The winery sits in a beautiful location and is perched on top of a hill surrounded by rolling hills and estate vineyards. And while the winery is in the country, it is only about a 12-minute drive from downtown Napa. Due to its proximity to the golf course, the Silverado Country Club often refers guests here. William Hill Winery is located about a mile from the entrance to the Silverado Country Club (home of PGA and Senior PGA events). Today, Bill owns Broken Rock Vineyard, a 90-acre site about 2 miles in on Atlas Peak Road (not far from William Hill Winery, this vineyard supplies fruit to select premium producers as well as to his family’s own brand, Prime Solum). Much later, Bill opened Silverado Studios a brief foray into operating a tasting room along the southern part of the Silverado Trail which is now owned by Laird Family Estate.

Over the years, Bill has worked with a number of Napa’s more influential winemakers or winery owners including André Tchelistcheff, Ric Forman, Donald Hess and Robert Craig. Veeder for what later became the Hess Collection Estate Vineyard. And Bill developed the vineyard site on Mt. Incidentally the first Napa vineyard he developed was on Diamond Mountain in the mid 1970s – a piece of property he called Diamond Mountain Ranch now owned by Sterling Vineyards. In 1998 he co-founded Pacific Premiere Vineyards and during 13 years with the company he oversaw the development of thousands of acres of high-end vineyards throughout the west coast of the USA encompassing some 40+ premiere properties. E & J Gallo Winery has owned the winery and property since 2007.īill is a pioneer of vineyard development in California, Oregon and Washington. William sold the winery in 1992 and it has since changed hands several times. For many years the William Hill wines were made at other wineries the current winery was built in the late 1980s. A year later he made another vintage this was the first vintage released under his new winery at the time using his namesake, William Hill. Bill moved to the San Francisco Bay area from Oklahoma to attend Stanford University and eventually moved to Napa Valley in 1974. While traveling through Europe Bill became bitten by the wine bug, especially from his time spent in Burgundy.

William Hill Estate dates from 1978 and was founded by William (Bill) Hill.

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