Tom Rinaldi, Director of Winemaking, Hewitt Vineyard Estate, Rutherford Ca.

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  With more than three decades of Napa Valley winemaking experience, Tom Rinaldi is proud to be the first winemaker to craft a single-vineyard expression for the Hewitt Vineyard Estate. “It’s an exceptional piece of land,” says Rinaldi. “The first time I set foot on it, the hair on the back of my neck stood up.”

  Rinaldi has made wine at some of the valley’s most important wineries, apprenticing at Freemark Abbey, Rutherford Hill and Round Hill before joining Dan and Margaret Duckhorn to help found Duckhorn Vineyards in 1978. There, for two decades, he established himself as one of Napa Valley’s premier fashioners of elegantly classic Cabernet Sauvignons and Merlots.