Selah Wines was founded by Joe & LeeAndra Blanton with their inaugural 2014 vintage. Ultimately the game of baseball is responsible for Joe's interest in wine. 2005 was Joe's first year playing Major League Baseball, conveniently pitching for the Oakland Athletics. As one of the younger players on the team, several of the veteran ball players would invite … [Read more...]

Château Boswell Winery is one of northern Napa Valley's picturesque estates; the winery was founded by Los Angeles born Richard Thornton Boswell (RT for short, died in 2014), a dentist and lover of outdoor adventure who practiced dentistry in Laguna Beach. In the 1970s, he began investing in real estate and in 1974 purchased 10 acres of land in the lower … [Read more...]

MTGA Wines focuses on thoughtfully hand crafted small productions, initially focusing on a single varietal (Merlot) from a single vineyard each vintage. However, over the years MTGA Wines has diversified its portfolio, sourcing grapes from both within Napa Valley as well as from select vineyards in neighboring Sonoma County. Today production is focused on … [Read more...]

Arrow&Branch was founded by Steve and Seanne Contursi. Both have enjoyed Bordeaux wines since the 1980s and have collected wine from a number of premium Bordeaux based, primarily Right Bank producers. Living in Laguna Beach (Southern California), they soon gravitated towards Napa Valley and in 2007 purchased a small property in what is now Coombsville … [Read more...]

Mowe Napa Valley was founded in 2022 by Dustin and Renee Mowe. Both were born and raised in Shasta County, Dustin in the tiny community of Burney and Renee in Redding. After college Dustin moved to Napa Valley in the late 1990s. He met someone who sold corks for a living for a startup French company. When Dustin asked him about his career, he responded by … [Read more...]

Bonita Bonita Wine was founded in 2019 by former professional wrestling twins, Brianna (Brie) and Nicole (Nikki) Bella (maiden name, Garcia). In 2016, they founded the wine label, Bella Ridiccio, meaning 'beautiful roots in Italian' and paid homage to their Italian mother's side of the family. This label was in partnership with Napa Valley vintner Ryan Hill … [Read more...]

Impensata (pronounced em-pen-sah-tuh). Mike Laipple is the Managing Director of Impensata and Louis Ciminelli (pronounced as simonelli) owns the Ciminelli Vineyard on Howell Mountain. The inaugural vintage of Impensata was produced in 2017. Honoring Louis's Italian heritage, he choose the name Impensata which in Italian means something not yet thought of or … [Read more...]

AMPL Wines was founded by Paulina Michalek with the 2019 vintage. The backstory relating to her move to Napa Valley spanned several decades. Born in what was the former Czechoslovakia (Prague, in Czechia also known as the Czech Republic) she was raised as a child under communist rule. Even as a child she remembers there was a part of the city that people … [Read more...]

Revelette Estate. Passing the Rutherford appellation sign while driving north, we nurtured a suspicion we may have previously been to the property that is now Revelette Estate. And our suspicions were soon confirmed; this was the prior home of Witt Estate, owned by John and Barbara Witt. We first visited with the Witts on the property in 2007. It is located … [Read more...]