Napa Valley vintners believe 2023’s wine will be the “vintage of a lifetime” 03:02 In recent years, the news from the northern Bay Area wine country centered on one disaster or another ...

Rainfall throughout Napa Valley is at about a third of average, experts say. That likely won't impede this year's wine grape crop, but an extended drought could have serious implications.

It’s been said that great wine begins in the vineyard. While grapes can grow in many kinds of environments, only a few ...

Columnist Clive Pinder has advice for SLO County wine industry: “Let’s not sell our soul chasing Napa’s shadow.” ...

Napa grapes are not like other grapes; they bring up to $4,000 a ton at the wineries, compared with, say, $300 a ton for San Joaquin Valley grapes. You see few if any mechanical harvesters in Napa ...

Workers pick cabernet sauvignon grapes by hand in the cool of the night at a Napa Valley vineyard owned by C. Mondavi & Family as a haze from area wildfires hovers in the air.

As sunlight spilled into California's famed Napa Valley on a summer day, rows of wine grapes reflected the benefits of this winter's record rainfall. California has more than 960 square miles ...

Napa Valley having terrific grape harvests, but consumer tastes may be shifting demand 04:02. The Napa Valley wine industry produced nearly $1 billion worth of wine grapes in 2023, but the ...

Environmental and climate conditions have been testing the Napa Valley grapes in other ways in recent years. The 2020 fire season led to about $600 million worth of grape damage, The Associated ...

Discussing Napa Valley’s mountain appellations as if they’re some sort of monolith is a recipe for ... Exploring The Cabernet Sauvignon Of Napa Valley, Part Five: Mountain Wines. ByBrian Freedman.

With 95 percent of the grapes in Napa Valley already turned to juice, this year’s harvest is expected to be completed by the middle of next week, speakers at the ...

THE NAPA VALLEY in California is one of my favorite wine regions; I’ve been there many times over several decades. But I’m not sure I can afford to visit Napa today. With Napa’s newest hotel ...