April 3, 2026Be open to new adventures and your wine journey will always have wondrous detours. We have been drinking and studying…
January 3, 2026“Napa forgot Merlot. I didn’t.” That is Jeff Cole’s statement from his Instagram bio. His handle, @themerlotmovement, is just as…- October 31, 2025We had our first Chimney Rock wine in the late ’80s when a member of our little wine group in…
June 18, 2025Wine tourism has evolved far beyond the traditional couples' getaway or group excursion. Today's solo travelers are discovering that wine…
September 19, 2024A few days after our dinner at Melba’s, we reached out to Deneen Brown, CEO of Brown Estate, to talk…- August 9, 2024Hope Goldie, whose chemist father made wine at home in Washington, studied enology and food science at UC-Davis and worked…
June 7, 2024...we identified six of Napa's iconic family-owned wineries and vineyards established in the 1970s and 1980s that have significant next-generation…- March 22, 2024We were at the final dinner of the 2024 Wine Writers Symposium in Napa recently when we met Jerry Seps,…
- February 9, 2024MFEO isn’t an acronym we toss around lightly. To be perfectly honest, we’d never even heard of MFEO until we…
April 29, 2023Grape Collective talks with Emmanuel Kemiji about his winemaking journey and his passion for Spanish wine.
