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English lord selling Napa vineyard for US$35 million
Lord and Lady Perry Butler have put St Helena property Juslyn Vineyards on the market, with the couple’s wine inventory included in the price.
The owners of Juslyn Vineyards have taken a novel approach to selling their Napa Valley property, which they hope will help them to find a buyer.
Lord and Lady Butler have arranged a lot-line adjustment which effectively splits the estate into two parcels. The move means that interested parties can choose to buy either the 11-hectare planted vineyard, or the couple’s seven-bedroom house with 5,000 bottle wine cellar – for US$17.5 million apiece. The option also remains for a buyer to buy both parcels together.
Having acquired Juslyn Vineyards in 1997, the couple is now looking to retire and downsize. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the pair have previously run into problems trying to sell the property as wine businesses did not necessarily want to purchase the entire estate.
There is not currently a winemaking facility on site. However, the property does have a license in place to install. one Over the 22 vintages that wines have made using grapes gown on the estate, expressions have consistently achieved critic scores ranging between 91 and 98.
The vineyard itself, located on Spring Mountain, has 29 planted hectares (six of which are densely planted), with a further six acres that could also be planted.
Crucially, says Lord Butler, “we have water, and this is a really big deal in Napa.”
The vineyard has an 800-foot well that can yield 200 gallons of water per minute. Fireproofing upgrades, including a better water management system, were carried out on the property following the 2020 Glass Fire in Northern California which devastated many nearby properties but which spared Juslyn’s vines.
Butler hopes the new buyer will keep the Juslyn name and perhaps even keep him on as a consultant. “I would prefer that I’m involved because I planted every single vine,” he told the Chronicle. “I know the rows, I know the blocks.”
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