Niebaum Coppola Winery

1991 St. Helena Highway

Rutherford, CA 94573

(800) 782-4266

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A gorgeous vineyard all the way around, without the most impressive wine though. Not bad, but not my favorite, but well worth checking out, and with some very cool memorabilia from Coppola’s movie.

We tried 4 wines there:

2004 Coppola Sofia Blanc de Blancs, which was an excellent sparkling wine, with a nice fruity flavor and not too sweet.

2003 Director’s Reserve Chardonnay. Not my favorite with a bit of a strong aftertaste.

2003 Director’s Reserve Chardonnay, a good and spicy Zinfandel without much of an aftertaste

2002 Director’s Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. Again a little strong for my taste, with too much of an aftertaste.

They did give very cool wine glasses with the Niebaum Coppola name on the base, though they only poured 1 ounce of wine in the tasting glasses, so I guess they needed to save money somewhere.

Also took some pictures of the Apocalypse Now memorabilia which was very cool.