Inside HALL

Raise Your Standards to HALL

Go behind-the-scenes to see how winemaking is more than a job, its a lifestyle. We will feature our annual events, rare interviews, new tour and tasting experiences, wine trends, happenings in the Valley, wine country fashion, and recent wine scores - all while having a little fun along the way. Cheers!

The History of HALL's Historic Bergfeld Building

Peterson used the top floor of the building as a wine production facility, and the bottom floor as a cellar. Fun fact:  the stone walls of the Bergfeld helped to keep the wines cool and the perfect temperature for aging!

When Napa Valley was invaded by phylloxera in 1890 (a small insect that feeds on grape vines and nearly destroyed the Napa Valley Wine Industry), Peterson sold the winery to Robert Bergfeld, which is where the building derives it’s name.

Bergfeld promptly sold the property to a Theodore Grier, who was the director of the newly formed Grape Growers Associates of California and very against prohibition. Grier increased the production size of the winery by ten-fold and tried to continue winemaking even after prohibition in 1920, but was ultimately sent to prison.  

 

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