The Napa Valley Register publishes monthly statistics on arrests and convictions for driving under the influence — and so-called “wet reckless” convictions — in Napa County. Statistics are published in print the first Monday of each month and online when they become available.

To Jeffrey Caldewey, 5 percent can make all the difference in the world, especially when it comes to printing a wine label.

A dry cleaner and a firm that makes capsules and screw caps for wine bottles have one thing in common. To both, wrinkles are a bad thing.

Last summer, two “strippers” from Portugal walked into the parking lot at Napa Valley College, wielding axes seemingly forged in medieval times. They chopped deftly at the trunks of cork oak trees, expertly peeling bark from the trees and removing it in large sections.

Napa Valley residents are used to seeing wooden wine barrels: in wine caves, stacked outside warehouses and even cut in half and filled with flowers on neighborhood lawns. Barrels are everywhere in wine country.

Lots of traffic headaches this week