Napa Valley wine expert Allen Balik talks about Napa Valley's newest American Viticultural Area — Crystal Springs.

Napa Valley is already home to 17 American Viticultural Areas (AVAs), and now a new one has been added to the mix, the San ...

Napa Valley contains ... is not yet an official AVA). Important new-comers include St. Helena, which gained AVA status in 1995, and Yountville in 1999. These appellations are widely planted to ...

Price: From $595 per person Duration ... where you'll taste robust reds in Napa Valley's first AVA; and a Collector's Wine Tasting Tour to small, more exclusive wineries. Beau Wine Tours come ...

The Napa Valley Wine Train is by ... if you're wanting multiple glasses of wine on the train. Pricing varies by experience, but tickets start around $200 per person for a lunch trip during the ...

Dr. Liz Thach writes about wine business and wine lifestyle. Napa Valley’s famous Shafer Hillside ... and Autumn months and is $500 per person. Shafer Vineyards offers two other 90-minute ...

Although grapes were first planted in the 1870s in what is now referred to as the Stags Leap District AVA, the area did not gain its well-deserved recognition until the 1976 Judgement of Paris when ...

Two examples of AVAs are Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley ... Just for one example, in the United States, a wine must be 85 percent from grapes grown within the viticultural area to carry the appellation ...