Four Hundred Wineries in Thirty Miles.
Private Jet Charter to Napa Valley.
Napa County Airport sits at the southern end of the valley, fifteen minutes from downtown Napa and twenty-five from Yountville — the drive from the airport to the first tasting appointment is shorter than the security line at SFO. The constraint here is not access, it is timing. Harvest starts in late July now and runs through October, and aircraft parking, hotel rooms and the tables worth having fill in the same few weeks. Peak arranges charters into APC and the surrounding fields with all-inclusive pricing and no membership fees. We arrange — you fly.
Nearly every tasting in the valley is by appointment, and the hardest table in the country releases on the first of the month for the month after. Tell us those dates and we will build the flight around them.
Harvest Is Worth Planning Around
Harvest, late July through October: The valley works around the clock. Crews pick sparkling and white grapes before dawn while it is still cold, cabernet comes in last through October, and the floor of the valley smells of fermentation for weeks. The 2026 harvest began on July 21. Wineries open their crush pads during these weeks — sorting tables running, barrel samples drawn straight from tank, punch-downs you can watch from a foot away. It is the only time of year you see the wine being made rather than poured.
What fills up: Aircraft parking, hotel rooms and the tables worth having, all in the same few weeks. Three to six weeks out is the honest lead time. The Calistoga Harvest Table on September 13 puts a thousand feet of table down the middle of town with more than forty wineries pouring — plan the flight around it, not into it.
BottleRock, Memorial Day weekend: The heaviest single weekend outside harvest. The 2027 festival runs May 28–30 at the Napa Valley Expo in downtown Napa, walking distance from the hotels that will already be full.
February and March: Mustard blooms between the vines, the tasting rooms are quiet, and both aircraft and rooms are available on short notice. If you have flexibility, this is the value window.
Outside those bands, Napa is an easy market — same-week availability and short taxi times.
Tasting Here Is by Appointment
Napa County's use-permit rules mean most estates cannot take walk-ins. That sounds like friction. It is the reason a tasting here is a seated, hosted ninety minutes with a named person and a specific set of bottles rather than a queue at a bar. Book three appointments a day, four at the outside — the fifth is where the day stops being enjoyable.
What the appointment buys: the hand-dug caves at Schramsberg, making sparkling wine on the same site since 1862; verticals pulled from a library that goes back decades; barrel samples during harvest that will not be in bottle for another two years. The valley's most sought-after cabernet is sold by allocation list and never poured to the public at all — worth knowing before you build an itinerary around it.
Send us the appointment times. We build the flight around them, not the other way round.
The Rest of the Valley
Dawn, from a balloon: Launches go up from Yountville and Calistoga at first light — about an hour over the vineyards while the mist is still on the valley floor, then breakfast and a glass of sparkling once you are back on the ground. Book it for your first morning; weather cancels flights and you want the second chance.
Calistoga, in the mud: The northern end of the valley sits on geothermal springs. Indian Springs mines its own volcanic ash on site and has run an Olympic-sized mineral pool since 1913. Spa Solage paints the mud on rather than sinking you in it. Either way you are done for the afternoon, which is the point.
On wheels and on foot: Bikes along the Silverado Trail, golf at Silverado Resort, the Napa Valley Wine Train up the middle of the valley, Old Faithful Geyser at the top of the road.
Art between the vines: Hall in St. Helena keeps the outdoor sculpture. The Donum Estate, over the county line in the Carneros, holds one of the more serious private collections in the state — twenty-five minutes from the airport.
Where to Stay
The valley floor: Auberge du Soleil holds fifty rooms on a Rutherford hillside and the terrace most people picture when they picture Napa. It closes for the whole of January, so a winter trip goes elsewhere. Meadowood is thirty-six rooms across two hundred and fifty acres above St. Helena — smaller than it was before the Glass Fire, rebuilt, and quieter for it.
Calistoga, at the top of the valley: Four Seasons Resort and Residences Napa Valley runs eighty-five rooms with a working winery on the property and Auro on site. Solage is the looser version of the same postcode, built around a twenty-thousand-square-foot bathhouse. Indian Springs has been filling its mineral pool from its own geothermal wells since 1913 and costs a fraction of either.
Closest to the airport: Stanly Ranch, in the Carneros, is ten minutes from APC — you are in the room before the crew has finished the paperwork. Carneros Resort and Spa is seven miles out and easier on the invoice. In downtown Napa, Archer Hotel Napa puts you inside walking distance of dinner rather than driving distance.
What actually constrains it: September carries the highest room rates of the year, and the properties worth having are gone two to three months ahead. Minimum stays apply on weekends and event dates, and on peak dates the smaller inns move to non-refundable rates. The room is the harder booking of the two. Secure it, then send us the dates.
