Arizona’s Verde Valley

Arizona’s Verde Valley

No matter the wine, the region from which it comes took strides to fill that glass. In the New World of wine, the likes of Napa Valley didn’t happen overnight. Successive, wide-net planting of different grape varieties by immigrants in the 1800s, followed by setbacks...
Fairfield/Suisun Valley

Fairfield/Suisun Valley

Northern California residents and visitors may be familiar with Fairfield, California, the county seat of Solano County, as home to Travis Air Force Base, Anheuser-Busch, and Clorox – and as a shopping destination with its Solano Town Center and Cordelia Junction...
Napa Valley’s Vincent Thomas Connors

Napa Valley’s Vincent Thomas Connors

While most people spent the pandemic playing games to pass the time, Napa artist Vincent Thomas Connors invented one. Named TerraBall, the game is a unique cross between pool, shuffleboard, and golf and is a sort of silver lining from the 2017 fires when Connors lost...
Napa’s Prolific Beverage

Napa’s Prolific Beverage

Prolific Beverage has no vineyard, no winery, and no tasting room. Established in 2012, ahead of its time without bricks and mortar presence, the founding mission of this business was to produce a variety of small artisanal Napa wines for purchase online, and through...
Napa Valley’s Sound Advice

Napa Valley’s Sound Advice

Story By: Elizabeth Smith // Photos By: David Halloran, Sound Advice Hear and See What is Possible David Halloran founded SOUND ADVICE in 1995 with a passion for high-performance audio, video and control systems. The company’s name also has a story. “I created SOUND...
Bid to Win – Napa Tracy Style

Bid to Win – Napa Tracy Style

To say it is a new order for buyers in the world of real estate is an understatement — and not for the faint of heart. But whether you are buying your first home or your fifth investment property, the stakes are high to get your offer accepted. Almost all viable...
Napa Valley Lobster Co.

Napa Valley Lobster Co.

The last couple of years have been challenging for everyone, particularly for small business owners in the restaurant industry, such as Ali and Ben Koenig. But for this dynamic duo, those challenges have been met with a healthy perspective on what matters most and a...
Napa Wild

Napa Wild

Chef Kory Stewart and his family founded Napa Wild in 2017 to bring high-quality wild foods, seasonal produce, and rare ingredients from sustainable, local farms and forests to restaurants and homes in Napa Valley. It began as a wholesale distribution company, but the...
Napa Valley’s Best Tacos

Napa Valley’s Best Tacos

Tacos have an uncertain origin, but college professor Jeffrey M. Pilcher, who spent decades researching (and tasting) the history and evolution of Mexican cuisine, believes both the word and food originated with 18th-century Mexican silver miners. At the time, the...
Napa Valley’s ARCUDI WINES

Napa Valley’s ARCUDI WINES

Story By: Fran Miller // Photo By: Bob McClenahan A Vineyard Road Less Travelled: winemaker TONY ARCUDI From Naval missile navigation engineer to IBM product manager to award-winning winemaker, Tony Arcudi’s path to Napa Valley was not of the straight and narrow...