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Category Archives: Napa
Hestan Vineyards: Picture Perfect Picks From The Sultan of Saucepans
When a well-heeled businessman decides to open a winery—and plenty do—we can but hope that they possess at least one of the Big Three: A sense of taste, a love of the land or winemaking savvy. If somebody around the … Continue reading
Posted in Cab/Merlot, CALIFORNIA, Chardonnay, Napa
Tagged harp, Helen Cheng, Hestan Vineyards. Rivers Brown, San Francisco Bay, Stanley Cheng, Stephanie Cheng
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Warren Winiarski’s Stag’s Leap of Faith
Within vino’s voluminous vale, the story of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is the story of Napa. At least, it’s a microcosm of Napa’s rise from a fiefdom of meh to a kingdom of quality—and that’s a crown that Warren Winiarski … Continue reading
Napa Cellars Wines: Generically Delicious!
I know, bubeleh; I know. After earning your MBA from the Carnegie Mellon School of Business and your Ph.D from MIT, after a brief teaching stint at Stanford Graduate School (for which you wrote three textbooks on macroeconomics) and your subsequent … Continue reading
Posted in Cab/Merlot, CALIFORNIA, Chardonnay, Merlot, Napa, Sauvignon Blanc, Zinfandel
Tagged Bob Trinchero, Joe Shirley, Napa Cellars Wine, Napa wines, Trinchero Family
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Silverado Vineyards: A Gold Prize for the Mother Lode
Brownie points if you knew that silver mining once rivaled winemaking in Napa County, and that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a novel called The Silverado Squatters about the same trail that lent its name to Silverado Vineyards. Jackson Brownie points … Continue reading
Rutherford Dust Never Sleeps
‘Dust you are, and to dust shall you return.’ – Genesis 3:19 Open letter to God: In the meantime, can we borrow some to make Rutherford cabernet? And although Robert Mondavi and Louis Martini might disagree (in spirit, of course, since … Continue reading
Posted in Cab/Merlot, CALIFORNIA, Napa
Tagged André Tchelistcheff, Rutherford, Rutherford dust
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Marilyn Merlot: Funny, Punny And Still Well Doney
Had she lived to see 2011, do you ever wonder what Marilyn Monroe would have looked like? Probably like how she does look. In any case, 49 years after her death, Marilyn Wines will release a wine to honor an … Continue reading
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