Fairwinds Estate Winery, not to be confused with FairWinds Winery in Port Townsend, Washington is located a few minute drive south of Calistoga on the east side of Silverado Trail. In 2015, proprietors Brandon Chaney and Anthony Zabit purchased the old Cuvaison Winery site (Calistoga location) and renamed it to Fairwinds Estate Winery. They opened their … [Read more...]
JCB Salon St. Helena
JCB Salon, St. Helena. In April 2022, Jean Charles Boisset purchased the Keller Building in downtown St. Helena. This was formerly home to Keller Brother’s Meats, a store that was founded in St. Helena in the 1930s. In the book, Stubbed Toes and Grapevines by Janice E. Pond, she describes visiting Keller's as a little girl. "We bought most of our meat from … [Read more...]
Castrucci Wines
Castrucci Wines was founded in 2013 by David and Dawn Castrucci. Their vineyard is located in a part of Napa surrounded by vineyards but in an area that lacks physical wineries. The rolling hills here are covered in vines just East of Highway 29 within about a seven minute drive south of downtown Napa. One can pass by here daily without seeing this 'hidden' … [Read more...]
Richard Partridge Wines
Richard Partridge Wines was founded by Richard and Cris Partridge with their inaugural vintage, a Cabernet Sauvignon from 1998. Richard (died 2025) founded a company in Cerritos California in 1983 called R.F. Partridge & Assoc., which focuses on providing industrial power generation and power backup services (large generators). The company works with a … [Read more...]
Kata Wine
Kata Wine was founded in 2011 by proprietor David Beckstoffer (of Beckstoffer Vineyards, a management company long associated with managing a sizable vineyard portfolio in the Napa Valley, Lake and Mendocino Counties). Six vineyards in the Beckstoffer Vineyards portfolio have been identified as Heritage Vineyards; these are special for a variety of … [Read more...]
Lüscher-Ballard Wine
Lüscher-Ballard Wine. There are those who come to the wine industry much later in life often in a capacity somewhat removed from the daily operations of what is needed to run a winery and manage a vineyard. Not so with Christina Lüscher-Ballard; after a life in film, she started learning about the wine industry in her early 60s and rather than taking a … [Read more...]
Euclid Wines
Euclid Wines was founded by father-son Mike and Lucas Farmer with their first release of a Cabernet Sauvignon from the 2009 vintage. However, their story begins much earlier than this. Mike grew up in El Sobrante (San Francisco Bay Area) and has a background in chemical engineering; prior to his work in the wine industry he was working in the plastics … [Read more...]
Charles Woodson Wines
Charles Woodson Wines. Would you prefer to sit in Section 2, Section 21 or Section 24? This might be the question posed to you when you enter Tasting Room 24 in the "Crusher District" south of downtown. Non sports spans may be befuddled by this question but once you dig a little deeper into their history this question makes perfect sense. These sections … [Read more...]
Knighton Family Vineyards
Knighton Family Vineyards was founded in 2007 by Jim and Ann Knighton with their first commercial release. However, the story of how they came to live in Napa Valley begins a few years prior. Jim was living and working in San Francisco at the time; his home was located in the Sunset District, an often cold and foggy part of the city even in the summertime. … [Read more...]
J Gregory Wines
J Gregory Wines was founded in 2005 by vintner Mark Jessup. Mark was born and raised in Napa Valley. He was attracted to vineyards from an early age. When his family lived in St. Helena, he remembers exploring vineyards, watching the vineyard workers work on the vines and being attracted to the smells of being out in a vineyard as well the sweet smells of … [Read more...]
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