Episode
Napa ValleyTerlato's pinnacle Napa red: a Bordeaux blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot, aged 21 months in new French oak and a further 14 months in bottle before release. Made in small quantities.
One family's estates,held for another's.
An invitation-only wine club for North American family offices, built with Terlato Wines — a four-generation American wine family with more than seventy years in the business and estates of its own in Napa, the Sta. Rita Hills and Red Mountain.
The house, and who joins it.
A family office exists to hold one family’s legacy. Terlato has been a family business for four generations and owns the estates its wine comes from. The club is where those two things meet.
Terlato
Four generations, seventy years
Terlato owns its estates rather than buying from them — Chimney Rock and Rutherford Hill in Napa, Sanford in the Sta. Rita Hills, Klipsun on Red Mountain — and imports from houses it has represented for decades. Every allocation is chosen and shipped by the family that made the wine.
The membership
By invitation, and capped
Members are introduced rather than recruited. The club is built for family offices and the people who run them, and it stays small enough that every member can be hosted at an estate in person.
What the club can open.
Terlato owns its estates rather than buying from them, which is why members can be hosted at the places the wine comes from.
Chimney Rock
Stags Leap District, Napa Valley Terlato-owned since 2000Cabernet Sauvignon grown under the Stags Leap Palisades. Single-vineyard bottlings, and a barrel room that seats a winemaker's dinner.
Stags Leap DistrictAppellation
Rutherford Hill
Rutherford, Napa Valley Terlato-owned since 1996The family's first winery, and the one with the caves — nearly a mile of them cut into the hillside, with a hilltop Skyloft above.
1996First estate
Klipsun Vineyard
Red Mountain, Washington 120 acres, planted 1982Named one of the Top 25 Vineyards in the World by Wine & Spirits. Its fruit has gone into many of Washington's finest wines for forty years.
Top 25Vineyards in the world
Sanford
Sta. Rita Hills, Santa Barbara County Terlato-held since 2002Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the appellation that made the California cool-climate case.
Sta. Rita HillsAppellation
Castello di Bolgheri
Bolgheri, Tuscany Imported by TerlatoThe European end of the book, and the reason a members' trip can be an Italian one.
TuscanyEstate visits
Five to start with.
An allocation is chosen for each member rather than shipped from a list. These are the wines the first allocations are built around.
Chimney Rock
Stags Leap DistrictEstate Cabernet Sauvignon from the Stags Leap District, including single-vineyard bottlings made in very small lots.
Klipsun
Red Mountain, WashingtonFrom the 120-acre Red Mountain vineyard planted in 1982 and named one of the Top 25 Vineyards in the World.
Rutherford Hill
Napa ValleyThe estate that built its reputation on Merlot, with library vintages held back in the caves.
Champagne Lanson
Reims, FranceA Champagne house founded in 1760, and part of the Terlato book since 2021.
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The allocation.
One membership, held for a year. Most of it comes back as wine.
US$1,850 a year
- Wine
- A selection of Terlato wine, chosen from cellar-worthy and high-end selections.
- Events
- Members-only tastings, winemaker dinners and estate visits in Napa and Tuscany, hosted by Terlato.
- Access
- First call on limited releases and library wines.
- Cellar guidance
- Sommelier advice on what to buy, how to store it and when to open it.
Memberships may be held by the principal, by family members and by senior staff, so one office can hold several.
What is already on the calendar.
These are real dates at Terlato’s own estates. Anything a family wants built for it can be built.
Harvest winemaker dinner
Saturday 7 November 2026 · 5.30pmAn evening in the barrel room led by winemaker Elizabeth Vianna: a reception, then a seated dinner built around the single-vineyard Cabernets.
Behind the scenes
90 minutes · limitedInto the production area, then tasting straight from the barrel, finishing with a seated tasting of current releases on the patio.
Vineyard odyssey
By touring cartOut of the winery and into the Stags Leap District estate itself, tasting the Cabernet in the rows it was grown in, with the Palisades behind you.
Cave tour and tasting
Five winesA walking tour of the property and the caves cut into the hill, with a tasting across the range.
The Skyloft
Private groupsThe hilltop room kept for private tastings, with cheese and charcuterie chosen against the wines.
Fall harvest party
HarvestThrough the winery room by room, each wine poured blind against a harvest dish.
Red Mountain
WashingtonA visit to the vineyard itself — 120 acres on the southwest slope of Red Mountain, planted in 1982.
Taste through the decades
Previously hostedA retrospective of forty years of estate winemaking — six wines across four decades, led by Karen MacNeil with winemakers Elizabeth Vianna and Laura Orozco. An example of what the club can have built for it.
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After the first case.
The membership is the introduction. Most of what follows is bought directly from the estate.
Further allocations
More of the wines a member already keeps, at member pricing.
Library and large formats
Older vintages and magnums, for a cellar meant to be held.
Custom bottlings
Private-label and family-blend wines, etched or engraved, for family milestones.
Private events at the estates
A family's own event at a Terlato vineyard — a celebration, a governance retreat, a board dinner, an investor evening.
Corporate and client gifting
Holiday and client gifts with custom labels, for the operating businesses a family office owns.
The next generation
Wine education for heirs, which sits naturally alongside the family-governance programmes many offices already run.
Membership is by invitation.
Tell us which office you are with and we will come back to you. The membership is capped, and we would rather it stayed small.
Thank you.
We have your details and will be in touch.
Preview only — nothing was sent. On the live site this reaches membership@familyofficewineclub.com.