2027 vintage · Crews enrolling

Howell Mountain Estate

Howell Mountain · Napa Valley, California · USA · from $480

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from $480

Lease a share of a lot by the vine — 5-vine minimum. Your bottles are allocated pro-rata at release, plus shipping and a $1-a-bottle completion fee.

Your vines

Bottles: ≈6
Of a barrel: 1.8%
Total: $1,000

Barrel drawn at 225 L (~300 bottles) for scale; lot sizes vary by vessel.

Or lease the whole block

Three years or more: every call is yours alone, and your name goes on the label. A $500 deposit holds it while the winery confirms the yearly price and the lease terms with you, before anything more is charged — and it's fully refundable from your account until you sign.

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The wines

3 wines enrolling in Howell Mountain.

Each is one lot, made in one vessel. The winemaker designs the style; the calls inside it are yours.

Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon

95% Cabernet Sauvignon · 5% Petit Verdot

A Howell Mountain Cabernet from red volcanic soil is powerful and tannic, with blackberry and cassis over dark chocolate and a crushed-rock minerality.

blackberrycassisdark chocolatecrushed rockpowerful tannin

LightFull

Pairs with: dry-aged steak, rack of lamb, venison
Serve: Serve 17-18°C; decant two hours for the powerful tannins.
Cellar: Big and structured young; rewards 10-20 years.

$200/vine · 1.1 btl/vine

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Volcanic Zinfandel

Zinfandel

A volcanic mountain Zinfandel is concentrated and structured, with blackberry and black raspberry over pepper and a stony, mineral edge.

blackberryblack raspberryblack peppervolcanic mineralfirm tannin

LightFull

Pairs with: barbecue ribs, spiced sausage, smoked brisket
Serve: Serve 16-17°C; a short decant suits the bold volcanic fruit.
Cellar: Best in its first 5-8 years while concentrated and vibrant.

$96/vine · 1.5 btl/vine

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Mountain Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Franc

A mountain Cabernet Franc here is dense and savory, with black cherry and raspberry over a gravelly, tobacco-edged depth and firm tannins.

black cherryraspberrycrushed graveltobaccofirm tannin

LightFull

Pairs with: roast lamb, grilled steak, mushroom dishes
Serve: Serve 16-17°C; decant an hour to lift the savory fruit.
Cellar: Approachable young; holds 6-12 years.

$130/vine · 1.3 btl/vine

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What you receive

A year of the vintage, in your hands.

Samples all season

Verijuice, post-ferment, barrel, and finished wine — shipped as the vintage takes shape.

A vote at every fork

Pick date, oak, and where the blend lands. The winemaker lays out the options; you choose.

Watch it live

Livestream access to harvest at dawn, the cellar, and bottling day, from anywhere.

Your bottles at release

Allocated pro-rata to your vines, with your Crew's name on the back label.

Vine to bottle

You’re there for the whole year.

We farm the vineyard every month of it. The filled stops are where a call comes to you: in a Crew you vote on it with the other members; on a whole-block lease it’s yours alone.

A full vintage, month by month →

Jan
Dormant pruning
Cane counts set the size of the crop.
Feb
Cane tying
Mar
Bud break
Apr
Shoots grow
May
Flowering
Jun
Fruit set
Jul
Canopy
Aug
Véraison
A verijuice sample ships to you.
Sep
Harvest
Your call · Pick date
The winemaker brings the ripeness numbers and the forecast. Pick now, or wait.
Oct
Cap punch
A post-ferment sample ships to you. On a whole-block lease, fermentation is your call too.
Nov
Barrel down
Your call · Oak
How much new wood, and how long the wine spends in barrel.
Dec
Barrel samples
A barrel sample ships to you.
Then
Blend & bottle
Your call · The blend
Where the final wine lands inside the winemaker's range — then bottling day.

Swipe through the year →

The place

Why the wine tastes like Howell Mountain.

