Chateau Boswell

Château Boswell has a new winemaker as of 2013, but the winery, caves, tasting room and garden patio remain as beautiful as ever.
Russell Bevan has taken over wine making duties here and is sure to transform the wines from what long-​time winery fans have become used to.
Tasting at this boutique winery off the Silverado trail is by appointment only, and you will enjoy a tour, some education, maybe a little tasting from barrel in the cave and some finished wines to boot.
And if you are lucky, you might get to meet Russell. He requires no explanation.
Bring a bite, buy a bottle and enjoy it in the garden!

Outstanding Wine Tasting In A Cave!
SITREP
My dear friend Jennifer — one of my true wine connoisseur friends — has made an appointment with the good people at Château Boswell, since it is a winery you can see by appointment only. And it is truly an outstanding experience.
THE SETUP
We actually arrived to Château Boswell in Saint Helena (from Sacramento) about 60 minutes before our appointment, but we were received warmly and were able to engage in our truly unique and fun wine tasting experience right away!
Château Boswell is on the Silverado Trail side of the Napa Valley — not on the HWY 29 side of the valley — so it will be a pleasant drive away from most of the tourist traffic.
MATT SIMPSON
Marketing Expert, Wine Docent, Vintologist Extraordinaire, and Napa & Sonoma Valley (and European AND Chinese AND South American, etc. etc.) Wine Region expert, Matt is definitely the best «go to» guy you could ask about wine — it’s acidity levels, it’s pairing with foods, what vines we could grow in our backyard in Sacramento, etc. etc. — and so we were lucky from the start to get his one-​man history lessons filtered through the most hiLARious stand-​up comic.
IN A CAVE
Matt guided us through what can only be described as a cave in the hillside of where the Château Boswell winery is, and THAT was fun!
We went through the labyrinth of several different well-​lighted & interior-​altered tunnels of this wonderful cave, seeing rows upon rows upon rows, levels upon levels upon levels of the vintage barrels all stacked up nicely & neatly.
The white wines were in uniformly plain barrels. The red wine barrels had a giant band of red coloring around their perimeters.
[As part of the due diligent maintenance of the storage areas, I found it interesting to see the ultra-​violet bug zappers were uniformly distributed throughout the cave, zapping any of the small groups fruit-​flies that might sprout up because of the sugars that might excrete from the barrels and dripped onto the ground where the little gnatty creatures liked to congregate.]
CAVE-​TASTING
It was so much fun to be in what can only be described as our own special alcove in the cave, with a wine-​barrel with glass-​top serving as our wine-​tasting station. It is here where Matt delivered some of the most incredible wine knowledge I’ve gotten to date about the current state of the wine industry, comparing ours to the burgeoning development going on with China’s wine industry, all while serving us up some excellent glasses of Château Boswell wine.
The white Jacquelynn Cuvée Blanc was decidedly by far my most favorite of the bunch we tried, with it’s light dry taste and an excellent light-​fruity finish, though the red Cabernet was rich with fruity notes that I enjoyed too.
The wines are not cheap, and will run you between $ 50 — $ 150 a bottle. But if you are truly a wine connoisseur, you are bound to find a unique and quality red or white in this winery that you will truly enjoy.
THE LOWDOWN
An excellent wine-​excursion stop in Napa Valley along the Silverado Trail.