Expect sunny days and warm afternoons – perfect for outdoor wine tasting. It’s the second week in February 2022, but it feels like springtime in the Napa Valley …
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Estate Cabernet Sauvignon is the calling card of one of the best Napa Valley wineries for food and wine pairings. Thomas Rivers Brown, a renowned consultant, heads up …
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Best Amador wineries, restaurants, and hotels. An Instagram follower DM’d me in early 2022, asking for wine-tasting tips for Plymouth and Amador County. I cover the region for …
Matt Iaconis achieves reined-in elegance with Atlas Peak grapes. Looking for something different in a Northern California Pinot Noir? Consider the 2018 Brick & Mortar Cougar Rock Vineyard …
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Vineyard’s woodsy setting announces itself on first sniff. A story elsewhere on this site details current planet-positive initiatives at Medlock Ames Winery including regenerative farming. During a late-2021 …
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Delfino family’s third generation expands El Dorado County apple-growers’ portfolio with Edio Vineyards. “You can tell I was taught to make Pinot Noir,” agreed winemaker Peter Delfino after …
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Trace modern Napa Valley history at this family-owned operation famous for hillside Cabernet Sauvignon. Twenty minutes into a tour of Chappellet Winery‘s rocky, oak-studded Pritchard Hill site, I …
After 3½ decades, Chappellet Winery still enchants Napa Valley winemaker Phillip Corallo-Titus. “This is fun, tasting actual wine,” enthused Philip Corallo-Titus, the winemaker at the Napa Valley’s Chappellet …
Winemaker Laura Díaz Muñoz’s lush, subtly powerful Napa Valley wines are ready to drink now but made to age. In the mid-1880s, Bernard Ehlers, a Sacramento grocer, purchased …
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Devastating fire motivated Sonoma County winery’s cofounder to introduce eco-friendly “regenerative” practices. In Sonoma County’s Alexander Valley subappellation about a 25-minute drive east of Healdsburg Plaza lies 338-acre …
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