{"id":1716,"date":"2020-12-29T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T18:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2020-12-29T18:34:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T18:34:57","slug":"v-sattui-winery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"V. Sattui Winery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Sattui Winery (www.vsattui.com<\/a>) is an American success story. Vittorio Sattui was born in a small town near Genoa and emigrated to San Francisco. He opened a winery there in 1885 and prospered, along with family members who followed him, until Prohibition closed the winery down.\u00a0 Then in 1976, Vittorio\u2019s great-grandson Dario revived the family business in St. Helena.\u00a0 (As it happens, our first trip to Napa Valley was in 1977, so we thought that V. Sattui had always been there.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The original winery in San Francisco.\u00a0 That\u2019s Vittorio\u2019s son Mario and brother Romeo out front.\u00a0 Photo courtesy of the winery.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Today, V. Sattui has become an institution.\u00a0 If you visit Napa Valley for only a few times, you are sure to wind up at their doorstep.\u00a0 Everybody does.\u00a0 There are several reasons why this is so.<\/p>\n

    The first is location. It\u2019s right on Route 29<\/a>, so anyone going to taste in the northern end of the valley has to pass by.\u00a0 Heitz<\/a> and Louis M. Martini<\/a> are just up the road, so we guess Dario figured back then this was a good spot for a winery, and maybe he knew that Flora Springs would open across the street in a few years.\u00a0 But he couldn\u2019t have known that Pahlmeyer, Belle Glos and Hall would<\/p>\n

    someday be neighbors as well.\u00a0 You could do a day\u2019s wine tasting in walking distance of V. Sattui.<\/p>\n

    Then of course there\u2019s the wine.\u00a0 V. Sattui has always had an enormous selection of them, many of which were quite affordable.\u00a0 This is still the case, but they also have pricier wines sourced from some of the most reputed vineyards in California, including Morisoli,\u00a0Ramazotti\u00a0and Quaglia.\u00a0 Their wines include four white varietals, ten red varietals (plus blends), eight dessert wines, five ros\u00e9s and four sparkling wines.<\/p>\n

    So how come you\u2019ve never seen any of these in your local wine store?\u00a0 It\u2019s because they don\u2019t distribute their wines outside the winery.\u00a0 These days, of course, everything is for sale on the internet as well.\u00a0 But for decades, V. Sattui has relied on visitors to buy up their stock.<\/p>\n

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    The picnic grounds at V. Sattui.\u00a0 Photo courtesy of the winery.<\/em><\/p>\n

    And the visitors have come, year after year, many attracted by the expansive picnic grounds on the property.\u00a0 Napa County has limited the number of wineries that can have picnic tables, with those that have long had them allowed to continue doing so.\u00a0 It is a common sight in good weather to see families gathered at the tables eating feasts, like you see in Italian movies.\u00a0 Somewhere, old Vittorio must be smiling.<\/p>\n

    The people are eating and drinking food and wine purchased on the premises.\u00a0 In addition to selling wines, V. Sattui has a very fine deli, or salumeria as Vittorio would have said.\u00a0 There are cold cuts, cheeses, sandwiches, salads, hot dishes and desserts.\u00a0 And of course, it all goes with V. Sattui wines.\u00a0 They have a rule that food and wine must be bought there, and that\u2019s only fair.<\/p>\n

    Many visitors are new to wine tasting in Napa Valley, so they\u2019ve never heard of, much less tasted, V. Sattui\u2019s wines.\u00a0 So if you sit the shady picnic area and listen carefully, you\u2019ll hear people saying, \u201cHey, this is pretty good\u201d.\u00a0 And it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sattui Winery (www.vsattui.com) is an American success story. Vittorio Sattui was born in a small town near Genoa and emigrated to San Francisco. He opened a winery there in 1885 and prospered, along with family members who followed him, until Prohibition closed the winery down.\u00a0 Then in 1976, Vittorio\u2019s great-grandson Dario revived the family business … Continue reading V. Sattui Winery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}