A sprawling vineyard compound on Napa's Mount Veeder has hit the market for $15 million, pairing a 1932 farmhouse with two separate residential campuses, a timber-framed Apple Barn and a steel-framed Art Barn tucked into the hillside. The property spans contiguous parcels along Mount Veeder Road and includes acreage planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot that has been farmed by one of Napa's best-known wineries for more than a decade.
According to The Real Deal, the estate totals 228 acres across five contiguous parcels in the Mount Veeder AVA, with 17 of those acres dedicated to vineyards. The listing itself, posted on the Coldwell Banker Homes site, describes the property somewhat differently, citing 228.04 acres and 17.32 vineyard acres planted to the same three varietals. Hall Wines, which has farmed the fruit, separately describes its Beller Vineyard as spanning 17.1 acres, and the discrepancies between the figures have not been reconciled.
Hall Wines has leased the vineyard since 2012 and bottles the fruit as a single-vineyard Cabernet under the Beller vineyard name, per the same Real Deal report. The listing, which came online Thursday, is held by Erin Lail and Bert Casten of Coldwell Banker Brokers of the Valley at the property's address spanning 3720-3790 Mount Veeder Road.
A Farmhouse Built in 1932, Priced at Over $2,500 a Square Foot
The residential heart of the estate dates back to 1932 and contains 13 bedrooms and seven bathrooms spread across nearly 6,000 square feet, according to the report. At the $15 million asking price, that works out to roughly $2,513 per square foot, the outlet calculated.
The property is organized into what the listing calls an Upper Campus and a Lower Campus. The Upper Campus, per the Coldwell Banker Homes listing, includes a two-bedroom main house, a guest cottage, three guest cabins, a bath house and the timber-framed Apple Barn with its own wine cellar. The Lower Campus adds a four-bedroom log cabin and a three-bedroom caretaker's house alongside a pool, tennis court, bocce court and a reconstructed French barn with an outdoor kitchen.
A separate parcel adjacent to the main compound adds another layer of amenities. The Real Deal describes it as a 71-acre parcel holding a steel-framed Art Barn, a climbing wall and a yoga deck, while the Coldwell Banker Homes listing puts the same parcel at 71.46 acres with an Art Barn, climbing wall and a panoramic viewing and yoga deck.
Property Records Point to a Trust Tied to Former Goldman Sachs Partners
Property records cited by The Real Deal link the estate to a trust tied to Ron Beller and Jennifer Moses. Beller was previously a Goldman Sachs partner who went on to co-found the hedge fund Peloton Partners in 2005, a firm that collapsed at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis. Moses, for her part, was a Goldman Sachs managing director and later served as CEO of CentreForum. The pair moved from London to San Francisco in 2009, according to Forbes.
Napa's Luxury Market Draws Tech and AI Money
The listing lands amid what The Real Deal describes as Silicon Valley players and others in the AI sphere snapping up luxe estates across Napa Valley. Brokers in the region have reported a wave of tech and AI-related buyers moving into the luxury segment, part of a broader real estate boom tied to AI-related wealth in the valley.
That appetite has shown up in recent sale prices elsewhere in Napa. Earlier in November, a 7,900-square-foot Napa mansion sold for $13.9 million, more than $4 million above its list price, the outlet reported; property records identified Vineyard Knolls LLC, linked to Clare Malllett, as the seller. In October, the roughly 40-acre Spring Mountain Estate and Juslyn Vineyards property in St. Helena sold for $10.92 million, according to Patch. A separate 40-acre vineyard listing at 3801 Mount Veeder Road, with about 14 acres planted, notes prior fruit sales reportedly reaching approximately $11,000 per ton, according to the San Francisco Fine Homes listing.
Not every corner of Napa's wine economy is riding the same wave, however. The Press Democrat reports that American AgCredit acquired Napa's Signorello Estate at a Nov. 6 foreclosure auction, applying a $22.3 million credit bid toward the purchase. The lender's recent filings show vineyards and wineries accounted for 14.4% of its unpaid loan balances, about $3.2 billion of $21.8 billion in total outstanding loans, and cited weak demand and high inventories as key challenges facing the industry. Nonaccrual loans at the lender rose to $481.4 million, or 2.2% of loans, from $400.2 million, or 1.9%, a year earlier.
