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Silverado Vineyards

In the early 1970s, after a long-time romance with the Valley, owners Ron and Diane Miller chose to purchase land and move to Napa's Stags Leap District. It wasn't long before they'd fallen in love with the quality of the grapes they were growing, and in 1981, began construction of their own winery on the property. Whatever the cost, they decided, Silverado would deliver the best wines the Napa Valley could produce, at a fair price. Since those first days the winery has acquired a total of seven family owned vineyards. Silverado produces Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Merlot, Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon.

Winegrowers in the Napa Valley have always prospected, in the words of Robert Louis Stevenson, for "those pockets of earth that yield inimitable fragrance and soft fire." Over a century ago, Stevenson produced a small volume, The Silverado Squatters, which chronicled his brief sojourn in the wine country.

In 1880, the thirty-year-old Scots writer and his bride had journeyed to Napa Valley from San Francisco. Ill with tuberculosis, he was seeking respite in the mild, dry climate of Napa. The couple took shelter in a cabin near a played-out silver mine on the hot southern slope of Mount St. Helena.The mine was called Silverado. In his little book's most famous chapter, "Napa Wine," Stevenson described the labors of a handful of pioneers who were attempting to make great wine in the new land. For the first time, but not the last, the name Silverado and Napa Valley wine were linked.

A century later, the Miller family put Stevenson's prophetic words into action and established Silverado Vineyards. "It was beautiful land, and it was land that was working," says Diane Miller of their first vineyard, bought in the 1970s. Determined to make it one of the best in the valley, Diane and Ron Miller sold grapes to Napa's finest vintners, who made gold-medal wines with the fruit year after year. Encouraged, the family began construction of their own winery in 1981. Whatever the cost, they said, Silverado would deliver the best wines the Napa Valley could produce at a fair price, the cornerstone of the winery's remarkable success. Silverado--the name of the abandoned silver mine--today symbolizes the Miller family's commitment to the future of Napa wine. They are still "prospecting," seeking viticultural pay dirt.