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STAG’S LEAP Wine Cellars
In Honor of Steven Spurrier and The Judgment of Paris This year marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the infamous Judgment of Paris, which ranked two California wines above some of the most prestigious wines of Burgundy and...
Premiere Week-Napa Valley Vintners
RELEASE WEEK Unveils Winemaker Creativity The varietals and blends created for Premiere Napa Valley by Napa Valley’s winemakers are nearly always a revelation. Those who primarily craft a specific variety, such as Cabernet...
Cheers, The Good Life
Dear Friends, The excitement of another harvest season reminds us how fortunate we are to live and work here in the world’s premier wine region. In the wake of an extremely challenging year, Napa Valley is once again...
America’s First: Mimosa Royale
Inspired by a vision to create the perfect hand-crafted, premade beverage, Michel Rantissi Jr. introduced American’s first ready-to-drink Mimosa in January 2021. A combination of Moscato wines and 100% natural juice, the...
Napa Valley’s Patz & Hall
A Perfect Pairing As Frank Sinatra crooned, “Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can’t have one without the other…” When it comes to sparkling wine and...
Napa Valley’s Schermeister Winery
How One Tiny Winery in Sonoma Valley is Standing Out - and Selling Out Wander off the beaten Sonoma County wine path, and one might discover Schermeister Winery in the tiny hamlet of Glen Ellen, just minutes north of...
Napa Valley’s Honrama Cellars
A Father’s Dream and a Husband’s Promise It began with Honorio Ramirez Mata‘s dream to someday own a winery. A Mexican immigrant, he was a lifelong vineyard worker in the Napa Valley, and he talked about his dream with his...
Sonoma County — Its Stunning Diversity
WINE COUNTRY Illustrative of this topographical diversity are the region’s 18 American Viticultural Areas, each featuring unique weather and geography that directly correlate to every varietal made within every boundary....
Napa Valley’s Sill Family Vineyards
Divine Intervention Igor Sill is a bohemian-natured vigneron. A former private equity investor, he has been growing grapes, crafting wine, and living atop his Atlas Peak property for the past decade. Yet, he continues to...
Napa Valley’s Joel Aiken
Winemaker, Renaissance Man, Legend After becoming the historic third head winemaker at Beaulieu Vineyard in Rutherford starting in 1985, Joel Aiken produced a remarkable series of world-class wines that left lasting...
Napa Valley’s Winemaker — Chelsea Barrett
Materra | Cunat Family Vineyards Chelsea Barrett considered a career in architecture or medicine, but ultimately, winemaking drew her in. “I was interested in lots of different things, and I’m still interested in lots of...
Napa Valley’s Ralph Hertelendy
The Man, Wine and Vision Ralph Hertelendy describes himself as a Renaissance Man and overachiever. He speaks five languages, loves participating in sports (including skydiving and driving fast cars), is a classically...
Authentic Napa Valley at Pope Valley Winery
DRINKING IT ALL IN The truth is, wide-open spaces and panoramic vistas have a great deal more appeal than highways and traffic jams. To imagine the look of Northern California’s wine country when wine country was young,...
Napa Valley’s 601 Cellars
Taking a Chance and Beating the Odds Often it’s the most challenging feats in life that reap the greatest rewards, whether it be putting a man on the moon, developing a life-saving vaccine, or successfully producing...
Napa Valley’s O’Shaughnessy Winery
PERSONAL. PRIVATE. PICTURESQUE. Because no one arrives here by accident, everyone arrives here intentionally. That’s an integral part of the trailblazer story at O’Shaughnessy Estate Winery on Howell Mountain, an...
Napa Valley’s Red Thread Wines
As the world starts to open and reconnect, the story behind Red Thread Wines celebrates many of the things that connect one another, from the terroir to the grape and bottle to food, family, and friends. Red Thread Wines is...
Napa Valley’s Kukeri Wines
A Labor of Love Fortunate are those that undertake a labor of love. Petar Kirilov, founder and winemaker of Kukeri Wines, is one of the hard-working ones to which this biblical passage applies. Focusing on small lots of...
Napa Valley’s Hess Collection Winery
A Distinctly Different Destination Take a scenic drive up in the Mayacamas Mountains, shaped over five million years ago, where The Hess Collection Winery is one-of-a-kind. Off the beaten path on the forested slopes of...
Napa’s Very Own Scott Palazzo
Makes Food Wines Almost two decades ago, while sitting in what was then the Raven movie theatre in Healdsburg, Scott Palazzo watched as Miles, the wine snob and main character of the movie Sideways, angrily trashed Merlot...
Napa Valley’s Scalon Cellars
A Sense of Place -- Scalon Cellars A collaboration composed of passion, talent, and camaraderie unveils the story behind the success of Scalon Cellars. Together, Jesus Espinoza and Cruz Calderon developed a kinship driven...