Region: Howell Mountain, Napa Valley, California, USA
Soil: Red volcanic 'aiken' loam and white volcanic ash (tufa) over fractured rock
Climate: Above the fog on the eastern rim — bright mountain sun by day, cold clear nights
Elevation: 430–700 m
Wines enrolling: 3 Crew lots

Howell Mountain, Napa Valley, California, USA

Follow the season

The Howell Mountain growing year, by the numbers.

Weather is live and real, updated hourly. The season curve is typical for this region’s latitude and climate, replaced by your Crew’s readings once farming begins.

Live at the vineyard · updated hourly

12°Clear

62% humidity · wind 13 km/h

940 growing degree days · last 90 days

Last 14 days · high / low °C

7-day forecast

Sun

21°

11°

Clear

Mon

20°

8°

Partl

Tue

25°

7°

Overc

Wed

28°

9°

Overc

Thu

31°

12°

Clear

Fri

33°

14°

Clear

Sat

33°

15°

Clear

Hemisphere

Right now

Harvest

Target ripeness

BarrelLogic · vintage feed

Example

Pick called for dawn — fruit sampling at 20° Brix
3h ago
First bins in the cellar; cold soak started on the home block
8h ago
Crew vote open: whole-cluster fraction for the top lot
Yesterday
Juice numbers logged — pH 3.4, TA on target
Yesterday
Members invited to watch crush, live from the cellar
2 days ago

Example activity. Your Crew’s feed from Howell Mountain appears here once the vintage begins.

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Season progress

Typical · Apr–Oct

Typical ripeness

Typical · véraison to harvest

Beyond the bottle

Your vintage, end to end.

Lease it here, follow and steer it in BarrelLogic, and taste the wider world at BarrelTaster. Three sites, one vintage.

01 · Lease it
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Your own vineyard. Without the work.
Your vines in Howell Mountain and the wine they make — a few by the vine, or the whole block.
You're here
02 · Follow & decide it
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The operating system for modern winemakers.
Track your vintage from bud break to barrel — ripeness, the cellar, samples, and every winemaking vote — in the winery's operating system.
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03 · Taste first
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Tell us what you'd want

Want something else from Howell Mountain?

The wines above are open now, by the vine or as a whole-block lease. If you'd rather buy finished bottles or visit, say so. When enough people ask, we take that demand to the region's wineries — and you'll be the first to hear what they say.

Buy with confidence

Owning a vintage, without the worry.

This listing opens with the 2027 vintage. Questions about delivery, timing, or how a season runs where you live? Ask before you commit.

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We farm it
Pruning, canopy, harvest and the cellar work are done for you. The winemaking calls come to you.
Real provenance
Your bottles are tied to your vines, with your Crew's name on the back label. Lease the whole block and your own name goes on it.
A deposit, then the lease
A $500 deposit holds a whole-block lease while the winery confirms the yearly price and the three-year terms with you. It's fully refundable from your account until you sign.
Ships within the US
To most states. Outside the US: storage, pickup at the estate, or a US address.

Questions

What people ask first.

Every question, answered →

No — check out as a guest. We create your account after you pay so you can follow your vines and manage shipments.

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Make the Howell Mountain vintage yours.

Buy a few vines or lease the whole block — no account needed until checkout. We farm it; you make the calls, and the wine is yours.

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Howell Mountain Estate

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Howell Mountain Estate

3 wines enrolling in Howell Mountain.

Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon

Volcanic Zinfandel

Mountain Cabernet Franc

A year of the vintage, in your hands.

Samples all season

A vote at every fork

Watch it live

Your bottles at release

You’re there for the whole year.

Why the wine tastes like Howell Mountain.

The Howell Mountain growing year, by the numbers.

Your vintage, end to end.

SplitVineyards

BarrelLogic

BarrelTaster

Want something else from Howell Mountain?

Owning a vintage, without the worry.

Guest checkout

Secure checkout

We farm it

Real provenance

A deposit, then the lease

Ships within the US

What people ask first.

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Make the Howell Mountain vintage yours.