CAKEBREAD CELLARS
8300 St. Helena Highway
Rutherford, CA 94573
800-588-0298
www.cakebread.com

 

 

 

DIRECTIONS
Take CA-29 North from hotel for 9.7 miles. Winery will be on the right.  Approximate travel time:  13 minutes

 

 

TASTING ROOM INFORMATION
All Tastings and Tours are by Prior Appointment
To make an appointment, please call (800) 588-0298

 

Each day Cakebread Cellars offers a variety of tastings and one daily tour to give you an inside look on how they craft their fine wine.

 

 

All of their tastings and tours are by appointment. They are conducted in various venues around the winery—in barrel rooms, in the fermentation room and occasionally alongside the vineyard or on a patio when production schedule and weather permits. Please call ahead to make an appointment; weekends and holidays book quickly, up to several days in advance.

 

 

Cakebread Cellars is a smoke-free environment. This aligns with their fragrance-free and health & wellness goals for their business.

 

 

They have 9 Visitor Center offerings available by appointment:

1.  Select Wine Tasting of current release wines—daily from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
2. White Wine Tasting - By Prior Appointment Only --beginning April 19, 2010 
3. Red Wine Tasting--By Prior Appointment Only 
4. Cabernet Sauvignon Vertical Wine Tasting—limited tastings available now thru April 18, 2010  
5. Library Tasting—daily at 2:30 p.m.
6. Group Tasting—daily at 10:15 a.m. & Monday thru Thursday at 1:30 p.m. 
7. In-Depth Educational Tour & Tasting—daily at 10:30 a.m.
8. Wine & Food Pairing experience—Thursday and Friday at 11:00 a.m.
9. Sensory Evaluation program—Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 10:00 a.m.

 

 

THE STORY
Over 30 years ago, Jack Cakebread came to photograph the Napa Valley for a book and while here, he casually mentioned his interest in one day owning a vineyard to some family friends who had a ranch in Rutherford. When he returned home that afternoon, the phone rang and it was the family friends offering to sell their property. He headed back up to the valley that same afternoon to make his best offer, and Cakebread Cellars was born.

 

 

As the Cakebread family reflects upon the many profound changes in the wine industry over the last 33 years, such as innovative farming techniques and new methods of reaching out to consumers, they note that their key values have remained the same. Dedication to making the highest quality wines and a commitment to family has followed a continuum as their first small vineyard has grown into a thriving internationally distributed wine company.

 

 

Their first vintage--157 cases of 1973 Chardonnay--was sold to Phil Faight of Groezinger's Wine Shop in Yountville. He in turn sold to a small audience of premium wine drinkers who primarily drove up from the Bay Area on weekends to visit the country. "Two or three cars an hour would be on the road and we would all stop and look to see who was coming," said Jack as he thought of his original neighbors who became some of the "legends of the wine industry - Mondavi, Martini, Heitz, BV's Tchelistcheff and Christian Brothers "Brother Tim." Today, traffic is about 30 cars-a-minute as the world comes to visit the Napa Valley wine country.