Harlan Estate hillside

Harlan Estate's vineyard is a hillside site, not benchland: steep, terraced, expensive to farm and planted to about 40 of the property's 240 acres. The estate reports the ratio itself as the reason for its small production.

At the going rate for vineyard land in this region, a site this size would be worth roughly $71,877,000–$119,892,000. Famous vineyards like this one almost never change hands, and when they do the price is far higher.