601 Cellars: Grenache with Panache

601 Cellars: Grenache with Panache

Photo by Lowell Downey, Art & Clarity For many reasons, some vintners and growers in Napa Valley are starting to cast wider nets when determining which varietals to produce, breaking the conventional mold of making Napa Valley Cabernet. Whether it be warmer...
Fontanella Family Winery: Premium Without Pretense

Fontanella Family Winery: Premium Without Pretense

by Elizabeth Smith | PHOTOS COURTESy OF Fontanella Family Winery In 2005, ambitious young couple Jeff and Karen Fontanella discovered a beautiful and serene 26-acre property nestled in the illustrious Mt. Veeder appellation. Located up one of Napa’s spectacular roads...
Fantesca Estate & Winery

Fantesca Estate & Winery

Sexy, Smart, and Unpretentious With a namesake based on a sexy, smart, and strong-willed female character in the Italian theatrical performances of Commedia dell’Arte, Fantesca Estate & Winery has captured the estate’s feminine lineage while producing...
VENGE VINEYARDS Kirk Venge

VENGE VINEYARDS Kirk Venge

GROWING UP in the BUSINESS California is, of course, a place where a family-owned wine business currently in its third generation defines it as “pioneering.” Kirk Venge fondly recalls growing up in the industry in Rutherford, knowing as early as the first grade that —...