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Yountville, California is a popular vacation and travel choice for seniors interested in fine dining, wine, spas and shopping.

Yountville CA History

During the early 1800’s, Mexico owned the area that now makes up Yountville. In 1831, George Calvert Yount became the first American settler in the Napa Valley. In 1836, Yount obtained a land grant from the Mexican government, the first such grant to be awarded to a United States citizen.

Yount named his land Caymus Rancho after a tribe of Native Americans in the area. Yount laid out the town’s first boundaries in the early 1850’s. He also planted the first grape vines in the valley. By 1855, he had a surveyor lay out the town, which he named Sebastopol, although there was already a town nearby with the same name. Yount died in 1867. Two years later, the town was renamed Yountville in his honor.

New immigrant Gottleib Groezinger, purchased twenty acres of land (the Gottleib addition) from the Yount estate in 1870. By 1874, he had built a winery, barrel room and distillery. The buildings remained a winery until 1955. For eleven years the winery lay dormant until it was brought to its present state. Yountville incorporated as a town 1965.

Yountville California – Some of the Finest Restaurants in the World

Today, Yountville California has many fine shops, restaurants, art galleries and wineries. It is home to some of the finest restaurants in the world and is very popular with seniors who enjoy wine tours and tastings, festivals, hot air ballooning, shopping and spa treatments.