Saddleback Cellars is located off of the small residential & vineyard surrounded Money Road - about 1/2 way down the Oakville Cross Road. Astute followers of Orange County California trivia will note a similarity between this wineries' name and two prominent mountain peaks in the Santa Ana range called Saddleback. In addition, there is a dip in the Vaca … [Read more...]
Tamber Bey Vineyards
Tamber Bey Vineyards produced their first commercial vintage in 2001 (merely 150 cases) and now crafts over 5,000 cases a year and growing. In late summer 2013, Tamber Bey moved their winemaking and hospitality to a 22-acre site (Sundance Ranch) located a few minutes drive north of the center of Calistoga. In this far northern part of Napa Valley, there … [Read more...]
V Sattui Winery
The History The original V Sattui Winery was founded in 1885 by Vittorio Sattui in San Francisco. He emigrated to California 3 years prior from Carsi, a small remote mountain town north of Genova in northern Italy. The closest larger community to Carsi is Busalla, about a 30 minute drive and is where we stayed due to the number of restaurants and hotels. … [Read more...]
W.H. Smith Wines
WH Smith Wines is a small winery & estate located high in the hills of the Howell Mountain sub appellation south east of the community of Angwin. Founder, Bill Smith moved to Bakersfield California from Illinois when he was 2 years of age. Later in life he became involved in oil and gas exploration - taking a job at Buttes Gas and Oil (based in Oakland), he … [Read more...]
X Winery
X Winery originally opened a tasting room in the city of Napa in mid July, 2007 and we were their first "official" client to arrive for a tasting. However, this tasting room and the subsequent District 4 tasting room have been closed for years. winery originated from an MBA Business plan at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (which also happens to be our Alma … [Read more...]
Yates Family Vineyard
Yates Family Vineyard is located on the slopes of Mt. Veeder; this is one of the southernmost vineyards in the Mt. Veeder Appellation. Mt. Veeder is named for German Presbyterian pastor, Peter Veeder who is buried in Tulocay Cemetery in the city of Napa. When we think of historical German contributions to Napa Valley's wine industry, we always think of Mt. … [Read more...]
Z-52 Winery
Z-52 Winery specializes in vineyard designated Zinfandel; you cannot get more focused than that! They are based in Napa and similar to some of the other wineries we have visited, source fruit from high end vineyards both in Napa as well as other areas in California. Their philosophy is on terroir driven wines and in that case you go where you can find the … [Read more...]
Laura Michael Wines
Laura Michael Wines at Zathila Vineyards are owned by winemaker Laura Swanton. She grew up in Phoenix Arizona and moved to California in 1992 when an opportunity arose to work in high tech (worked for Cisco in San Francisco). She has enjoyed wines for many years and became a self-taught vintner after purchasing this Calistoga property in 1999 from the prior … [Read more...]
ZD Wines
ZD Wines was founded in 1969 as Zepponi and deLeuze Winery by two engineers, Norman deLeuze and Gino Zepponi and their wives, Rosa Lee deLeuze and Barbara Zepponi. All four founders have since passed. The wines have been bottled as ZD Wines since their inaugural vintage. The winery is still family owned and operated with co-founder Norm deLeuze and his wife … [Read more...]
Cafaro Cellars
Cafaro Cellars was founded in 1986 and is owned and run by Joe Cafaro. He has a long history in Napa Valley (since 1969) of making wine at select well-known wineries including Chappellet, Keenan & Dalla Valle, among others. Initially he made wine from purchased fruit but in the mid 90's he acquired a 15-acre hillside vineyard right next to the southern … [Read more...]
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