The Napa Valley Backroads Experience is an association of small businesses located in the eastern hills between Rutherford and St. Helena. Our wineries produce an array of wines from Cabernet Sauvignon to Sauvignon Vert, from claret-style Zinfandels to port. We are family owned and operated wineries growing our own fruit and producing wines that showcase the quality of our regions—the Chiles Valley, Pope Valley and Lake Berryessa.

Chiles Valley and Pope Valley are picturesque and peaceful valleys that run parallel to the eastern side of the Napa Valley. Chiles Valley is at a high elevation (1000 feet), narrow and well protected by the surrounding foothills. Chiles Valley opens into Pope Valley to the North through a hairpin turn that drops down almost 700 feet into the bowl shaped valley. Pope Valley is a much more expansive valley with rolling hills. Because of their remote and rugged locations, these historic adjoining Valleys have been spared from development and commercialization. They offer the wine connoisseur and adventurer an opportunity to step back in time and visit the Napa Valley of yesteryear. All this awaits a fifteen-minute drive from the Silverado Trail.

Lake Berryessa
Prior to 1957, the lake was Monticello Valley and the town of Monticello. When Monticello Dam was completed, the lake started filling. Today it is one of the largest man-made lakes in California, 25 miles long, 3 miles wide and 275 feet deep at its deepest point, with 168 miles of shoreline. The north end of Lake Berryessa can be reached from Pope Valley along Pope Canyon Road. Knoxville-Berryessa road runs the length of the Lake Berryessa’s western shore. At the southern end of Lake Berryessa highway 128 takes you west to Chiles Valley.

Drive east out of the Napa Valley bumper to bumper traffic and up into the undiscovered backroads of Napa County! Besides our wineries, you will discover our country stores, a couple of restaurants and a bar, a museum and other historical points of interest along the way.

Experience the backroads of Napa Valley. It's worth the drive!