Seeing Cakebread Cellars featured on the wine dinner lineup at Sal Ercolano’s The Butcher Shop filled me with anticipation. Not only is Cakebread a fantastic...
Few restaurant proprietors possess the audacity, dedicated staff, and unwavering determination required to successfully organize two wine dinners per month. Among them is Randy Smerik,...
Merlot’s free at last from the clutches of an outrageous, abusive movie entitled “Sideways” that some 14 years ago, disparaged merlot as nothing more than...
Questions still linger about Napa Valley and the impact of the horrific fires that swept through several districts and caused billions of dollars of damage,...
It’s been a long, prosperous journey for this now world famous wine growing region, since Charles Krug established Napa Valley’s first commercial winery in 1861....