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North Block
Yountville, California, United States · Independent · Grand Luxury
North Block sits in Yountville, the town founded by George C. Yount, the first Euro-American settler in Napa Valley, who planted the valley's first grapevines in 1839. Its 20 rooms are arranged like a Languedoc village square transplanted to the Napa benchlands, around a courtyard of lemon trees and hand-painted ceramic tiles. Jessup Cellars is two minutes on foot, The French Laundry four, and MICHELIN gave it Two Keys in 2024 and 2025.
- 20 rooms
- Opened 2009
- Neighborhood: Yountville village
About North Block
- North Block sits in Yountville, founded by George C. Yount, the first Euro-American settler in Napa Valley, who planted the valley's first grapevines in 1839.
- Its 20 rooms are arranged like a Languedoc village square transplanted to the Napa benchlands, with a courtyard of lemon trees and hand-painted ceramic tiles.
History
North Block opened in 2009 as a purpose-built boutique hotel on Washington Street in Yountville, the Napa Valley village that George C. Yount — the first Euro-American permanent settler in the valley — founded in the nineteenth century. Where Yount planted the valley's first grapevines in 1839, the town eventually became California's most restaurant-dense square mile, and North Block was conceived to anchor that culinary landscape with a lodging that matched its surroundings in sensibility rather than scale.
The design drew deliberately on Mediterranean precedents: sun-washed stucco, lemon trees in the courtyard, hand-painted ceramic tiles, and heavy European wood doors that open onto rooms arranged around a quiet inner garden. The result is less a conventional hotel than a small village square transplanted from the Languedoc to the Napa benchlands, with vineyards rolling away on every side.
For over a decade North Block quietly earned a reputation as Napa's most reliably elegant small hotel, known for its unhurried welcome, the quality of its twenty guest rooms — appointed in a cool grey-and-coffee palette with polished stone details — and its position within easy walking distance of the French Laundry, Bouchon, and a dozen other celebrated tables. In 2024 and again in 2025, the MICHELIN Guide awarded it Two Keys, recognizing it as one of the finest small luxury hotels in the country. The Italian restaurant on property extends the Mediterranean thread with housemade pastas and a wine list drawn from the surrounding valley.
The setting
North Block occupies 6757 Washington Street at the north end of Yountville, at the center of Napa Valley's most walkable culinary village. Jessup Cellars is two minutes on foot, Thomas Keller's The French Laundry four minutes, and Hill Family Estate eleven — a concentration of Michelin-starred dining and acclaimed tasting rooms unique in American wine country. Washington Street's promenade, lined with Bouchon Bistro and the 1870 Groezinger stone buildings of V Marketplace, forms an open-air luxury corridor near a cluster of landmark hospitality properties. North Block's twenty-room intimacy and vine-to-table immediacy embody the understated sophistication that defines Yountville as the valley's premier culinary destination.
Restaurants and bars
- North Block Restaurant (NBR) — Restaurant · seasonal cuisine · Chef Antonio Natal
Experiences
- Private cocktail class — Offered as an additional perk for full-property buyouts during the holiday season.
- Seasonal hot chocolate bar — Offered as an additional perk for full-property buyouts during the holiday season.
- Fireside evening with s'mores and dessert wines — Offered as an additional perk for full-property buyouts during the holiday season.
Amenities
- Spa
- Pool
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- MICHELIN Two Keys (2026)
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