Today Hewitt Vineyard is renowned as a single vineyard wine; the first such bottling was created in 2000. However, this vineyard site has a rich history of being a component of celebrated wines for more than a half-century
The site that is now Hewitt Vineyard was first planted to vines in 1880, but it was in 1962 that William A. Hewitt, head of Deere & Company (John Deere) purchased Hewitt Vineyard and enlisted the assistance of famed winemaker André Tchelistcheff in replanting the site to Cabernet Sauvignon. For a number of years, grapes from Hewitt Vineyard were an important component in many great wines from Rutherford, however, the inaugural 2001 Hewitt Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon was the first single-vineyard wine produced from this historic spot.