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Napa Valley’s Sequoia Grove Winery
Five-Star Wine & Food Pairings What’s not to love? A 115-year-old barn set beneath the majesty of coastal redwood trees, where five-star food is paired with flagship high-end wines served by a welcoming and...
Napa’s finest Frank Family Vineyards
Setting the Standard for Napa Valley Entertaining Husband and wife vintners, Rich and Leslie Frank, fell in love with Napa Valley separately and fell in love at Frank Family Vineyards together. Before devoting...
Miner Family Winery Napa Valley
Unpretentious, Approachable, Inviting Small, family-owned wineries are at the core of what makes Napa Valley special, and there’s a lot to love about Miner Family Winery. Owner Dave Miner put it like this: “We like to have...
TRES SABORES Napa Valley
Passion, Purpose, and Palate Appeal—Discovered How can one woman’s dream stimulate people’s senses and encourage them to live a fulfilling life? Julie Johnson, the owner, winemaker, and chef of Tres Sabores (“the three...
Sullivan Rutherford Estate in Napa Valley
Carrying on the Legacy, Looking to the Future Often when family-owned and run businesses are sold, the very thing that made the company successful—the family—is overlooked, but that is not the case at Sullivan Rutherford...
Piña Napa Valley
WINEMAKER ANNA MONTICELLI The Piña ancestors arrived in the Napa Valley on wagon trains eight generations ago when the first vinifera plantings were barely in the ground. The family still owns and runs the Piña Napa Valley...
A Taste of History in Napa Valley
Three Historic Wineries - One Amazing Experience Spend a day like no other in Napa Valley’s Historic Wine Country. For anyone who loves Napa Valley wines and the region’s rich history, they will not want to miss one of its...
Napa Tracy Style
MOVE into YOUR Dream HOME USING PROP. 19 The current real estate market is crazy. Prices are high, there are not enough houses for sale, and interest rates on home loans remain low. With the dynamic shift of people working...
Be Bubbly
“There’s no place I’d rather be,” said Erin Riley, proprietor of Be Bubbly Napa, “and thank goodness, we’re still standing.” Raise a flute to welcome Napa’s first and only dedicated Champagne and sparkling wine lounge,...
Fantesca Estate and Winery
The Journey of Hope, Opportunity and Perseverance There’s no denying the challenges presented over the past year have been daunting in every facet of life. Global pandemics and regional fires burdened an already demanding...
Pride Mountain Vineyards
Pride Mountain Vineyards is situated on 235 acres of beautiful vineyard and forest land at the crest of the Mayacamas Mountains, where Napa County and Sonoma County meet. A handsome stone arch celebrates this alliance,...
Sherwin Family Vineyards
One of the great tragedies of the 2020 wildfires was the destruction of the Sherwin Family Vineyards winery on Spring Mountain. Built through the blood, sweat, and tears of its owner and winemaker Steve Sherwin, the winery...
Keenan Winery
MERLOT: Michael Keenan on His Favorite Varietal There is no mistaking what Michael Keenan thinks about his favorite grape. “Merlot is unquestionably one of the greatest varietals in the world,” the president and owner of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Wallis Family Estate
Wines That Inspire Wallis Family Estate’s origin story is a bit different from those of other Napa Valley wineries. Though Edward Wallis pilgrim- aged to Napa in 1975, like others who would eventually put the winemaking...
