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Featuring Napa’s best wines, wineries, and winemakers
Oct 27, 2025
Autumn Pursuits at St. Supéry
Limited-time tours and tastings give visitors an inside look at their busiest season.
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St. Supéry Estate
Located in Napa’s renowned Rutherford region, St. Supéry Estate Vineyards and Winery combines French tradition with Napa Valley terroir, a classic combo that makes for an amazing wine tasting experience. Just as the French...
Fortunati Vineyards
Spring is the start of rosé season, and finding a Napa Valley Rosé is exciting. Discovering a great Napa Valley Rosé is thrilling, if not downright lucky. Fortunati Winery makes an award-winning rosé that is like...
Sequoia Grove
It’s not often a winery’s first release hits it out of the park and continues the magic decades later. Sequoia Grove has achieved just that. Their flagship varietal, cabernet sauvignon, was deemed the “Best American...
The Life and Legacy of Mike Grgich
“André Tchelistcheff took a slow drag from his cigarette and looked thoughtfully into the intelligent eyes of the equally diminutive man seated before him. Wine was not the only thing these two globetrotters had in common....
The Future of California’s Bordeaux-Producing Regions
In recent years, since California has seen a surge of heatwaves and wildfires in winegrowing regions across the state, there has been talk of the future of California grape growing. In particular, writers and critics have...
Elizabeth Spencer Winery
At the far end of the small parking area next to the Elizabeth Spencer Winery, a sandwich board with the handwritten words “Kitchen Memories Collection” signals visitors to enter. There’s been a lot of excitement at the...
Anderson’s Conn Valley
On more than one occasion, Todd Anderson, owner/grower/winemaker at Anderson’s Conn Valley, has heard from customers, ‘This was amazing… and the best experience we’ve ever had wine tasting!’ The cave experience where Todd...
Kenefick Ranch Winery
In 1970, a San Francisco neurosurgeon visited Napa Valley for the first time, and as happens with most introductory trips to wine country, he fell in love with it. Eight years later, Dr. Tom Kenefick discovered and...
Wine Country Refuge at Clif Family
If imitation is the best form of flattery, Clif Family has proven so by its emulation of the Rifugios of the Italian Alps. Guests at their St. Helena tasting rooms typically arrive by automobile, but there are also...
Stark Advantage
Scotti Stark moved to Napa Valley from Texas shortly after Food & Wine Magazine bestowed the Best Sommelier award on his team at Pappas Bros. Steakhouse in Houston, Texas. He began his journey in Napa in 2004 as the...
Newton Vineyard
In a valley defined by agricultural expression, Bordeaux varietals thrive as Mother Nature creates a sense of place, capturing quality and character from vineyard to bottle. For Newton Vineyard, craftsmanship, precision,...
Napa’s New Frontier Wine Company
With its status as America’s top food and wine destination—and with well over 500 wineries to visit—calling any experience in Napa Valley “new” verges on hyperbole, but that is precisely what New Frontier Wine Company has...
The Exquisite Expanse of Alexander Valley
As the largest AVA in Sonoma County, Alexander Valley is best known for its superior Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux blends grown in areas of Healdsburg, Geyserville, Cloverdale, Jimtown, and Maacama. Recognizable wineries...
Zinfandel: Napa’s Treasure Trove
by Melissa Vogt | Photo above courtesy of Chateau Montelena Zinfandel vines have been rooted in California soils since the mid-1880s as far south as Paso Robles and as far north as Napa Valley and Sonoma County. Its...
Sam’s General Store
Over 150 years ago, California’s first millionaire, Samuel Brannan, envisioned Calistoga as a resort town for wealthy city folks drawn to the area’s hot springs. He was instrumental as the town’s founder and for pulling the...
THE BIALE FAMILY LEGACY: Black Chickens and Zinfandel
BY MARK GUDGEL | PHOTOS COURTESY OF BIALE FAMILY VINEYARDS “Buongiorno. This is Antonio. I need four dozen eggs and a gallina nera.” “Gallina nera? But sir, we only have leghorns—white chickens.” “Just...
KNIGHTS BRIDGE WINERY: So Much Below the Surface
BY MARK GUDGEL | PHOTOS BY MIKE LARSON Just north of Calistoga, where Mount St Helena looms larger than ever over the warm, jagged hillsides that have proven to be some of the most fertile lands in all of...
KASCADIA WINE MERCHANTS
Introducing the Wine Gems of Canada to the U.S BY FRANCIE LOW | PHOTOS BY ALINA ROZ PHOTOGRAPHY Of the many great wine regions in the world to experience, there is a must-add to the list: the Okanagan Valley in...
A SLEEPING GIANT AWAKENS
BY MARK GUDGEL | PHOTO COURTESY OF DEARDEN WINES “There are five hundred places to go in Napa Valley. So we feel privileged when people choose us,” said Sam Dearden, son of Chris Dearden, who after years of toil...
Frattey and Frattey Shams of Anderson Valley
On a leisurely drive from Napa Valley to the hills of Anderson Valley along scenic highway 128, views of old oak trees, vineyards, and the Mayacamas Mountain range impress. The best way to take it all in is to roll down the...
