Philip Togni

Perched around 2,000 feet on Napa Valley’s Spring Mountain above St. Helena, Philip Togni Vineyard is a small, family-run estate founded by classically trained winemaker Philip Togni, who studied under Emile Peynaud in Bordeaux and went on to shape several leading California wineries before planting his own vines here in 1981. The roughly 25-acre property, purchased in the mid-1970s, is farmed organically and functions as a fully self-contained estate: they grow all their own fruit, vinify, bottle, and store the wi…