Realm Cellars

Realm, with proprietor Scott Becker at the helm and Frenchman Benoit Touquette making the wines, is arguably the most ambitious winery in Napa Valley today. Scott got into wine in the mid-2000s, following five years of service in the U.S. Air Force and two years at Harvard Business School. His first mentor was Jack Cakebread, who he worked for every summer until graduation. He later met Bill Harlan and spent the next few years working on the foundation of what would become Promontory. Benoit, meanwhile, is Bordeaux born and bred, and was mentored by no less than Michel Rolland and Andy Erikson, playing a part in the production of Dalla Valle, Ovid and Screaming Eagle. Scott and Benoit's energy is relentless. Their focus on reflecting site over style has won them fans across the US, and their sights are now set on the rest of the world. The Bard is an introduction to Realm, a snapshot of the vintage in Napa Valley, and then a raft of single vineyard wines traverse the valley and its complex aspects and soil types.