ten prestigious Napa wineries have joined together to create the first cross-winery collection in Napa Valley’s history. We formed this partnership to help raise the final donations needed to complete all ten sections of the 47-mile Napa Valley Vine Trail. We are asking you to join us by adding this collection to your cellar.
Just 800 of these rare collections were produced. Each of these remarkable wineries crafted three barrels of rare and unique custom cabernet sauvignon. Each is presented in an artful Vine Trail bottle that, when featured together, form the entire vision of the 47-mile trail in 10-sections and this iconic Vine Trail Vintner Collection.
Your donation to the Napa Valley Vine Trail supports the full mission to construct the remaining miles and adds a rare wine collection to your cellar. The 800 donors through the Napa Valley Vine Trail Collection will raise over $3 million dollars to complete the Vine Trail through the Oakville and Rutherford corridor. Already hugely popular on its open sections, the completed Vine Trail will give you the chance to walk, run, bike and most of all, experience the entire length of the Valley Napa at a slower pace, at terroir level. With your support, you will enjoy the best of Napa Valley Cabernet when the Yountville to Saint Helena projected is finished.
10 rare wines. 47 miles. A hand in Napa Valley’s future.
Begun in 2008, the Napa Valley Vine Trail is a dedicated walking and cycling trail that will run the length of the valley. The 47-mile Vine Trail will meander pass more than 80 wineries and vineyards as it winds north from the Vallejo Ferry Terminal, through American Canyon, the Rail Arts District in Napa, and northward along the vineyards of Oak Knoll, Yountville, Oakville, Rutherford, Saint Helena and Calistoga.
This project is a true partnership. Thirty Napa Valley organizations representing landowner, commercial, environmental, health, education, civic groups and winery interests are participating with the single goal of bringing this generational project to completion. The Vintner Collection wine, bottles, corks, caps, labels, wine storage and ground shipping are all donated.
Your contribution matched, three times over.
Your dollars are not alone. Every dollar contributed is used to leverage nearly three dollars in federal, state and local grants.
The first two bottles of the Collection were released in 2020, five more were added at the end of 2021, with the last 3 bottles released in 2023 and 2024. Today, with your donation, you receive all 10 bottles. An ideal gift to the wine lover in your life, wines ship seasonally in the spring and fall. The collection includes:
2018 Vineyard 29
The Vintage
The 2018 growing season was near perfect. It began with mild spring weather and temperatures throughout Napa remained steady and warm during the majority of summer and fall growing season. The resulting wines are incredibly smooth and polished, with magnificent texture and color.
Tasting Notes
Our 2018 Vineyard 29 Vintner Collection wine offers fragrant violet and perfumed aromas with cocoa powder, chocolate covered blueberries and crème de cassis on the nose. Full bodied, mouth-watering acidity, a touch of fresh tobacco leaf, hints of wet slate, and a dark blue and black fruit-driven profile fill out the midpalate and lead to juicy, supple, fine grain tannins and a long, drawn out finish.
Barrel Aging
Aged 22 months in 67% new, 33% once used thin stave, tight grain French oak barrels.
Varietal
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol
14.8%
2018 Alpha Omega
The Vintage
The 2018 growing season was near perfect. It began with mild spring weather and temperatures throughout Napa remained steady and warm during the majority of summer and fall growing season. The resulting wines are incredibly smooth and polished, with magnificent texture and color.
Tasting Notes
Sunshine Valley Vineyard is in a cooler climate site allowing the grapes time to ripen slowly and build aromatics and tannins harmoniously and in balance with the sugars. The deep soils provide wonderful complexity and structure. When it comes to blending, the plethora of different clones planted on various rootstocks affords the Alpha Omega winemaking team a rich palate to create complex, layered wines such as this unique 2018 Sunshine Valley Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon.
Barrel Aging
22 months in French oak, 80% new, 20% 1-year old. 85% barrel fermented; 15% stainless steel tank fermented.
