Today St. Helena is the quiet heart of the Napa Valley — a stone-built wine town between the Mayacamas and the Vacas, under the mountain that gave it its name. Its story runs from a Wappo homeland through a farm town's beginnings to the center of California wine, with Robert Louis Stevenson and a big red waterwheel along the way. Our St. Helena designs gather that identity into wearable form — the bear-and-1850 emblem, the mountain, and the vines. St. Helena, California: bottled poetry, worn plain.
What's with Mount St. Helena? The town takes its name from the mountain that stands at the head of the valley — Mount St. Helena, a 4,340-foot peak that closes off the upper Napa Valley to the north. (It is not, despite a century of confusion, the volcano: that's Mount St. Helens, a different mountain and a different spelling, a thousand miles up in Washington.) Mount St. Helena is the quiet giant of wine country — the cool night air that slides down off it is part of what makes the grapes here what they are — and, as you'll see, it has its own literary ghost.
Why People Visit St Helena
St. Helena offers Napa Valley at its most walkable and unhurried — a real town in the middle of the vineyards, with deep wine heritage, a literary past, and the mountain overhead. Visitors come for the tasting country and the scenery and stay for the small-town stone streets and the easy pace. It is refined without being precious, and beautiful in every season.
