Newton Vineyard was born from the vision of Peter Newton who believed in the potential of hillside vineyards to produce great French-inspired wines in the Napa Valley. Aware that the vines in Bordeaux thrive thanks to the terroir’s unique soils, Newton looked to where he could find comparable land in Napa, which led him to Spring Mountain, where he purchased one square mile of rolling hillside in 1977, when all the other wineries were situated on the valley floor. Newton Vineyard is the reference for Unfiltered American wines and eco-friendly viticulture, pursuing a style expressing nature, carefully listening to each vineyard subsection or block, to translate their important and distinctive messages. Peter Newton was convinced that only unfiltered wines expressed the true essence of the fruit with a rich texture and full, uncompromised flavors. Today, Newton’s wines remain unfiltered. The precise, block-by-block approach Newton uses to cultivate its vineyards extends into the winery, as their predominantly natural, low-intervention winemaking techniques gently nurture the fruit to its fullest, most intense and harmonious expression.