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About Rubicon Estate... In 1975, Francis Ford Coppola became enchanted with the historic Inglenook property in Rutherford, Napa Valley. It had been established as a winery in 1880 by a tenacious young sea captain, Gustave Niebaum. Niebaum designed a winery that was a marvel to engineering science. He conceived a gravity-flow system that, while commonplace today, was unthinkable during his era. It took twenty-five masons to craft the stone and iron structure and seven years to complete. Within ten years of founding Inglenook, Niebaum's wines were lauded by the press worldwide.
In 2006, Francis renamed the winery from Niebaum-Coppola Estate Winery to Rubicon Estate, in honor of the flagship wine, to celebrate the restoration of the organically certified vineyards, completion of the extensive wine caves and the return of winemaking to the Chateau for the first time since 1966.
Today, the Chateau houses two elegantly appointed tasting rooms, Mammarella Wine Bar, a museum, and the valley's most unique retail room which includes merchandise personally selected by Francis and Eleanor Coppola from locations visited on world travel expeditions.
Distinctively appointed tasting rooms, vaulted stone cellars and a spectacular hand-carved stair case are a few of the dramatic attractions. At the Centennial Museum visitors can see documents and artifacts from Inglenook's early beginning and the story of the Coppla family restoration of the Estate. Occasionally, special releases of Library Wines are available for purchase or tasting in the Rubicon Salon.
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