In a rugged wedge of California’s Mayacamas Mountains, coyotes, bears and deer roam freely, as if they own the forests covering its unyielding terrain. But then they have had little indication that they are not the rightful proprietors of this land over the past three decades; its owner has left them largely undisturbed. Amid thick woodlands, it is as if Harlan Estate is a land that Napa forgot, and which, if founder and proprietor Bill Harlan’s “200-year plan” comes to fruition, will remain so, except for the few acres of precious vines that have turned this once-overlooked part of the Napa Valley into the maker of some of the world’s most expensive and sought-after wines
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