Varietal
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol
14.5%
2019 Spottswoode
The Vintage
The 2019 vintage began with a wet spring bringing three inches of rain in May. In response to the late rains, our vineyards received diligent attention to control vigorous vine growth. A long Indian summer followed with mild weather, allowing the fruit to ripen. The long picking windows bore fruit with beautiful freshness at optimal ripeness. The resulting wines are exceptionally elegant.
Tasting Notes
Our 2019 Spottswoode Estate Vine Trail Cabernet Sauvignon is a specially crafted expression of our Estate vineyard. Spottswoode’s “Bike Path Blend” exudes a dynamic combination of bright red raspberry, black cherry, and fresh blackberry along with cocoa powder, violets, and graphite. Juicy and tense on the palate with classic, fine tannins, lively energy, its finish is full of purity and precision.
Barrel Aging
20 months, 57% New French Oak
Varietal
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol
13.5%
2019 Whitehall Lane
The Vintage
The 2019 vintage began with a wet spring bringing three inches of rain in May. In response to the late rains, our vineyards received diligent attention to control vigorous vine growth. A long Indian summer followed with mild weather, allowing the fruit to ripen. The long picking windows bore fruit with beautiful freshness at optimal ripeness. The resulting wines are exceptionally elegant.
Tasting Notes
This 2019 Whitehall Lane Cabernet Sauvignon is a classic offering with enticing aromas of blackberry, cassis and toasted croissant. This bold wine is full-bodied with long, plush tannins and flavors of rich blue and black fruits, vanillin and cedar. It’s beautifully balanced with ample fruit and a long finish.
Barrel Aging
20 months in barrel, unfined unfiltered, 65% New French Oak
Varietal
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol
14.8%
2019 Tamber Bey
The Vintage
The 2019 vintage began with a wet spring bringing three inches of rain in May. In response to the late rains, our vineyards received diligent attention to control vigorous vine growth. A long Indian summer followed with mild weather, allowing the fruit to ripen. The long picking windows bore fruit with beautiful freshness at optimal ripeness. The resulting wines are exceptionally elegant.
Tasting Notes
The 2019 Tamber Bey Cabernet Sauvignon is from our Oakville Estate Vineyard. Characteristic of this site, it leads with bursting aromatics of crushed blackberry, gravel, lavender, licorice, and mint. The palate is dense and pliant, dominated by a dark core of blackberry and black cherry jam. Mocha, graphite, clove, and espresso add layers of depth and complexity, and are nicely balanced by the wine’s natural freshness and energy.
Barrel Aging
19 months in 70% new French oak
Varietal
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol
14.7%
2019 Crocker & Starr
The Vintage
The 2019 vintage began with a wet spring bringing three inches of rain in May. In response to the late rains, our vineyards received diligent attention to control vigorous vine growth. A long Indian summer followed with mild weather, allowing the fruit to ripen. The long picking windows bore fruit with beautiful freshness at optimal ripeness. The resulting wines are exceptionally elegant.
Tasting Notes
The 2019 Crocker & Starr Estate Vine Trail Cabernet Sauvignon is an exclusive blend of our highest quality blocks, which tells the story of our soil and history. This wine is a true expression of our site, boasting phenomenal components of blackberry, cassis, cocoa powder, dried flowers, and toasted sandalwood spice. Balanced, seamless, and incredibly elegant, this blend brings fullbodied richness with finesse and purity of fruit.
Barrel Aging
24 months, 24% New French Oak
Varietal
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol
14.4%
2019 Newton Vineyard
The Vintage
The 2019 vintage began with a wet spring bringing three inches of rain in May. In response to the late rains, our vineyards received diligent attention to control vigorous vine growth. A long Indian summer followed with mild weather, allowing the fruit to ripen. The long picking windows bore fruit with beautiful freshness at optimal ripeness. The resulting wines are exceptionally elegant.
Tasting Notes
At Newton, we make wines that are a pure expression of our unique mountain terroir. This 2019 Newton Cabernet Sauvignon is produced in a small batch of three barrels, exclusively for the Vine Trail Vintner Collection. Crafted entirely from fruit grown on one of our rare hillside vineyards in the Yountville appellation, the wine is unfiltered and barrel aged for 18 months. The contrasting soil profile and diverse range of exposures and temperatures bestow the wine with ample, fruit forward aromatics, enhanced by a rich plushness and density in the mid palate, finishing with a silky, mouth-filling structure.
