Every so often on my relentless pursuit of visiting, tasting with and promoting all Napa Valley based wineries and producers - I discover brands that combine intriguing history, cool owners and excellent wines. Earlier this year I met up with owner Katie Migliavacca and her winemaker and business partner Vincent Traverso in the Migliavacca Mansion in … [Read more...]
Organic Aromas – Nebulizing Diffuser for Aromatherapy
When one smells and tastes wine partly for a living, one's sense becomes acutely aware of smells. I remember as a child I could smell minute particles of smoke in the air, well before anyone else picked up on the aromas - often from fires a long ways away. I still can. However, translating this genetic talent into picking out aromas in wines - is not as easy … [Read more...]
Top 12 Winery Luxury Spaces in the Napa Valley
Over the past 15 years I have been tasting up and down the cozy confines of the Napa Valley - from valley floor to hillside. With well over 1,000 Napa Valley wineries and producers visited with to date, my journeys have taken me into some of the most luxurious, secret and coveted spaces. Coming up with top lists is always challenging especially with our … [Read more...]
Hayfork Wine Company
Hayfork Wine Company initially focused on Cabernet Sauvignon, crafting one wine from the same block within the historic Lewelling Vineyard in St. Helena each year. As the brand has evolved, they now produce several wines from this property, a couple of other unique for a Napa producer bottlings, and also a wine from a very rare variety growing in Napa … [Read more...]
Robert Foley Vineyards
Robert Foley Vineyards is run by the talented winemaker Bob Foley and his wife Kelly. Bob remembers his first trip to Napa was in 1964 with his father to pick out some grapevines from a well-known rootstock nursery that no longer exists in St. Helena. His father wasn't making wine commercially - he just wanted to have fun growing grapes and did so with a … [Read more...]
Glass Fire, Napa Valley 2020
Of all the bad winery and vineyard news that has been reported from the Glass Fire, from a historical point of view - the loss of La Perla hurts *the most*. I mean this was a significant loss, not only for Spring Mountain Vineyard but for all of the Napa Valley. The winery was storing number of old wooden carriages up there dating from the late 1800s, … [Read more...]
Sova Wines
Sova Wines. Winemaker Sean Behrens was born in Duarte (Los Angeles County) but moved to Humboldt County when he was just a few years old. He grew up 'in the woods' as he puts it and wasn't always exposed to good food and wine. That changed when his step mom, Lisa Drinkward came into his life after meeting Sean's father Les. Les and Lisa opened Folie Douce … [Read more...]
Rewa Vineyards
Rewa Vineyards. Originally called Blue Oak Hill, named from the numerous old oak trees that grow on site, this coveted knoll and surrounding property was acquired by Gajendra Singh Sareen (GS for short) in 2012. The site is Coombsville, just east of downtown Napa. GS was born in Madhya Pradesh, India. In the 1990s he become involved in the tire business … [Read more...]
BRION Wines
BRION Wines. The focus of BRION is on single vineyard expressions of 100% varietal Cabernet Sauvignon, primarily from Napa Valley vineyard sources. Named after Brion (pronounced Brian) Wise, who along with his wife Ronda founded BRION with their first vintage in 2002 a year after they founded B Wise, a vineyard and winery in the Mayacamas mountains of … [Read more...]
MadoroM Vineyards
MadoroM Vineyards was founded by Napa native, Andy Amador, his wife Marissa and their winemaker Mike Blom with their first vintage produced in 2000. When one meets Andy, one soon realizes he has a passion for people and the outdoors. He grew up in Napa Valley hunting and fishing and spending plenty of time in and around vineyards. His father, Gus Amador … [Read more...]
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