Where to Eat
The hard one: The French Laundry has held three Michelin stars for eighteen consecutive years, and a Green Star alongside them. Nine courses that change daily, much of it out of the garden across the street. Tables release on Tock on the first of the month at 5:00 p.m. Pacific for the month following, and they are gone in seconds. Set the alarm. A confirmed table there is a better anchor for a flight plan than a flight plan is for a table.
The rest of the stars: Napa County holds four Michelin-starred rooms inside a thirty-mile stretch of highway. Past Yountville there is The Restaurant at Auberge du Soleil in Rutherford, for the terrace and the view down the valley; PRESS in St. Helena, for the wood-fired grill and a ten-thousand-bottle cellar the house bills as the largest collection of Napa wine in the world; and Auro at the Four Seasons in Calistoga — seven courses, and it held its star through a change of chef this spring.
Bookable inside the month: Kenzo pours a six-course kaiseki at a counter that seats very few people, and releases tables exactly thirty days out. La Toque in downtown Napa holds a Wine Spectator Grand Award, one of roughly ninety in the world. Neither has to be planned a season ahead.
When the day has run long: Bouchon and Bistro Jeanty in Yountville, The Charter Oak in St. Helena — Christopher Kostow’s room, and where Meadowood now sends its own guests — and Gott’s Roadside on Highway 29, which takes no reservation at all.
Why Fly Private to Napa Valley
Four Fields. No Connections. No Security Lines.
Built for the Day Trip
Napa is a little over an hour from Los Angeles and twenty minutes from the South Bay. Lunch in Yountville and home by dinner is an ordinary itinerary here, not an ambitious one.
Vetted the Way You'd Expect
Every operator we use is pre-cleared through ARGUS TripCheq and Wyvern before your name hits the manifest. We'd rather over-verify than leave you wondering.
Bring the Whole Group
A winery buyout, a board offsite, a wedding party heading to Calistoga. Peak arranges charters from turboprops to airliners, with no membership fees and all-inclusive pricing — and cases of wine travel home in the hold, not in checked baggage.
THE AIRPORTS PEAK USES
Which field you want depends on where in wine country you are actually going:
Napa County (APC): The valley’s own field, at its southern end. Longest runway 5,930 feet. Three FBOs — Skyservice, Atlantic Aviation and Napa Jet Center. Fifteen minutes to downtown Napa, twenty-five to Yountville, forty to St. Helena, fifty to Calistoga.
Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County (STS): A 6,000-by-150-foot main runway and Sonoma Jet Center on the field. The better choice when the itinerary sits on the Sonoma side — twenty minutes to Healdsburg, about forty to Calistoga over the hill.
Buchanan Field, Concord (CCR): The East Bay alternate, roughly forty minutes to downtown Napa. Useful when APC is saturated during crush.
Oakland (OAK) and San Francisco (SFO): Long runways for transcontinental and international legs that APC cannot send out at full fuel. Budget an hour to an hour and fifteen by road.
With access to 5,000+ airports across the US and Canada, we’ll position you wherever the rest of your trip makes sense.
Napa Valley Charter Questions, Answered
Which airport do you fly into for Napa Valley?
Napa County Airport (APC) at the southern end of the valley — about fifteen minutes from downtown Napa, twenty-five to Yountville, forty to St. Helena and fifty to Calistoga. Skyservice, Atlantic Aviation and Napa Jet Center are all on the field. Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County (STS) is the better choice if your itinerary sits on the Sonoma side.
What size aircraft can land at Napa County Airport (APC)?
APC’s longest runway is 5,930 feet. Light, midsize and super-midsize jets operate there routinely. Heavy and long-range aircraft can use the field, but a warm-afternoon departure on a long leg may be weight-limited — we run those numbers before we quote, not after.
How long is the flight to Napa Valley?
Roughly an hour and a quarter from Los Angeles, about two hours from Bozeman, and five or so from the New York area flying westbound into the headwind. Peak arranges charters across 5,000+ airports in the US and Canada.
When is the busiest time to fly private into Napa Valley?
Harvest — late July through October. The 2026 harvest began on July 21 with the first sparkling-wine grapes, and cabernet comes in last, through October. Harvest fills the airport and the hotel rooms at the same time, and both book weeks out. BottleRock over Memorial Day weekend is the heaviest single weekend outside harvest; the 2027 festival runs May 28–30 at the Napa Valley Expo.
What is there to do in Napa Valley besides wine tasting?
A sunrise balloon flight over the valley floor, the volcanic-ash mud baths and geothermal pools in Calistoga, four Michelin-starred restaurants inside thirty miles of highway — including The French Laundry — the Napa Valley Wine Train, golf at Silverado and bikes on the Silverado Trail. Tell us the plan and we will build the flight times around it.
Can Peak arrange ground transport and catering in Napa Valley?
Yes. Ground transport, catering, pet-friendly cabins and crew coordination are arranged as part of the charter. Tell us the winery appointments and dinner reservations and we will build the flight times around them.
Does Peak charge membership fees?
No. Peak is a pilot-founded charter broker. You pay for the flight, not the privilege of asking about one.
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