Napa Valley · Private Estates

Auberge du Soleil

The valley's grande dame: fifty rooms across thirty-three acres of olive and oak, and a restaurant that has held its star for nearly two decades.

Photography courtesy of Auberge du Soleil

The property

It wrote the rules

Every wine region has one property that wrote the rules the others follow. In Napa Valley, it is Auberge du Soleil: a hillside in Rutherford where, more than forty years ago, fine dining arrived in wine country and never left.

The setting

Thirty-three acres, first light

Fifty guestrooms and suites sit among heritage olive and oak, with the valley floor spread out below. The finest are freestanding private maisons: over 1,800 square feet of indoor-outdoor living, fireplaces, soaking tubs, and rain showers under the open sky.

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Luxury, before Napa Valley knew the word.

At a glance

Location

Rutherford, Napa Valley

Rooms

50 guestrooms and suites

Grounds

33 acres of heritage olive and oak

Dining

Michelin-starred restaurant, six-course Chef's Tasting

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Auberge du Soleil, at length: the rooms, the restaurant, the reason the others exist.