Colgin Cellars is a winery in Napa Valley, California, founded in 1992.
Since 1992, Colgin Cellars has embraced the ideal of crafting wines of harmony, grace, and precision from exceptional hillside vineyards in the heart of the Napa Valley. The combination of unique geology, mid-slope elevation, and cooling airflow, in concert with precision farming, establishes certain sites as the pinnacle of quality. From the release of their first vintage in 1995, the ethos of Colgin Cellars is to create wines of perfume, freshness, and minerality while embracing the diversity found in Napa’s hillside vineyards.
Vineyards and wines
Herb Lamb: Placing great importance on hillside vineyards, Colgin Cellars began sourcing fruit from the Herb Lamb vineyard in the foothills of Howell Mountain, producing wines from this site from the 1992 to 2007 vintages. The “Herb Lamb” wine is consistently about charm and perfume, with notes of blue fruits and mint.
Tychson Hill: In 1996, the winery purchased a historic vineyard site, with origins dating back to 1860, to the north of the town of Saint Helena. Owned and farmed by Josephine Tychson in the 1880s, the first woman to build a winery in the Napa Valley, the vineyard was replanted with heritage clones of Cabernet Sauvignon and named in her honor. The site is currently planted with 6 acres (2.42 hectares) of vines. 2000 is the first vintage of Colgin Cellars’ “Tychson Hill” Cabernet Sauvignon, a wine celebrated for its ethereal qualities, as well as floral notes, and red fruit distinguishable in every vintage. Lisa Perrotti-Brown, formerly of The Wine Advocate, explained, “Tychson Hill blew my mind…this edifying beauty takes Napa Valley elegance and grace to a whole new level.”
Cariad: From the undulating western hillsides of Saint Helena, Colgin produces a wine called “Cariad” from the 1999 vintage onwards.