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...]
Chimney Rock Winery
Chimney Rock Winery was founded in 1981 by Sheldon 'Hack' and his wife Stella Wilson (both now deceased). Hack enjoyed a lengthy career as a businessman in a variety of ventures including owning and operating a number of Pepsi-Cola plants in Africa, was president of New York-based Rheingold Corp and later operated restaurants and luxury hotels. Already … [Read more...]
Clark Claudon
Clark Claudon Founders Laurie Claudon & Tom Clark focus on growing premium grapes from their hillside vineyard in Pope Valley while their son Josh runs a vineyard management company his parents founded in 1978 (Clark Vineyard Management). Driving through Pope Valley one might easily miss their vineyard - a sign next to the road is the only indication of … [Read more...]
Clif Family Winery
Clif Family Winery operates a beautiful open-to-the-public tasting room in St. Helena. Clif Family Winery produced their first vintage in 2004. Founders of Clif Family Wines, Gary Erickson and his wife Kit Crawford have always enjoyed good wine and were inspired to start a winery during extended bike tour stops at villa estate wineries in northern Italy. … [Read more...]
Clos du Val
Clos du Val (founded in 1972, means "small vineyard estate of a small valley" in French) is still under original ownership. The winery was founded by an American businessman and prolific patron of the arts, John Goelet (died in early 2023 at age 91) & his wife Henrietta. Goelet lived a very full life; he was the son of a French mother and an American father. … [Read more...]
COHO Wines
COHO Wines was founded by Gary Lipp (who we originally met at a trade tasting and followed up with for a private tasting 15 years later) and Brooks Painter both of whom are Napa wine industry veterans. The first vintage of COHO was in 2002 two bottlings of Pinot Noir, one from Stanly Ranch on the Napa side of Carneros and from the Del Rio Vineyard in the … [Read more...]
Diamond Mountain Vineyard
Diamond Mountain Vineyard (formerly CONSTANT Diamond Mountain Vineyard). One leaves the valley floor just south of Calistoga, carefully navigating the narrow Diamond Mountain Road as it winds through redwood trees and soon begins its climb up the rugged eastern facing slopes of Diamond Mountain. Typically allow about 10-12 minutes to drive from the bottom of … [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...]
Corison Winery
Corison Winery was founded in 1987 by wine maker Cathy Corison; her husband William Martin is also co-owner of the winery). Cathy first caught the wine bug when she was studying Biology at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. She took an elective course on viticulture from professor and wine writer, John Hager, and was hooked. As a result, she ended up going to … [Read more...]
Cosentino Winery
Cosentino Winery was founded by self-taught winemaker Mitch Cosentino in 1980. Mitch is the first person we have met born in Gustine, California (a small town south of Modesto). He discovered an interest in wine during college, prior to a career with wine he earned a degree in Broadcast Communications. Finding the job market in this field somewhat … [Read more...]
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