St. Barthélemy Cellars is a very unique winery, not only in the Napa Valley but in California. Their entire production is focused on producing high quality port-style wines. Other than Prager Portworks who focus their production entirely on port-style wines, and 2 or 3 other wineries in the Napa Valley who produce mostly port-style wines, the rest of the … [Read more...]
St Clement Winery
St Clement Winery is housed next to a lovely distinguishable old Victorian (the Rosenbaum House) located on the side of a hill overlooking Napa Valley, just north of the town of St. Helena. This winery is on site of the original Spring Mountain Winery and is part of the International wine group, Treasury Wine Estates based in Australia. Treasury Wine Estates … [Read more...]
The Bottle Shop St. Helena
The Bottle Shop St Helena, formerly known for several decades as the St. Helena Wine Center changed names in early 2020. Part high end wine shop, part lounge and part tasting room, The Bottle Shop is located on Main Street in the heart of downtown St. Helena. The building has become locally iconic over the years due to its three exterior rock framed arches. … [Read more...]
Harlan Estate
Harlan Estate. We had been looking forward to visiting Harlan Estate for some time. This was one of our special visits on this project; it was the 600th review of an active winery/producer to appear on this site. And remarkably, we have since more than doubled this number with over 1,200 unique Napa Valley wineries/producers personally visited, tasted with … [Read more...]
Alante Vineyard
Alante Vineyard was founded by Bruno Van den Bosch and his wife Christine; they released their first commercial vintage in 2006. The story goes back much further however, to Belgium in fact. Bruno was in the computer industry in Europe and upon moving to California in 1986 he founded Alante Corporation in the Silicon Valley (specializing in refurbished HP … [Read more...]
Luis Ochoa Family
Luis Ochoa Family - We recently sat down with Luis Ochoa to try his family's wines. Luis has been in the Napa Valley since December 31st, 1966. He remembers arriving in California from Michoacán Mexico on December 29th and two days later he was in Napa working at Beringer for the going rate for newly hired vineyard workers at the whopping salary of … [Read more...]
Bourassa-Napa Smith
This 2nd tasting room closed. Their main tasting room and winery remain the same. Archiving this review now. Bourassa-Napa Smith operates a second tasting room in the same business park as their main winery/tasting room in south Napa (minutes away). Bourassa's tasting room adjoins the main tasting area for Napa Smith Brewery. No appointment is needed but … [Read more...]
Napa Smith
Archiving this review - Napa Smith is in the business of making beer. No longer making wine. Napa Smith - Beer is what winemakers drink when they need to take a break. Where else in Napa County can one visit a brewery and taste a wide variety of *beer* in a tasting room. This is the only open to the public tasting room for beer at a brewery in the entire … [Read more...]
Bello Family Vineyards
Bello Family Vineyards was founded by proprietor Michael Bello in 2004. Michael comes from Orange County in southern California where he founded Newport Beach based Walldesign, Inc., in 1983 and ran the company for nearly 30 years before it declared bankruptcy in 2012. This was a residential home sub-contracting business that focused on dry wall installation … [Read more...]
Beaucanon Estate
Beaucanon Estate has been producing balanced, bright and flavorful wines in Napa Valley since 1986, including a Chenin Blanc bottled that year. Despite a production of nearly 40 years in Napa Valley, they are still very quietly producing premium wines while remaining well under the radar of most Napa Valley wine enthusiasts and even those who work in the … [Read more...]
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