Charter Oak Winery is a partnership between Rob Fanucci (local real estate and tax lawyer by day and vintner for many years), his wife Layla and their son David. Their winery is one of the more unique finds in the Napa Valley and is a complete throwback to the "old" days of winemaking. It is rare and actually quite refreshing to find a commercial winery in … [Read more...]
Sabina Vineyards
Sabina Vineyards is one of the nicest "garagist" wineries we have seen out of visiting and tasting with 1000+ Napa producers to date. This winery is the vision of David & his wife Susan Sabin (who both spent many years in Chicago) and was built based on the types of small Burgundian wineries they often visited during their travels to this region. In what is … [Read more...]
Robbins Vineyards
Robbins Vineyards was founded by long time farmer Phil Robbins in 2002. He owns 18 planted acres just off of Zinfandel Lane south of the town of St. Helena. At one time his acreage was part of a much larger property owned by the Christian Brothers. The Christian Brothers had their well-known winery on Mt. Veeder (now the Hess Collection) and also owned this … [Read more...]
Valley Legend Wine
Valley Legend is owned by Greg Lawson. His family has been in the Napa Valley for nearly 40 years. Greg's grandfather was the first president of Beringer Winery after this winery was purchased from the Beringer Family by Nestle in 1971. Greg's family is still very much in the wine business. His brother Jeff works for a large wine distributor in Santa Barbara … [Read more...]
Robert Pecota Winery
Robert Pecota Winery was founded by long time Napa veteran Bob Pecota (died in 2020) in 1978. He was a coffee buyer in the early 1970's for Hills Brothers and MJB Coffee in San Francisco (not the first time on this project that we've met a vintner who has a background in the coffee business). Bob came to the valley in 1970 in what was to become his initial … [Read more...]
Dana Estates
Stewart Cellars
Stewart Cellars is a small family owned and operated premium producer; they were founded in 2000 by Michael and Anne Stewart of Houston, Texas. Michael was the founder of Texas MicroSystems, Inc., a company that produced personal computers and servers for the telecommunication industry (he sold the company in 2002). He was also a founding partner of Santa … [Read more...]
Barbour Vineyards
Barbour Vineyards is owned by long time Napa resident and vineyard manager Jim Barbour and his daughter Fiona. We originally met with Barbour Vineyards General Manager, Kathy Simpson who is also Jim's wife. Jim first moved to the Napa Valley with his family from San Francisco when he was a young boy in 1962. He graduated from St. Helena High School where … [Read more...]
Morlet Family Vineyards
Morlet Family Vineyards was started by French winemaker Luc Morlet and his wife Jodie; 2006 was their first vintage. Luc was born in Epernay, France (Champagne) and is the five generation of winegrowers; he has worked over 40 harvests. He has been surrounded by the wine industry his entire life as his family have been growing grapes since the early 1800s. … [Read more...]
Covenant Wines
Covenant Wines is owned by three partners, vintner and author Jeff Morgan and his wife Jodie - and Leslie Rudd (owner of Napa's Rudd Winery, Dean & Deluca, Oakville Grocery etc). It is always nice and a rarity when we meet a winemaker who has a passion for writing as well as an obvious passion for wine. Jeff's interest in wine began many years ago - in New … [Read more...]
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