The Essential Napa Valley Cookbook • 20th April 2021 The Essential Napa Valley Cookbook Created to provide Pandemic relief to Napa restaurant workers, The Essential Napa Valley Cookbook is a first-of-its-kind collection of 35+ recipes from top Napa Valley restaurants and chefs.
Decanter • 30th July 2021 Napa Valley travel guide: Where to visit, eat and stay The engine of U.S. wine production and home to world class Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa is a 'full package' destination. Jess Lander shares her insider knowledge on the best places to visit, so you can plan your ultimate wine tour.
SF Chronicle • 20th November 2020 When fire threatened, how a Napa wine writer chose which bottles to save “Do we have room for any of the wine?” It was early evening on Aug. 18 when my husband and I received a mandatory evacuation order due to the LNU Lightning Complex Fire. The cars were packed with our most important belongings, the cat was in her carrier, and the fire was still burning many miles away. So, knowing we weren’t in immediate danger, my husband and I headed for the wine cellar, set in the back of our landlord’s garage.
Wine Enthusiast • 13th July 2021 Is the Wine Industry Ready for Cryptocurrency? (Maybe) A handful of wineries and retailers have dipped their toes into cryptocurrency. They acknowledge its volatility and lack of widespread adoption, but they’ve believe that crypto might just be the future of finance.
Eater SF • 22nd September 2021 Napa Valley’s Best Mexican Food Is Hiding in This Retro Bowling Alley The majority of Napa Valley tourists drive past the town’s nondescript bowling alley without notice. Painted beige, it’s sandwiched between two car dealerships — Honda and Nissan — about a half-mile south of Napa’s idyllic downtown and before you pass by a single vineyard. It has stood in that spot since 1947, a time when prunes were the commodity, not grapes.
Well+Good • 25th August 2020 I Went on a Road Trip During the Pandemic: Here’s What Did and Didn’t Feel Safe From gas-station bathrooms to hiking in a national park and everything between, here’s what I can share, firsthand, about road trip safety during the pandemic.
VinePair • 12th October 2020 Saving Grapes: How Winemakers Are Repurposing Smoke-Tainted Grapes From the Wildfires A freak lightning storm in August ignited hundreds of fires across California. Then in September, a second outbreak of wildfires up the West Coast blanketed wine country regions throughout California, Oregon, and Washington with smoke that hovered around for days on end. This smoke can permeate the grapes, releasing volatile phenols that ultimately render the wine undrinkable.
SF Chronicle • 16th April 2020 How the coronavirus taught a Bay Area travel writer a lesson in humility Those were the words that jumped out at me in an email from the U.S. Embassy on April 2. Every day for three weeks, I anxiously awaited news of a potential repatriation flight home from South Africa, where my husband and I had been stranded amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wine Enthusiast • 1st October 2020 A New Mission for California Makers Mission, the first wine grape planted in California, is unknown to many wine lovers—possibly because the variety had been nearly wiped from the Golden State all-together.
Scott's Cheap Flights • 23rd November 2020 Scott's Cheap Flights Napa Valley Guide Where farming traditions live on, hot springs bubble up from the ground, and the wine is bottled poetry... The most famous wine region in North America, Napa Valley produces wines that rival those from the Old World’s most revered regions—but that’s not all it has going for it. This 30-mile stretch of Northern California has also proven to be one of the most beautiful to visit, with year-round sunshine and pleasing temps.
AFAR Media • 20th March 2018 The Next Great Bubbly Comes From Brazil The Southern Hemisphere is world-renowned for its wines from Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. But Brazil—famous for Ipanema and Copacabana, not malbec and sauvignon blanc—remains a quiet underdog, despite the fact that it’s the fifth-largest wine producer in the Southern Hemisphere (ahead of New Zealand).
Decanter • 1st November 2019 Best Sonoma & Napa Wine Bars With roughly 1,000 wineries, a bounty of Michelin- starred restaurants and new luxury hotels popping up around every corner, Napa and Sonoma businesses are constantly being pushed to up the ante and diversify in order to stand out from the stiff competition. The local wine bars are no exception.
Roadtrippers • 8th May 2020 Famous Smoky Mountain moonshiner 'Digger' Manes wants to revitalize his tiny Tennessee hometown Better known as “Digger” from the Discovery Channel docu-series Moonshiners, Manes is wearing overalls with the top button on each side undone, and doesn’t look like someone of reality TV fame. But then again, Manes doesn’t exactly line up with my expectation of a real-life, backwoods moonshiner either.
Eater SF • 23rd January 2020 Why Bay Area Chefs Are Infatuated With the Ancient Japanese Tradition of Hoshigaki Over the last couple of months, you may have noticed orange bulbs hanging from the rafters, kitchens, or bars of certain Bay Area restaurants. They’re not avant-garde Christmas decorations that have yet to be taken down. They’re hoshigaki — persimmons dried using the traditional Japanese method of hanging them from a string.
October • 14th April 2019 New Zealand’s Craft Beer Scene Is Worth Crossing the Equator Tourists visit New Zealand for its incredible landscapes made famous by the Lord of the Rings and to seek out its grassy sauvignon blancs, not beer—but that’s about to change. A recent report by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research states that New Zealand has more breweries (over 200) per capita than Britain, the US, and Australia.
VinePair • 31st August 2020 As Harvest Begins, Organizations Are Mobilizing to Protect Vineyard Workers From Covid-19 These organizations are mobilizing to protect workers by offering education, resources, and health screenings that can, in turn, help pilot the industry through a harvest season like no other.
SF Chronicle • 16th December 2016 Weekender: Eugene is Portland’s cooler little brother? Eugene is to Portland as Oakland is to San Francisco. It’s less populated, less polished, but rapidly shedding its former bad-boy rap and gaining notoriety as the cooler little brother.
Decanter • 15th January 2020 Biondi Santi to release special-edition 2012 Riserva Brunello Biondi Santi said its Riserva Brunello di Montalcino 2012 would be released on 1 March 2020. It will carry a special label to commemorate Franco Biondi Santi, who died in 2013, and the recommended price will be £460 per bottle.
Wine Enthusiast • 1st May 2017 Discover the Unknown of the Sierra Foothills "From Gold Rush towns preserved in time to 140-year-old grapevines, the Sierra Foothills area keeps one foot in the 19th century. In this region, known as Gold Country and the Mother Lode, you will uncover rich history, best explored via raft or wine glass."
Decanter • 23rd January 2020 Must see Napa and Sonoma wineries: Five new visitor centres With roughly 1,000 wineries between Napa and Sonoma, the pressure to stand out and outdo one another is on. This is good news for visitors, for wineries are in turn building stunning, state-of-the-art hospitality centers that offer a host of unique and luxurious tasting experiences. Here are five new spots—from old wine country favourites—to get the all-star treatment on your next trip to Napa and Sonoma.