Napa Harvest Season

Napa Harvest Season

Through the Lens of Local Napa Photographer, Bob McClenahan Every year from August through October, vintners and vineyard workers collaborate closely with mother nature to farm the year’s grape vineyards to their peak of ripeness and nurture them through a successful...
Downtown Napa Rides

Downtown Napa Rides

Mike Flohr is an ideas man. He is already a successful small business owner and a dedicated teacher at Vintage High School, so after discovering a complimentary, tip-based ride service while visiting Scottsdale, Arizona, he realized that it was something special. Mike...
Sweetie Pies Pivots

Sweetie Pies Pivots

Satisfying More Than a Sweet Tooth Toni Chiappetta took a slight detour this past spring from baking her popular pies, cakes, and cookies. The longtime proprietor of the Napa Mill-located Sweetie Pies saw a need, and she filled it. Chiapetta turned her bakery into a...
The Urban Track

The Urban Track

Downtown Napa’s Bustling Wine Scene It’s a relatively new phenomenon, but downtown Napa has become a prime location to taste wines. The compact area contains approximately 40 tasting venues, including single-winery tasting rooms, multiple winery collectives,...
Jessel Miller

Jessel Miller

Jessel Miller is having the time of her life. She has spent decades at the heart and soul of Napa Valley’s art world, owning and operating the beloved Jessel Gallery on Atlas Peak Road since 1984. Jessel originally envisioned the former whiskey distillery as a giant...
Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Turns 50

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Turns 50

The incredible success story of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is like a fairy tale—one that’s full of propitious, delicious magic and extraordinary timing. A true American legacy, the brand was born 11 years  before  Napa Valley became California’s first American...
2020 Annual Gift Guide

2020 Annual Gift Guide

Napa Valley gift ideas for everyone on your list!   NAPA VALLEY JEWELERS A delicate arc of gold balls,  a radiant mini-cluster of diamonds, a chain of perfect gold circles; This is how Gabriel interprets Bujukan, the Balinese act of persuasion achieved by a...
The Ultimate Gift Experience

The Ultimate Gift Experience

In pursuit of a ‘life well lived’, creating an environment fastened to the earth lies at the heart of Gabrielle Collection taste +. “Everything relates back to our philosophy,” expressed Gabrielle Leonhard O’Connell, Proprietor   of  ...
Floating Over Napa Valley

Floating Over Napa Valley

As grapes turn into wine through the magic of art plus science, so too the lift of a hot air balloon. Because the air filling the inside of the balloon is heated, and therefore less dense than the air outside, it’s up, up, and away. Lift is maintained by the pilot’s...
Discovering Hipness and History in Sonoma

Discovering Hipness and History in Sonoma

Anywhere one goes in the town of Sonoma, they’re surrounded by history. Indigenous people lived and hunted these lands in the shadow of the Mayacamas Mountains for 12,000 years. Franciscan friars built their last mission here in 1823.  And in 1844, General...