Four Seasons Napa Valley:
The Resort With Its Own Winery

In Calistoga, at the quiet northern end of Napa Valley, the Four Seasons Resort and Residences sits in the middle of something no other luxury resort in the valley can claim: its own working winery. Elusa — nearly five acres of estate vines planted more than two decades ago — wraps around the property, with a tasting room set directly below TRUSS, the resort's main dining room. Guests don't visit the winery. They stay inside it.

The winemaking carries serious weight. Thomas Rivers Brown — the winemaker behind some of Napa's most collected cabernets — works with Jonathan Walden on Elusa's expressive cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, and sauvignon blanc. The first grapes were planted long before the resort arrived; the wine was already here.

The dining follows the same logic. Auro, the resort's fine-dining room, holds a Michelin star — the only one in Calistoga — with a seven-course tasting menu built on Napa Valley ingredients. TRUSS Restaurant + Bar takes the brasserie line: bold, seasonal, farm-to-table cooking in a room that hums. And the spa is top-flight in the Calistoga tradition — don't miss the mud baths.

It is the rare Napa stay where the wine program isn't a list but a landscape. For availability and reservations, inquire through the journal.

Details verified at time of publication. Photography is illustrative — final features are photographed on location.

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