Napa News

The Wine Foundry bought The Napa Juice Box custom-crush winery in south Napa, giving the "microcrush" custom vintner formerly known as Crushpad additional customers and a new home all its own.

Work crews shortly around 6 a.m. Wednesday began picking pinot noir grapes along Napa Valley's Silverado Trail, starting the harvest season for the North Coast wine industry.

Mike Grgich of Grgich Hills Estates is a winemaker who makes wine but has also made history.

Cooking teacher Hugh Carpenter and his wife, photographer Teri Sandison, announce the launch of their cookbook "Mexican Flavors: Contemporary Recipes from Camp San Miguel" available for purchase beginning August 12, 2014.

Amy Martenson, an Area 2 candidate for the Napa Valley College Board of Trustees in the upcoming fall election, will hold a campaign kick-off party and fundraiser 7 p.m. Friday at the Slack Collective Art Studios and Gallery, 964 Pearl St., Suite B, Napa.

Although this past winter was one of the driest on record, Napa's vintners and growers are predicting an abundant, high-quality harvest for the third year in a row.

Power has been restored to all but 100 customers in Napa after an SUV struck and toppled a power pole Tuesday morning, a PG&E spokeswoman said.

The 2014 vintage has been running ahead of schedule all year, at least for the North Coast - from early budbreak to a timeline about 2 weeks ahead of schedule.

Forbes.com 's Katie Kelly Bell doesn't consider herself a wine blogger or writer, but a wine storyteller.

The Bayard Rustin LGBT Democratic Club of Napa and Solano Counties will host speakers Brendalynn Goodall, president of the East Bay Stonewall Democrats, as well as recently elected Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the McCree-Goudeau Gallery at 930 Marin Street in Vallejo.

Jose Hernandez, citing the need for technology training for the students, supports a proposed bond measure for Napa Valley College as a way of ensuring the college's viability in the future as he spoke at a special college board meeting Monday evening.

A company believed to be backed by Chinese investors has bought Quixote Winery in the sought-after Stags Leap District of California's Napa Valley.

While many are melting away under the summer sun, we at Honest Cooking have taken it upon ourselves to drink enough white wine to be able to give you a great guide to delicious whites that will keep you refreshed and tipsy throughout the summer months, while also pairing excellently with food.

Time flies when you are making wine. It's hard for me to believe, but this will be my 33rd consecutive harvest in the wine business.

The entire French wine industry was livid, angry, furious, incredulous, devastated, appalled and, did I mention very unhappy? And it had every right to be.

All five generations of the Sullivan/Harris family in their Vallejo homestead, including Claudine Sullivan , and clockwise, Terry Harris, holding Aubrey Marquez, Jeanette Harris and Gina Saunders.

The Westin SFO has something the brag about - a new restaurant, Grill & Vine and an updated hotel.

Farmhouse Inn , a boutique hotel near the western Sonoma County community of Forestville in Russian River Valley, completed an $8 million renovation and expansion project.

Whether water is gushing in North Coast waterways or not, farmers in the region are facing proposed state and federal rules aimed at ensuring that there's enough water above and below ground during dry spells such as the current drought and that runoff when the rains return doesn't harm protected species.

Nick LeMasters runs a tight ship. He's the general manager of the Cherry Creek Shopping Center , where 18 million people a year come to browse, buy, eat, catch a movie and hang out.