April 21, 2023Dan Petroski, winemaker and owner of Massican, which makes only whites in Napa Valley, has one of the most fertile…
December 10, 2022We were recently gifted Napa: Behind the Bottle, a wonderful book of photographs in which Bill Tucker depicts the owners,…
January 29, 2021Winiarski compares his time at Souverain and Robert Mondavi Winery to climbing ever-taller peaks. “They were my guided lesser peaks,…- October 9, 2020"There are many ways to help wineries, but the easiest is simply to buy their wines or drink what you…
- May 8, 2020"But thinking about Napa gives us and millions of others warm feelings because many of us have had some of…
November 12, 2019"We have to produce good wines, at least us little guys, because we can't just live off this big Napa…
June 21, 2019"I've gone out to do tastings, public pourings, and people have thought it was an actual abbey and that I'm…- August 31, 2018"We’ve seen so many fine wineries become virtual bulk-wine producers after being bought by big companies." Dorothy J. Gaiter and…
- July 6, 2018"There’s something special about Sancerre. It has a confidence and depth that seem wise, even as it retains that lemon-lime,…
- June 23, 2018“That’s where the story comes in. People want the story. They want the romance that’s with it. They want an…
