You might know Napa for its polished Cabernets, but there’s much more to this remarkable valley. Sophie Thorpe talks to the DeSantes – a couple determined to tell the stories of Napa’s oldest vineyards

This coming Monday, the much anticipated Promontory 2012 will be released. We sent Sophie McLean to meet owner Will Harlan to gain further insight to this all new Napa “territory” wine “You have to drive up a single dirt track,” says Will Harlan as he describes where his vines are. “It’s the first natural break […]

In an attempt to live up to Charles Walter Berry’s famous 1930s definition of a wine merchant: ‘The closest link between the people who make the wine and the people who drink the wine’, I recently headed to Frog’s Leap Winery in Rutherford, Napa Valley to help out for a week during the harvest. I’d […]