1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1072+ words) Napa County has finished its statistical snapshot of what exists in world-famous wine country and is turning its attention to what should be. The county is updating its 2008 general plan, which largely governs land uses in areas outside of cities....

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (760+ words) A copy of the Mt. Veeder AVA sign now occupies a place of pride in the Courtney living room. Year after year Cheryl professes to want nothing for her birthday. Let’s just go out to dinner, she will say. These…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (967+ words) One of the simplest and most useful ideas a gardener can learn is that plants are not people. That sounds almost too obvious to say. Yet many of our assumptions about plants come directly from our understanding of our own…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (433+ words) St. Helena winemaker Tom Rinaldi, pictured here with his wife Beverly Kinney at the 2023 Festa Italiana at Lyman Park, died this weekend at age 77. Harvest report correspondent Elizabeth Vianna, third from left, and the rest of the harvest team at…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (458+ words) Napa Valley State Parks Association board members Bill Dyer and Cathie Bennett Warner survey needed repairs at the Bale Grist Mill last September. Dyer died on April 18, and the association is establishing a fund in his memory. The Napa Valley…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (175+ words) Freshly harvested grapes at Chimney Rock Winery. Fairwinds Estate Winery in Calistoga sold for about $12.8 million after heavy damage from the 2020 Glass Fire. The new owner, Calistoga Farms LLC, plans to transform it into a private wine club and estate…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (762+ words) Flowers and produce from the St. Helena Farmers' Market. Peaches from Neufeld Farms. Honey from Gerard'Z Honeybees. Tu Universo Farm's booth at the St. Helena Farmers' Market. The St. Helena Farmers’ Market turns Crane Park into our very own town…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (438+ words) What we find a bit puzzling further along in the article is an emphasis on providing wineries and growers with “room to adapt” and “regulation responsive enough to let them keep doing what this land does best.” Is this saying…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (337+ words) Wouldn't it be interesting if an old guy like me could get a book published detailing his 50 years of life here in Napa? Chapter 1 would describe what things were like back in the late 70s before the Lombard Station Railroad Crossing…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1072+ words) Recent glitches in California’s efforts to keep the grapevine-killing glassy-winged sharpshooter in check received close attention from a state Senate committee. Sen. Christopher Cabaldon, D-West Sacramento, led the state Senate Select Committee on the California Wine Industry session at UC…...