Grapegrower Andy Beckstoffer and his family have acquired part of an historic St. Helena vineyard that had been in the same family since 1874. Purchased for an undisclosed amount was 13.25 acres of the Bourn/Hayne Vineyard at Sulphur Springs and South Crane avenues.
Beckstoffer would not name the price paid, but said it was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per acre. He added the amount he paid was probably the second highest price for land that Ive ever heard of in the Napa Valley. Beckstoffer said he knows of only one higher price paid for vineyard land: the amount Francis Ford Coppola paid for the Inglenook property.
