Spring Mountain AVA-Making A Comeback

Spring Mountain AVA-Making A Comeback

For many wine enthusiasts, bigness in red wine is always a virtue – especially those opaque, jammy, blockbuster cabernets with plenty of tannins. It’s a style that’s dominated the story of Napa Valley reds for years. But an alternative Napa Valley style has also...
ONEHOPE WINE – Rooted in Purpose

ONEHOPE WINE – Rooted in Purpose

Thank Grandma Sylvia. When most women did not work outside the home, Grandma Sylvia started a home-based business in Cleveland, Ohio, selling market research to local companies. Her entrepreneurial spirit laid the building blocks that would be the foundation of...
Castellucci Napa Valley

Castellucci Napa Valley

Italian Family History in a Glass Antonio Castellucci’s fated San Francisco meeting with another first-generation Italian immigrant — whose family happened to be from the same small Calabrian town as Antonio’s—foretold the fortuity that was in store for him. He had...
Falcone Family Vineyards

Falcone Family Vineyards

Streamlined, Sustainable, Serious-But Never Stuffy “It’s just the two of us,” is how John and Helen Falcone described their small passion project just east of Templeton near Paso Robles. Yet, with backgrounds as Napa-based winemakers, the couple brings a solid...
A Tribute To Steven Spurrier (1941-2021)

A Tribute To Steven Spurrier (1941-2021)

When asked how California wines were viewed in France in 1976, Steven Spurrier replied, “California wines were not viewed. California wine did not exist.” In his memoir, A Life in Wine, Spurrier describes his introduction to wine at age 13. “The decanter was moved in...
Diamond Mountain Vineyard

Diamond Mountain Vineyard

A Journey To The Top Diamond Mountain Vineyard, under the stewardship of veteran winemaker Kevin Vecchiarelli and consulting winemaker Paul Hobbs, conveys the essence of this historic property which dates back to 1895. Situated high atop the summit for which it is...