Copia may be closed and the nearby bridge impassable, but there are more reasons than ever to visit the stub of First Street between Soscol Avenue and the Napa River. The First and McKinstry Street neighborhood around Oxbow Public Market now offers four free-standing tasting rooms, each operated by a local vintner.

The San Francisco-based Wine Institute, the advocacy group for the California wine industry, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year by reinforcing many of the goals on which the organization was founded with the repeal of Prohibition.

He is a wine maker who has made some pretty beefy red wines. We were having lunch one day when he pulled out a rosé that he had made.

We are on a historical journey to understand what makes the Napa Valley unique in the world of wine. 

A familiar face was seen at the barrel auction during last week’s Auction Napa Valley. Mitch Cosentino, who has had a myriad of health problems over recent months, was pouring his 2007 CE2V Meritage and 2007 Cosentino cabernet sauvignon.