Benchland Wine Estate

Discover our beautiful benchland wine estate overlooking Dry Creek Valley. After a two-year search, Michel planted his roots in Dry Creek Valley because of its cooler microclimates and its abundance of well-defined benchlands (his model was as much the uplifted benches of the Médoc Peninsula as Napa’s Rutherford Bench). He found a series of benchland soils in the Valley’s Wine Creek Canyon with excellent exposures that were especially well contoured for growing grapes.