Robert Mondavi left his family's Charles Krug winery after a fistfight with his brother and built this Cliff May-designed arch at Oakville in 1966, the first major Napa winery since Prohibition.

Jacob and Frederick Beringer founded this St. Helena estate in 1876 and had Chinese labourers hand-cut tunnels into the hillside; it stayed open through Prohibition on sacramental wine.

Vittorio Sattui started selling wine from a North Beach cellar in 1885; his great-grandson revived the label here in 1976, and the wines are still sold only at the winery.

Dario Sattui spent thirteen years building a 121-room, 13th-century-style Tuscan castle above Calistoga, hand-laying imported stone down to a working drawbridge and moat.

A white hilltop winery reached by aerial tram, three hundred feet above the valley floor, with the bells of a 12th-century London church hanging outside.

John Williams farms dry, without irrigation, on an old Rutherford frog farm; the red barn dates to 1884 and the house motto is that time's fun when you're having flies.

Gustave Niebaum founded this Rutherford estate in 1879; Francis Ford Coppola bought it back piece by piece with Godfather money and reunited the original vineyard in 1995.

The Taittinger family of Champagne built this chateau on the cool Carneros flats in 1987, modelled on their own 18th-century Chateau de la Marquetterie.

Warren Winiarski's 1973 Cabernet beat the first growths of Bordeaux at the 1976 Judgment of Paris, and the vineyard that grew it sits on the Silverado Trail.