Julia’s Kitchen has a new locals’ night — Wednesdays, with dinner served from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. (Formerly the popular event was on Thursday and the restaurant was closed Wednesday.)

For the first three years of my life I lived in an aging brownstone apartment building in the Bronx. Eighty times a year, our neighbor, Yankee Stadium, would blast music through the speaker system.

Thirty Jewish vintners and winemakers from Napa Valley will gather for the second L’Chaim Weekend, a celebration of a return to their agricultural roots, June 29-July 1.

Boris Champy steps down as winemaker at Dominus Estate Dec. 15.

About 100 fun loving wine enthusiasts each brought a 375ml bottle of their favorite wine to the annual Half-Bottle Party June 6, an unofficial — very unofficial — kickoff for the big auction week.

Living in Napa Valley, it is easy to think that the world of American wine revolves around us, so it’s sobering to think that the colonists under Capt. John Smith at Jamestown in Virginia planted grapes and made wine soon after they arrived on May 13, 1607.