Uproot Wines was founded in 2011 by Greg Scheinfeld and his business partner Jay Levy. Greg came to the Napa Valley after leaving a career in finance and as he says, "a job that required me to always be in the office". The career choice couldn't be more polar opposite - working in a rural environment, often outdoors and being directly responsible for a … [Read more...]
BRAND Napa Valley
BRAND Napa Valley was founded by Ed and Deb Fitts. Ed's background is in paper manufacturing - supplying a number of contracts including packaging to fast food restaurants. He founded Dopaco, a company that specialized in providing packaging and paper products for nationally known fast food franchises including Burger King and McDonalds. He sold his business … [Read more...]
Red Mare Wines
Red Mare Wines was started by Napa winemaker, Anne Vawter (who we originally met at Napa Wine Co) and her business partner Jim Striegel with the release of their first vintage in 2007. Their focus is on a sourcing high quality fruit from premium Napa Valley vineyards while offering the wines at reasonable prices. They only work with vineyards that are farmed … [Read more...]
Twin Palms Vineyard
Twin Palms Vineyard released their first vintage in 2007. Owner Robert Larson lives in the San Francisco Bay area and purchased this property in 2004. The Napa Valley is certainly known for its Cabernet Sauvignon and many area producers offer this varietal. However, Twin Palms is not one of them. After purchasing the property, Rob planted the vineyard to two … [Read more...]
Lewis Cellars
Lewis Cellars was established in 1992 by Randy and Debbie Lewis (unfortunately Debbie passed far too young in 2017 from cancer). Randy grew up in Atlanta, Georgia; his previous career was in professional car racing. He competed in a variety of races including Formula Three in Europe, Formula 5000 and five Indianapolis 500's. He is not the only former … [Read more...]
Napa Valley American Viticultural Areas
Napa Valley American Viticultural Area (AVA) encompasses a rather small geographical area, produces only 4% of California's entire wine production and is one of the premium wine growing regions in North America. The earliest vineyards date back to 1836 and the oldest winery is from 1861. The valley itself is only 48 kilometers long and several kilometers … [Read more...]
Naked Wines
With a remarkable growth spurt in such a short time that would make most wineries envious since their inception in 2008 in the United Kingdom, Naked Wines has quickly expanded globally. They operate a winery and adjoining tasting room in Kenwood (in neighboring Sonoma County), are in the Australian market - running online wine sales in Sydney and opened a … [Read more...]
Crosby Roamann
Crosby Roamann. The vision for Crosby Roamann began in New York City in 2006. Husband and wife, Sean and Juliana McBride started making wine in Tribeca in 2006, merely a barrel of grapes they purchased from one of Napa's most well-known vineyard managers, Andy Beckstoffer. Bitten by the bug Sean moved to the valley and started making wine at White Rock … [Read more...]
The Grade Cellars
The Grade Cellars is located in Calistoga and was founded with the purchase of 32 acres by husband and wife, Tom Thorton and Brenda Mixson. Both were living in New York City at the time of this purchase (1997) where Tom was a practicing architect as part of a larger firm and Brenda was involved in commercial real estate. Their first trip to Napa was in 1995 … [Read more...]
Napa Wine Project App for the Ipad now available in the Apple Store
I've been working with a team out of Eastern Canada to build an app for the Apple store. After a year of building this and fine tuning all the details of feature and function we are proud to announce this app is now available for the iPad from the AppStore. The app is great for planning your wine tasting schedule ahead of time or on the fly while you are … [Read more...]
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