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Featuring Napa’s best wines, wineries, and winemakers
Feb 13, 2025
Marchelle Wines: A Passion for Rarity
A Carbonic Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier Worth Lining Up For
Jan 30, 2025
Solvang Deserves More Than a Sideways Glance
Wine Tasting and Julefest in Little Denmark
Dec 13, 2024
“Eat Dirt” at Priest Ranch Winery
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Focus on Food Pairings at Priest Ranch Tasting Room
There are (at least) three delicious reasons why the Priest Ranch tasting room in the heart of Yountville will please a person’s palate: bacon, caviar, and chocolate. Here’s a hint: each one is the tasty star of an...
Forks and Corks 2024
Nestled in the heart of California's wine country, Napa Valley is a world-renowned destination for food and wine enthusiasts, offering a unique blend of world-class wines and culinary delights. In this issue, we celebrate...
The Lincoln + Ace & Vine
Visitors to Napa Valley are often surprised to find that most businesses close relatively early. After a day filled with wine tasting, guests typically enjoy a leisurely dinner, only to realize that most local restaurants...
Side Trip: Bodega Bay
As the warm summer months begin to encompass the Bay area, a day or weekend reprieve to the cool, breezy temperatures and laid-back vibe of Bodega Bay is a popular choice for many who live inland. If it weren’t for the 1963...
There’s No Place Like Sicily
With its prime location in the Mediterranean Sea and sunny skies, Sicily has been a beacon of winemaking for thousands of years. Influences from Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Normans, Arabs, and Romans have each left...
Mt. Veeder
In a region filled with endless views of sprawling valley-floor vines, it may come as a wonder that any producer in Napa Valley takes to the rugged terrain of the mountains for growing grapes. But for many producers, the...
Champagne Tasting Stars
Over 400 years ago, Pierre Pérignon joined the Benedictine Abbey of Hautvillers in the Champagne region of France. As a monk, he was given the honorary title of Dom and the prestigious position of cellar master. As the...
Jenner-By-The-Sea
Jenner, California, officially Jenner-by-the-Sea, is just that: by the sea. It hugs the hills of the dramatic Pacific coastline on its west side, has the iconic Pacific Coast Highway, Highway 1, running through its center,...
Volcano to the Sea
Romans sometimes call their city Caput Mundi—the capital of the world in Latin. And for centuries, it was just that. Romans famously moved, traveled, and conquered lands across the mundi, but there was nowhere more Roman...
Wine Regions Series: Santé!
For visitors to Alsace, an appreciation of a strong sense of identity is one of the key takeaways. At the top of the list of things for which Alsace is known, there’s food and wine: specifically, excellent white wine to...
Holiday Desserts Deserve Festive Pairings
With the holiday season approaching, it’s time to start thinking about what favorites will be served on this year’s table. For many families, it’s all about tradition, pulling out grandma’s stuffing recipe, leaning into...
Hertelendy Vineyards
To an outsider, it all seems so easy. Grow some grapes, harvest, crush and ferment them, bottle the juice, and slap on a label. But the truth is, winemaking is not necessarily for the faint of heart, something Ralph...
Harvest At Grgich
“At Grgich Hills, we grow grapes like my grandfather did, farming without chemicals and pesticides,” said Ivo Jeramaz, winemaker and VP of Vineyards and Production at the Rutherford-based winery. Jeramaz began his...
40 Years of Terroir
Canard Vineyard has been making hand-crafted estate wines in Napa Valley since 1984. However, it has remained a bit of a secret as they produce a very limited number of cases each year and, until recently, were not open to...
Tempranillo
Revered as Spain’s most important grape, the thick-skinned, black Tempranillo grape is particularly beloved for its showing in Rioja wines, of which it comprises the majority blend with other regional red grapes such as...
Porto
It’s not a place. It’s a feeling. Residents and tourists share this description of northern Portugal’s Old City of Porto, and its magnificence cannot be disguised. That declaration resonates each morning until the late...
Calistoga’s Vault
As proprietors and partners of Calistoga’s VAULT, one of Napa Valley’s most unique wine-tasting venues, Trevor Mallett and Mario Sculatti feature wines from five of their best vintner friends in addition to their...
Hess Persson Estates
At the top of Mount Veeder, housed in a historic winery built in the 1800s, is Hess Persson Estates. Ideally placed for stunning panoramic views of the surrounding slopes and Napa Valley below, the estate is a popular...
Elevage Luxury Wine Tours
Elevage Luxury Wine Tours proprietor Jorge Guzman knows Napa. He grew up playing in the vineyards in which he eventually worked. He knows every backroad and every winery and every hotel and restaurant. Cherished local...
Elegant Wine Tours
Liam Mac Cana launched Elegant Wine Tours in 2017 with three vehicles and barely any staff. He did it all, booking and planning tours, driving, and everything in between. It was not an easy task to break into and find...
