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The Ranch & Vineyards

Hillside vineyards on the eastern edge of the Napa Valley, between St. Helena and Rutherford — farmed by one family since 1955.

The property was homesteaded in 1878: a hundred and sixty acres, a quarter mile high and a mile wide. Only twenty-three of those acres are planted to vineyard — the rest we've kept as wild woodland.

The Lower and Los Ricos Vineyards lie at the west end of the property, next to the Heitz Ranch, at about 600 feet — the Lower Vineyard looks out over tiny Spring Valley and across the central Napa Valley, roughly along Zinfandel Lane. Moving east and up, the property flattens at the top of the hill, 850 feet up, where you'll find The Brothers Vineyard and the Blending Blocks. The Lost Orchard sits at the property's east end, just before the land drops into Conn Valley.

Stewardship

Twenty-three acres farmed, a hundred and thirty-seven left wild. How we think about the land.

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The Brothers Vineyard

The Brothers Vineyard is home to 11 acres of Cabernet Sauvignon perched at the top of the mountains along the east ridge of the Napa Valley.

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The Lost Orchard

In a tiny hilltop valley surrounded by oak woodlands

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Los Ricos Vineyard

A steep one acre block at the southwestern corner of the property.

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The Pool Block

A 1.5 acre vineyard at the northwestern corner of the property adjacent to the Heitz ranch.

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The Blending Blocks

Four acres of Bordeaux blending varieties plus ... Mourvèdre!

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The Snowden Ranch reaches one mile across the western-facing lower slopes of the Vaca Mountains on the eastern edge of the Napa Valley ... originally planted with grapes in 1878, this historic property at one time had as many as 60 acres of vineyard and has been owned by only three other families.  In a densely wooded area of the property, one can still see ‘the hill rows of forgotten vineyards and orchards ... among massive tree trunks’.

Rue Ziegler, Ph.D., A History of Snowden Ranch