Fodor's Expert Review Heitz Cellar

Since this winery founded in 1961 changed hands in 2018, its valley-floor tasting room has morphed from a humble site to sip collector-worthy single-vineyard Cabernets into a white-tablecloth salon with prices to match. The premier experience—an estate cellar tour 5 miles away, an excursion to two vineyards, and a tasting—tops out at $1,000 a person. A more straightforward session, culminating with the legendary Martha's Vineyard Oakville Cab, unfolds inside the Salon at Heitz Cellar or on the stone structure's terrace, which juts east into a Cabernet vineyard. Crafted from certified organic grapes, the wines are magnificent, and the reasonably priced optional food pairing reveals additional complexity. Nostalgic critics have decried Heitz's grander iteration as a marker of "the real Napa Valley" slipping away. Perhaps, but the wines' restrained style recalls the great Cabs (including Heitz's) of the 1960s–70s, and the present-day hospitality couldn't be more welcoming.