Durant & Booth opened a tasting room in Oakville (next to the Oakville Grocery) in May of 2016. The tasting room is located inside the original family home of one time owners of this property, James and Jennie McQuaid. The home was built in 1877 and predates the original Oakville Mercantile building next door (now the Oakville Grocery) which was built in … [Read more...]
On Q Wines
On Q Wines was founded by vintner Steve Baker in 2010. He grew up in rural Napa Valley, in Gordon Valley in particular, located slightly east of the city of Napa. While he had friends in the wine business while growing up, he did not become a winemaker; rather he became a marine engineer and spent years at sea for Chevron. His interest in making wine came … [Read more...]
K. Laz Wine Collection
K. Laz Wine Collection was founded by Napa wine insider Kerrin Laz. Few have the insights and access to Napa wineries and Napa wines that she does. She grew up in Long Island in New York and while her family enjoyed wine, they were not in the wine business. She studied journalism and political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill … [Read more...]
Fairwinds Estate Winery
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 Wine Bar & Lounge
JCB Wine Bar & Lounge opened in Yountville, appropriately on Valentines Day 2016. There is no other walk-in tasting room in the Napa Valley that comes close to the diverse and visually impressive selection of interior decor. As you enter, the tasting room is an assault on your senses, and you aren't sure what to feast your eyes on first. Pay attention to the … [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 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 number of utility … [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...]
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