Ranch With 2,000 Acres Lists in Napa Valley for $100 Million

After 87 years in the family, the owners of a 2,000-acre ranch in Napa Valley want to part with one of the region’s last great estates for $100 million.

Lindsey Wiseman and her husband, Andrew Green, have listed the sprawling Glendale Ranch at 750 Conn Valley Road, in the foothills east of St. Helena, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The property has been in Wiseman’s family since 1938. She took over control in 2020, and has worked full time on the ranch for a decade.

“When you drive through the gates, the rest of the world drops away,” she told the newspaper.

The ranch has four family houses; 40 acres of vineyards for Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Merlot and other varietals; a barn; workshop; winery; and extensive roads, according to listing agent Erin Lail of Coldwell Banker Brokers of the Valley.

The six-bedroom main house, a 3,300-square-feet Colonial known as the White House, dates to the 1880s, with original stained-glass windows.

The three other homes include a 1940s two-bedroom kit home that arrived at the ranch by railroad, Wiseman said, and two three-bedroom homes dating to the early 1900s.

There are also vegetable, herb and flower gardens, plus a 7-acre lake, two ponds and three wells.

A buyer could subdivide and develop the property, though Wiseman hopes that won’t be the case.

“My opinion is that it would be a huge mistake and really devastating,” she told the WSJ. “There is no other place like it in the Napa Valley.”

Lail said it’s rare to find a property spanning 3.14 square miles in the Wine Country region, where most of the ranches and land holdings have been sliced up over time.

“This is the brass ring,” she told the newspaper.

While $100 million is a huge price for a residential property in Napa, Lail said the value is complicated by the fact that it’s also home to a commercial vineyard, with larger vineyards in the area selling for more than $1 billion.

— Dana Bartholomew