Wine clubs offer tours of vineyard caves

Wine club cave tours

Napa wine clubs like Anderson’s Conn Valley Vineyards Wine Club often schedule cave tours. Many wine caves have been turned into underground works of architectural art, set up to cater dinners. Here you can taste the newest wines, and wines from earlier years. You can learn about the wine industry from professional winemakers. When going on a cave tour, dress as you would for a cool spring or fall day —it never gets too hot or too cold inside the cave.

Winery near St. Helena offers cave tours

Anderson’s Conn Valley Vineyards in Napa Valley, a short drive from downtown St. Helena, holds tastings in its barrel caves. Cave tastings are $65, but one tasting fee can be waived by joining Anderson’s Conn Valley Vineyards Wine Club or making a $100 purchase.

Anderson’s Conn Valley Vineyards produces wines that are sold online and in five locations in Napa Valley, and many other locations nationwide. One Bordeaux blend from the library that you might be introduced to on a cave tour of Anderson’s Conn Valley is the 2007 Éloge. This dark ruby wine has an aroma of mocha, chocolate, and black stone fruits balanced with oakiness. Its flavor begins with the juicy taste of ripe blackberries, followed by more dark fruit flavors with chocolate covered cherries perfectly matched with fruit and oak tannins. It has a finish lasting two to three minutes in the mouth. The ’07 Éloge is expected to get even better as it ages. Buy a bottle today and enjoy it ten to fourteen years from now.