How do you get into Back Room Wines?
We have not confirmed it. Back Room Wines is in the directory because it period concealment name, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Back Room Wines
How the venue describes itself: “Downtown Napa wine shop & wine tasting bar focused on small production & hard to find wines. We ship wine nationally. Where the winemakers and somms shop!” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Back Room Wines occupies the First National Bank, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 92001277. The listing is a federal record maintained by the National Park Service, and the nomination document is the primary source for the building’s architectural and social history.
National Register reference 92001277 · NPS nomination document
Where Back Room Wines sits
Back Room Wines is in Napa, California, in the county of the same name, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Napa — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the California page until there are more.
California holds 173 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our California speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in California
California came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in California.
What the newspapers recorded in California
Searching the Library of Congress run of California newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from California:
- La prensa, March 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, June 14, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, October 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, November 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Back Room Wines by phone on (707) 226-1378, through its own website, and on Instagram.
The address is 1000 Main St, Napa, CA 94559. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Back Room Wines we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, a published drinks list, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold opening hours or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name names a back room and calls it a room rather than a bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.