Saratoga, Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Foxglove Hill Estate
A small organic Saratoga hillside devoted to vivid, age-worthy Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet.
The story
Where the wine comes from
Foxglove Hill is imagined as a small organic vineyard above Saratoga, on the inland side of the Santa Cruz Mountains where marine air meets warm afternoon sun.
Founder Evelyn Vale planted the hillside to Cabernet with the belief that careful farming and modest yields could express this overlooked mountain landscape.
The wines are fictional, small-lot and structured for the cellar — an example of the intimate estate story Host&Vine is designed to carry beyond wine country.
Winemaking
Iris Vale, estate winemaker
Philosophy
Farm organically, pick for freshness and let one cool mountain hillside speak through every small lot.
Region
Saratoga, Santa Cruz Mountains, California
The wines
What could be on your table
Foxglove Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon
Illustrative vintage
Fresh, focused and acid-driven — cassis, dried herb and mountain tannin built for the cellar.
Pairs with: Roast lamb, dry-aged steak, aged hard cheese.
$145 a bottle · Serve at 60-65°F
Foxglove Block Cabernet
Cabernet Sauvignon
Illustrative vintage
Hillside intensity — dark cherry, graphite and bay laurel with a long, savory finish.
Pairs with: Short rib, mushroom ragù, anything slow-cooked.
$125 a bottle · Serve at 60-65°F
This winery, its wines, vintages and tasting notes are entirely fictional examples.
Tasting collections
Choose the evening you want to host
Each collection is built by the winery to introduce a room of guests to what they do.
The Foxglove Estate
4 bottles · $500 deposit
Four fictional wines from one small mountain estate, poured alongside its imagined history.
4–10 guests
Host this tastingMountain Light Vertical
5 bottles · $625 deposit
A fictional vintage-by-vintage walk through mountain Cabernet, with a recorded winemaker introduction.
4–10 guests
Host this tastingPick an evening, set a date, and invite the room. The deposit is recorded as a simulated commitment while we're in preview — no card is charged.