Our Napa County Use Permit does not allow us to have an open tasting room. However, we look forward to your visit. Saintsbury is open for tours and tastings by appointment only Monday through Friday. On Saturdays we offer only tastings also by appointment. Tasting fees are waved when a purchase is made or you join our wine club. Please call or email ahead . . .

Constructed in 1886 by a Scottish sea captain, Hamden McIntyre, our winery was originally known as Eshcol. McIntyre designed it as a gravity-flow system: a horse-drawn winch brought grapes to the third floor of the three-story structure for crushing; gravity carried the juice to the second floor for fermenting; and, eventually, the wine descended to the first . . .