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While discussing their Regenerative Farming practices at their American Canyon Vineyard at  Grgich Hills Estate , Luke and Ivo Jeramaz show...

Are you familiar with the main principles of  Regenerative Farming ?  Grgich Hills Estate has been a leader in this innovation, first by fa...

Scattered Peaks is a relatively new Napa Valley brand created by Derek Benham who is leveraging long-time Napa winemaker Joel Aiken to &quo...

The Potter Valley AVA is located in the northern section of California's Mendocino County and centered naturally on the town of Potter...

In July 1993 the Oakville and Rutherford AVA's were carved out of the central Napa Valley AVA in order to accentuate their specific m...

The Napa Valley winery, the  Hess Collection , is now in its 32nd vintage with most of the wine produced from hillside vineyards such as M...

I suspect, like me, most of you associate Napa's Chateau Montelena Winery with their Judgment of Paris Chardonnay or their Cabernet ...

I recently received four wines from Miner Family Winery , the well known winery located along the Silverado Trail in Napa's Oakville....

This time of year wineries across the country market selected seasonal wines ready to be uncorked for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Last week ...

"I don’t follow trend, I make wine of conviction. I make wine I want to enjoy myself." ~ Yannick Rousseau The final Protoco...

This week Karen MacNeil , of the Wine Bible fame and Keynote Speaker at the upcoming 2015 Wine Bloggers Conference , hosted a twitter tast...

Just in time for the Christmas holiday, Ca'Momi Winery sent me four wines from their Napa Valley establishment. "House of Momi&q...

 I have been fortunate enough to be included in several #winechat tasting sessions, where wineries or importers send samples to several bl...

It was only a matter of time that we turned to a California wine in our The United Grapes of America series and I want to feature one of ...

We've always enjoyed visiting wineries when we traveled - whether the wineries were destinations in themselves, or when we wanted t...

Our final wine from the comp December Wine Chateau shipment was the Cakebread Cellars 2008 Benchland Select Cabernet Sauvignon ($85). N...

After the Casa Lapostolle Cuvee Alexandre Chardonnay , we finally opened our next wine from the Wine Chateau , the 2006 Bennett Family ...

Yesterday was #SauvBlanc Day and one of Napa's best producers, St. Supery Vineyards & Winery held a reception at the winery in or...

Being regular sparkling wine drinkers, we had neglected this style since our excursion to J Vineyards. We decided to head directly to Mumm N...

We started our day by crossing over the mountains for our first wine venture into Napa. We had visited Calistoga the previous evening to see...