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Interview: Gott’s Roadside Tray Gourmet owner Joel Gott on rebranding, plans for the future

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As we wrote earlier today, the days of the Taylor’s Automatic Refresher brand living here in the Napa Valley are done.
We caught up with Gott’s Roadside Tray Gourmet owner Joel Gott over email a couple days back to get some further insights into the re-branding effort.
CB: Given this is a family business and you’re [...]

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Interview: St. Supéry’s Josh Anstey on the art of vineyard pruning

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On any given day over the past several months you could pass by a local vineyard and find large crews out working amongst the seemingly dormant vines. Just what were they doing?
Vineyard pruning, while not perhaps the sexiest of topics, is an important part of the process. We recently caught up with St. Supéry’s vineyard [...]

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2009 Napa Valley harvest: an interview with Swanson Vineyards’ winemaker Chris Phelps

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With harvest in full swing and rain pouring from the skies, we were able to track down Chris Phelps, Swanson Vineyards’ winemaker, for a quick interview on a variety of harvest-related topics.
Phelps shared details on overall volumes, Swanson’s process for handling the fruit once it’s brought in from the vineyard and what today’s torrential rains [...]

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Chef Michael Chiarello on all things Bottega

In the final installment of our recent video interview with Chef Michael Chiarello we asked him for his thoughts on all-things Bottega.
Check out the video below to see if he’d do anything differently in terms of opening the restaurant, what he’s found different about his experience at Bottega vs. his time at Tra Vigne [...]

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A video interview with Amelia Ceja of Ceja Vineyards

We recently caught up with Amelia Ceja, owner and president of Ceja Vineyards, at an event at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone.
Amelia had just returned from a visit to Hong Kong (not coincidentally, the topic of the event we were at), where she told us she found amazing world cuisine, which is the [...]

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Bottega’s wine program–an update from Chef Michael Chiarello

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Anyone who’s had the pleasure of dining at Chef Michael Chiarello’s Bottega restaurant in Yountville can attest to the fact that the wine is very reasonably priced.
This is, of course, very much by design.
A bottle of ‘07 Cliff Lede Sauvignon Blanc from Stag’s Leap? On the menu for $32. How about a bottle [...]

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Chef Michael Chiarello dishes on his future television endeavours

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We recently dined at Chef Michael Chiarello’s newest restaurant, Bottega, and were lucky enough to be able to sit down and chat with him for a few minutes following our meal.
Given the recent buzz around his participation in the upcoming Bravo TV series “Top Chef Masters” , we asked Chiarello to share a few [...]

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