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They call it the Yountville Mounts and, at just 458 feet high, it's no mountain but it is an influential force of the Yountville terroir.

Yountville ~ Napa Valley (AVA)

Yountville: A Small Hill's Big Influence on an AVA's Terroir

The Mounts which takes up less than six percent of the region’s 8,620 acres is the single-most influential determinant on Yountville’s 2,700 acres of planted grapevines as Alan Goldfarb learned in his quest to discover the character of the Yountville AVA in this eighth part of The Napa Valley Series.

by Alan Goldfarb
November 9, 2007

f perchance you thought it was all about super-chef Thomas Keller’s mounting empire in the tony little Napa Valley burgh of Yountville that locals have taken to calling Kellerville, you’d be only half right. Because in Yountville, it’s all about the Yountville Mounts, at least among those in the know concerning Yountville wines.

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