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Napa Valley Stereograph is a new brand launched in 2025 with red wines produced from the 2023 vintage and white wines made from grapes harvested in 2024, but founding partner and winemaker Sally Johnson Blum is a well-respected Napa Valley winemaker who has been at her craft for many years. She first became interested in…
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Napa Valley Fred Schweiger purchased the land that would eventually become Schweiger Vineyards in 1961 for a mere $250 per acre. Although it was completely forested, Fred found old redwood grape stakes planted in a one meter by one meter pattern indicating that someone had been growing grapes on the property before Prohibition. He then…
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Napa Valley Anthem Winery and Vineyards proprietor and CEO Julie Arbuckle fell in love with Napa when she and her then future husband first visited the valley after graduating from University of California at Berkeley. Shortly after having their first child, they found their Mt. Veeder estate, which they both thought it was a little…
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Napa Valley Currently making amazing wines like the 2022 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon that was recently sent to Club 672 members, the team at Grassi Wine Company remains proud of its very humble beginnings. Founder Mark Grassi was a college biology major in the late 1970s and early 1980s but had to drop out because he…
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Napa Valley Canada native Cliff Lede fell in love with Napa Valley and its potential for world-class Cabernet Sauvignon after visiting in the 1990s. After searching for years, he discovered an opportunity to acquire vineyards and a small existing winery in the acclaimed Stags Leap District. He founded Cliff Lede Vineyards there in 2002 with…
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Napa Valley Grant Long Jr. made his first barrel of wine in his parent’s garage at the age of 18 and was very happy when friends and neighbors came back for more. His career in the world of wine began while he was in his 20s and worked at respected California wineries. Years later, in…
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Napa Valley Steve and Suzie Reynolds purchased what was then a run-down chicken farm just south of the Stags Leap District along Silverado Trail in 1995. At that time, Steve admits there wasn’t much to it — just a boarded-up farmhouse, a spring-fed pond, and a few goats and chickens wandering the property. His son…
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Yountville Balthasar and Elizabeth Darms settled on the 120-acre property that would later become the Shifflett Ranch and Vineyard in 1883 and at that time the local newspaper reported that 36 acres of land had already been planted with two-year old-vines. The Darms family sold to Wade and Mary Elizabeth Shifflett in 1942 and since…
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Napa Valley Roberto Arador was born and raised in Michoacán, Mexico, and moved to Napa Valley at the age of seventeen. His journey in the wine business started in 1999 with work in the vineyards. After several seasons, he “became captivated by the entirety of the craft—the progression from vineyard beginnings to the subsequent winemaking…
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Napa Valley Covert Estate is owned by French born winemaker Julian Fayard, library wine collectors and vintners Cal and Pam Nicolson, and California wine collectors and horse enthusiasts Dave and Laura Nestor. They came together with the single purpose of producing fine wines crafted in Napa Valley. Their estate is located in the Coombsville AVA…