Entries from January 2008

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Cork Bits: ideas for your Napa Valley weekend

As the week winds down, we get set to say goodbye to the first month of 2008 (can you believe that?!) To usher in the month of February, we’ve got a collection of local wineries that are planning to host parties to celebrate their new releases this weekend…get out there and enjoy!
Saturday, February 2

Peju Province [...]

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

A review of the Sequoia Grove winetasting experience

For a brief moment, the sun was shining and all seemed right with the world. For our next winetasting adventure, we made our way up Highway 29, past the town of Yountville, past Mustards, past the famous Oakville Grocery and finally made a right at 8338 St. Helena Highway (aka Highway 29), which is the [...]

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

A video update on Hall Wines from Kathryn Hall

Going through our inbox, we ran across a quick video from Kathryn Hall of Hall Wines up in St. Helena.
Hall, producer of classic Bordeaux varietals such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc, has some serious construction going on (as do a seemingly growing number of local wineries–Alpha Omega, Silver Oak Cellars, Sequoia Grove [...]

Monday, January 28th, 2008

A review of the Monticello Vineyards winetasting experience

This past Friday morning, while the wind blew so hard it was rattling windows and the rain pelted the already soaked ground in a seemingly never-ending downpour, we ventured out to do a bit of winetasting. This time, our stop was not at all far from home–we pulled off at 4242 Big Ranch Road, which [...]

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Silver Oak Cellars 2003 Napa Valley release day, Elizabeth Spencer’s Big Red Wine celebration

This post is for all you red wine lovers out there. If you happen to be in, or around, the Napa Valley during the first weekend in February, we’ve got a couple events that will be worth taking the time to check out.
First off, Silver Oak Cellars will host its bi-annual Release Day celebration from [...]

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Cork Bits: ideas for your Napa Valley weekend

Well, after several nice weather days in a row, now we here in the Napa Valley are getting dark, cold, wet weather and more of the same is expected this weekend. Earlier in the week the extreme northern part of the valley actually saw snow, so if you’ll be in town this weekend, be sure [...]

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Napa Valley in danger of being annexed!

In an effort to be good bloggers, we setup several RSS feeds based on key search terms related to this here blog. One of the terms, as you might guess, is “napa valley”. Now, we don’t keep up with our feed reading as much as we probably should.
So this afternoon, while going through 558+ [...]

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Napa Valley film ‘Bottle Shock’ not feelin’ the love

Last Summer we told you about the upcoming Napa Valley film ‘Bottle Shock’, which was being put together by filmmaker Randall M. Miller. The film tells the story of the early days of California winemaking and the monumental 1976 blind tasting in Paris. Well, here we are in January 2008 and the film has made [...]

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The Cork Board welcomes Napa’s August Briggs Winery to the blogosphere

We’ve written before about the severe lack of local wineries who’ve sought to tap into the power the blogosphere, so we write this post having seen a ray of hope. It seems that August Briggs Winery, which is located at 333 Silverado Trail in Calistoga, has just launched a blog.
For now, the posts [...]

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Sunrise on the outskirts of Calistoga

It’s Friday, and for most, it’s the beginning of a three day weekend. We were up early today and happened to be driving in the heart of the Napa Valley at sunrise, so we thought we’d share one of our favorite photos.
This one, taken this morning, is a shot looking at the western Napa [...]