OUR STORY
Though the domaine was founded more than 200 years ago. We do know that in 1920, Alice Hartmann and her husband purchased the property and soon afterward she was widow but valiantly fought to keep it running through the perils and privations of World War II. Around 2019, the current owners decided to expand internationally and launch a Napa Valley initiative. The idea was to combine European winemaking philosophy with California terroir.
THE VINEYARDS
From Calistoga's sun-warmed north to Yountville's fog-kissed south, Project One draws from the full length of Napa Valley — Rutherford, Oakville, and every storied stretch in between. Rather than pinning itself to a single hillside or soil type, it moves freely across the valley, gathering the best each vintage has to offer. The result is a wine that captures Napa not as a place, but as a conversation — layered, generous, and always in motion. Each year, the blend shifts with the season, making Project One as much an act of listening as of winemaking.
Positioned at the heart of Napa Valley, Oakville draws both the warmth of the north and the cooling breath of the Bay — a tension that gives its wines their singular character: ripe yet refined, powerful yet precise. Gravelly benchland soils on the western edge yield wines of freshness and structure, while the clay-rich valley floor lends depth and opulence. Home to some of Napa's most legendary vineyards, Oakville is sacred ground for Cabernet Sauvignon — rich but refined, structured yet seductive. This is the benchmark against which great Napa Cabernet is measured, and has been for well over a century.
At 2,000 feet on Howell Mountain — well above the fog line that blankets the valley below — our vineyard occupies a place apart. The air is cooler, the light more direct, and the volcanic soils thinner and more demanding than anything on the valley floor. This elevation creates a paradox of climate: days that are cooler than the valley, nights that are warmer, and a slow, deliberate ripening that concentrates flavors to an uncommon intensity. The rocky, iron-rich soils drain freely and give little, pushing the vines to dig deep and yield small. The result is wine of deep color, firm structure, and the kind of minerality that only a mountain can provide — built to age, and worth the wait.
Carved into the rugged western face of the Mayacamas Mountains, Mount Veeder is Napa's most untamed and elemental appellation. Its soils are unlike any other in the valley — not volcanic, but ancient seabed, pushed skyward by tectonic force into fractured shale and blue clay. The proximity to San Pablo Bay brings a cooling influence that no other Napa mountain enjoys, extending the growing season to some of the longest in the valley and keeping yields among the lowest. The result is fruit of fierce concentration and remarkable restraint — wines that carry the mountain's wild character in every sip: brooding, mineral, structured to the bone, and capable of decades of life in the cellar.
OUR WINES
Power and precision from across the Napa Valley floor. The 2022 Project One is a commanding blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Franc, Petit Verdot, Malbec and Merlot — dense, structured and built to age. Espresso, black currant and graphite on a full-bodied palate with firm, polished tannins.
Grown at 2,000 feet on iron-rich volcanic soils, above the Napa Valley fog line, this is mountain Cabernet at its most uncompromising. Wild blackberry, dried violet and volcanic earth with a powerful, tightly coiled structure — built for decades of cellaring.
From what many are calling the vintage of a lifetime. The 2023 Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon shows the elegance and precision this AVA is celebrated for — red currant, black cherry, fresh violet and crushed gravel on a finely structured, mineral-driven palate.