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Located in the heart of the Napa Valley, Picayune Cellars is a small winery dedicated to making wines of outstanding quality that are also exceptional values. French Native, Claire Ducrocq Weinkauf, owner and winemaker invites you to discover her take on the Napa lifestyle in downtown Calistoga. The tasting room and extensive curated mercantile store welcomes you seven days a week.
More often than not I refer to myself as a wine drinker before a winemaker. As a result, I only make wines that I am excited about and eager to drink and share personally! Stylistically, I embrace the purity and intensity of California fruit yet I never drink only one glass of wines so I focus on juiciness, balance and finesse in the palate.
Our apparel collection is an eclectic selection from Claire’s personal taste and decision to support family owned businesses!
We hope those socks will make you laugh as much as we do. There is something to say about finding a fun and practical present for people we love.
The quality of these socks is equal to the hilarity of them, and the company that produces them is committed to make YOU happy.
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Currently the ledger art of award winning artist Terrance Guardipee from the Blackfeet nation adorns the wall of the store. I have been a collector of his work since I first met him. I have had the great chance of collaborating with him to create the one of a kind label of my Obsidian wine.
Founded in 2011 Picayune Cellars is a négociant style winery dedicated to making wines of outstanding quality that are also exceptional values. Building on her relationships with some of wine country’s most respected winemakers and growers, Claire assembles wines from Napa Valley and the Sonoma Coast for Picayune. The key on the label represents the idea of “Unlocking Secret Wines from California.”
Discover amazing small lots of wines. My process: I sit down, taste and blend until I think this is the wine I want to share with my friends and family. The wines are finished, filtered and bottled in Napa.Picayune is a labor of love; it is a small project focusing on delivering high quality wines at a competitive price.
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Discover Claire’s curated selection of unique products, with an emphasis on small, family-run, (woman!) operated businesses in France and the United States. Select items include Native American and Western art, French and Italian leather purses, Tableware, award-winning French knives, Pendleton blankets, and other gift items. The Mercantile also features works by contemporary visual artists and painters.
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“For me, great wine is enhanced by music, food and the surroundings in which you experience it," says Weinkauf. “We’ve tried to create a space that’s enticing to the senses, and that is also a bit of a hidden gem..” Located walking distance from Calistoga's best resorts, our tasting room and mercantile store offer a variety of options to host you and your party.
VisitIf you have been looking for an easy, no trick just benefits wine club, this is it. You pick 6 or 12 bottles, you receive 3 shipments a year and you get to personalize each shipments. Club members benefits include discounts, invitation to private events, journeys to France, winemaker dinners and more. If wine club is not for you, we also offer subscriptions.
Being a negociant winery gives me a lot of room to have an extensive and fun wine selection. From Champagne (Yes from France!) to Napa Valley Bordeaux blends with a stop in the Hyde Vineyard for Sauvignon Blanc, Mendocino for a French inspired rosé, to the Petaluma gap for Pinot noir and the Sierra Foothills for Rhône varietals, we have a lot to offer.
One of our favorite things at Picayune is to open the boxes as soon as they arrive because we never know what is going to be in it. A new scarf, artisan jewelry, Navajo rug , wine accessory, French purse, fun socks- Claire keeps the selection fun, eclectic and off the beaten path. Enjoy!
Mon - Thurs, 11am-6pm
Friday, 11am-8pm
Sat & Sun, 11am-7pm
1440 Lincoln Ave. Calistoga, CA 94515
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