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. Their first trip to Napa was in 1995 where they met a number of winemakers and others … [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...]
Villa Ragazzi
Villa Ragazzi, literally translated in Italian as the House of Boys is an informal term that refers to youth/kids and familiarity among a group of individuals. This winery was founded by husband and wife, Gregory (died in 2021) and Michaela Rodeno with their first commercial vintage in 1989. Both Michaela and Gregory met at UC Davis; she was in graduate … [Read more...]
Jack Brooks Vineyard
Jack Brooks Vineyard. There are boutique producers in the Napa Valley, but there is also another layer of even smaller producers, micro-producers we call them. Jack Brooks falls into the latter category. While not the smallest producer we have tasted with, they certainly are one of the smallest at only approximately 75 to 125 cases produced annually of a … [Read more...]
Patel Napa Valley
Patel Cellars. The focus of Patel Cellars is on Bordeaux varieties hand-crafted with a Napa expression. Founder, Raj Patel moved to California from India when he was 6 years of age and is currently one of a very small percentage of Indian Americans involved in the Napa Valley wine industry. He and his wife Shilta oversee the brand. During college (UC Davis) … [Read more...]
Gallica Wine
Gallica is an artisanal Napa producer focusing on limited production hand crafted wines, created by long time Napa Valley winemaker, Rosemary Cakebread. Rosemary did not grow up in a winemaking family; she told us that she was introduced to wine later in life. Because of her father's work as a commercial pilot, Rosemary's family moved locations fairly often. … [Read more...]
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