is owned and operated by Dave Cofran and his business partner John Johnson. Incidentally this was the 450th Napa winery that we visited during our extensive wine odyssey. Dave has a long history in the wine industry dating back over 40 years. He is a graduate of UC Davis during the mid 1960′s from a class that produced industry pioneer winemakers for Napa … [Read more...]
The Best of the Napa Valley in Photography
" Napa Valley is home to nearly 1000 unique producers, including physical and virtual wineries. 95% of the valley by numbers are small boutique wineries producing under several thousand cases of wine per year. There is an amazing diversity in such a small geographical region ranging from owners, to vineyards to soils and micro-climates. The wine is known … [Read more...]
Voces Cellars
Voces Cellars is owned and operated by Fernando Candelario. We met up with him at Regusci Winery. His parents immigrated from Michoacán Mexico in 1979, a region of the country that a number of Mexican American vintners in the Napa Valley are originally from. Sometimes you don't know what path life will lead you on - Fernando certainly was not on a career … [Read more...]
Wicker Vineyards
Wicker Vineyards is operated by long time Napa Valley natives, Ron and Lisa Wicker. Ron runs a successful Napa Valley based vineyard management company currently managing approximately 300 vineyard acres in the valley. Over the years, he has certainly left his mark on a number of vineyards up and down the valley and in 2010 was named "Napa Valley … [Read more...]
Brown Estate
Brown Estate. During one of our visits to the estate, we were told their wines, "Reflect a sense of place rather than palate." This is the first time we had heard terroir expressed like this - in such an eloquent way. It was nice to hear this, considering they have built their reputation on Zinfandel, a variety which can easily be harvested over ripe … [Read more...]
Lieff Wines
Lieff Wines was founded with their first commercial vintage dating from 2004. Robert and Gretchen Lieff previously owned 22 acres of steep rugged rocky hillside vineyards on the western face of the Vaca Mountains across from the town of St.Helena. While they are fairly new to the wine-making scene, the age of their wine production does not tell their full … [Read more...]
Andesite Vineyard
Andesite Vineyard is one of the smaller commercial wine producers in the Napa Valley - with 2 planted acres of vines they typically produce only around 150 cases. Jo Ann and Charles Howard have lived in the Mayacamas Mountains above the town of St. Helena since 1984. At the time they moved here there were only 2 or 3 families in the area even making wine … [Read more...]
Artist Wine
Artist Wine is owned and operated by Kristian Story, formerly of Kristian Story Wines (that label closed in 2013) and formerly of Napa One Wine. We originally caught up with Kristian when he was producing his wines at a winery in Carneros. Last we heard Kristian had entered the insurance brokerage field and moved out of the Napa Valley. These wines focus on … [Read more...]
Taub Family Vineyards
Taub Family Vineyards produces wines bottled under both their namesake and the Heritance label. Heritance Wines were built upon decades of combined experience in the wine industry. Original founders and general partners were winemaker Bernard Portet and Don Chase. Bernard's son was also involved for some time as their national sales manager; we met with both … [Read more...]
Veedercrest Vineyards
Veedercrest Vineyards - There are a number of wineries that come and go in the valley and then there are those who were well regarded and then for a variety of reasons no longer produced wine commercially. Take for instance Veedercrest - this winery released their first vintage in 1972 and produced wine until the mid 1980's. Then for twenty years no wine … [Read more...]
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