Winery & Vineyard
Hyde de Villaine is a venture between the Hyde Family of Napa Valley and the de Villaine Family of Burgundy. The families, related by marriage, share long histories in French and Californian winemaking. At Hyde de Villaine, we bring together our knowledge and experience for the purpose of creating single vineyard wines from Napa and Sonoma.
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Explore Hyde Vineyard


1
Creekside Syrah
- Block
- 1
- Plantation date
- 2006
- Clone/Selection
- Australian
- Rootstock
- 3309-C
- Trelising System
- VSP
- Pruning
- Cordon
- Density vines/acres
- 1130
- Spacing
- 5.5×7
- # Rows
- 13
- Total # of vines
- 825
- Acres
- 0.73
- Hectares
- 0.30
- Row direction
- Northeast–Southwest

2
Farside Cabernet Sauvignon
- Block
- 2
- Plantation date
- 2006
- Clone/Selection
- Heritage
- Rootstock
- 3309-C
- Trelising System
- VSP
- Pruning
- Cordon
- Density vines/acres
- 1130
- Spacing
- 5.5×7
- # Rows
- 16
- Total # of vines
- 2,440
- Acres
- 2.16
- Hectares
- 0.87
- Row direction
- East–West

3
New Calera Chardonnay
- Block
- 3
- Plantation date
- 2010
- Clone/Selection
- Calera
- Rootstock
- 101-14
- Trelising System
- VSP
- Pruning
- Guyot
- Density vines/acres
- 1130
- Spacing
- 5.5×7
- Acres
- 3.89
- Hectares
- 0.6069
- Row direction
- Northeast–Southwest

4
Wente Chardonnay
- Block
- 4
- Plantation date
- 1992, 1994, 1999
- Clone/Selection
- Wente
- Rootstock
- 3309-C
- Trelising System
- VSP
- Pruning
- Guyot
- Density vines/acres
- 1130
- Spacing
- 5.5×7
- # Rows
- 20
- Total # of vines
- 3,040
- Acres
- 2.67
- Hectares
- 1.08
- Row direction
- Northeast–Southwest

5
Syrah Noir
- Block
- 5
- Plantation date
- 1994
- Clone/Selection
- Syrah-Noir
- Rootstock
- 3309-C
- Trelising System
- VSP
- Pruning
- Cordon
- Density vines/acres
- 990
- Spacing
- 5.5×8
- # Rows
- 4
- Total # of vines
- 227
- Acres
- 0.46
- Hectares
- 0.18
- Row direction
- North–South

6
Old Merlot Niebaum
- Block
- 6
- Plantation date
- 1989
- Clone/Selection
- Niebaum
- Rootstock
- 3309-C
- Trelising System
- Split Canopy
- Pruning
- Cordon
- Spacing
- 660
- # Rows
- 6×11
- Total # of vines
- 1,346
- Acres
- 2.04
- Hectares
- 0.83
- Row direction
- East–West

7
New Calera Chardonnay
- Block
- 7
- Plantation date
- 1989
- Clone/Selection
- Calera
- Rootstock
- St Georges
- Trelising System
- VSP
- Pruning
- Guyot
- Density vines/acres
- 660
- Spacing
- 6×11
- # Rows
- 34
- Total # of vines
- 2,567
- Acres
- 3.89
- Hectares
- 1.57
- Row direction
- East–West
Vineyard
Producing some of the most coveted grapes in Napa Valley, Hyde Vineyard has gained distinction for its single vineyard wines. Extending this single vineyard approach, we endeavor to bring transparency to the unique expression of the Hyde Vineyards’ terroir.
Van der Kamp Vineyards is a small family owned and managed vineyard high above the Sonoma Valley. This unique location on the hillside of Sonoma Mountain creates Pinot Noir grapes of exceptional quality and personality. In 2012, we were able to partner with the Van der Kamp family to create our inaugural Pinot Noir.
Winemaking
We believe that the best and most respectful winemaking is done in the vineyard prior to harvest. Our winemaking team spends countless hours working year-round with the vines to ensure that only the best quality fruit arrives at the winery. Once harvested, our team becomes caretakers of the wine, never adhering to a style or recipe, but reacting to the characteristics of each vintage and block to ensure the true expression of the vineyard sings through the wines.
Terroir
Covering sedimentary terraces, Hyde Vineyard is blessed with shallow loamy soils and ancient streambeds that work in conjunction with the cool Carneros climate and gentle winds to create moderate hydric stress within the vines. The condition of moderate stress encourages the vines to maximize their potential. The temperature moderating winds off the Pacific Ocean, which are channeled through the Petaluma Gap, are key in allowing for prolonged growing seasons. This extended growing season is vital to the completion of phenolic maturation, bringing both intensity and balance to the wines.
Farming
At Hyde Vineyard, our vines tend to have minimal soil compaction, resulting in a healthy microbial ecosystem and a naturally balanced substructure for the vines. Sustainably farmed, our vines flourish under a naturally balanced environment that allows a certain amount of vine disease to occur. Though seemingly counterintuitive, the great producers of France have long understood that a certain amount of disease is not only natural, but provides assistance in stressing the vine into producing its finest wines. By avoiding chemical fertilizers and herbicides, a condition of biodiversity in the soil allows the vines to naturally repel most disease through the presence of beneficial organisms and bacteria.
Winery
The HdV winery building in Napa, CA

Located minutes north of downtown Napa and nestled beside the Napa River, the Hyde de Villaine winery was built in 2003. The winery was designed and developed to accommodate every aspect of HdV’s winemaking philosophy of minimal intervention.
HdV strongly believes in the gentlest handling of the grapes and minimal intervention in order to let the wines develop the characteristics that are true to the vineyard terroir.
The fruit goes through meticulous sorting: on the vine, at the picking bin and at the winery on a state-of-the-art sorting table. HdV’s equipment is custom designed to maximize the use of gravity and minimize the exposure to mechanical pumping. The juice is taken to an assortment of tanks from stainless steel to wooden vats or oak barrels. The ability to utilize multiple tank types allows Hyde de Villaine the flexibility to express the distinctive characteristics of each block.
Every barrel or vat is then followed by Guillaume personally until it is time to make the final blend. Only the finest barrels of wine make it to the bottle.