Barrel Aging
18 months. 67% New French Oak
Varietal
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol
14.5%
2021 Gemstone
The Vintage
The grapes were hand-harvested, double-sorted, and cold-soaked in stainless steel for a week before beginning whole berry fermentation for 18 days. The wine went through secondary fermentation in French oak barrels, assuring a balanced integration of fruit and oak. Barrel aged for 20 months in 80% new French oak from esteemed French cooperages including Baron, Darnajou, and Taransaud. Bottled unfiltered and unfined.
Tasting Notes
Our 2021 Gemstone Vineyard Vintner Collection Cabernet Sauvignon showcases our finest vineyard blocks and diverse clonal selection from our Yountville Estate. A true expression of our unique site, the wine is powerful and voluptuous, with notes of cassis, blackberry, mocha, dark chocolate and tobacco. Full-bodied, the palate delivers fine-grained, silky tannins with a vibrant finish.
Barrel Aging
100% barrel fermented, 20 months in 80% New French Oak
Varietal
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol
14.7%
2021 Rocca
The Vintage
The wine was hand-harvested across multiple small picks from September to mid-October 2021. Hand sorted and destemmed, the wine was fermented in stainless steel for 15 days before being drained and pressed to large format New French Oak (50%) where the wine aged for approximately 18 months prior to being bottled without fining or filtration.
Tasting Notes
Planted on rocky volcanic soils in the heart of Coombsville, our 2021 Collinetta Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a wonderful representation of an outstanding growing season in the Napa Valley. Bright red fruit is complemented by classic Coombsville notes of tobacco, bay and clove. Elegant, layered and complex, this wine offers immediate pleasure upon release but promises future rewards for those who can wait.
Barrel Aging
Stainless steel open tops, 18 months in 50% New French Oak
Varietal
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol
14.5%
2021 Silver Oak
The Vintage
The 2021 vintage unfolded as a tale of subtlety and finesse, following in the footsteps of its predecessor with a dry winter preamble. As the season gracefully progressed, the weather remained steadfast, nurturing an environment conducive to harmonious growth and maturation. A gentle embrace of warmth in the waning days of summer furthered the journey towards ripeness and depth.
Tasting Notes
Ultra-classic notes of cassis and blackberry are the wine’s calling cards, rendered with the opulent, pulpy ripeness characteristic of Napa and burnished by heady suggestions of tobacco and spice. These warm flavors are woven into a fine, intricate structure with palpable density. Tannins are beefy, but fine-grained, sweet in their chewiness. Polished and buffed to be drinkable upon the release, the wine’s concentration and brawny structure give it the musculature to age for decades.
Barrel Aging
100% barrel fermented, 24 Months in 100% New French Oak
Varietal
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol
14.7%
This remarkable assembly of wines may only be acquired as a full 10-bottle collection. For tax purposes, $4,000 of your generous $5,000 donation qualifies as a charitable contribution to the Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition. All funds raised go directly to the full mission of the coalition.
Join us in this rare opportunity to own this superb collection of wines while helping propel the Napa Valley Vine Trail complete our mission.
Thank you to our generous donors who made the Vintner Collection possible:
Alpha Omega, Anonymous, Aperture Media, Bergin Screen Printing & Etching, Chrome Visual, Crocker & Starr, Cultivate Systems, Gemstone, J.A.M. PR, Erika Jacome, Landmark Graphics/Cellotape, Newton, PortoCork, Rocca, Roger J. Trinchero Family Foundation, SaverGlass, Silver Oak, Mark & Pamela Smithers, Spottswoode, Tamber Bey, Vineyard 29, Western Wine Services, Wineshipping, Whitehall Lane, Sophie Woo, Dave Woodside
As always, thanks to our premier sponsors, Napa Valley Vintners, Visit Napa Valley, and the Clif Family Foundation for their support.