Inglenook
“When Francis Ford Coppola came to me in 2011, he said he wanted me to make a drinkable wine, a wine that is not too heavy,” said Philippe Bascaules, who is now the director of winemaking at Inglenook, while maintaining his position as managing director at one of Bordeaux’s hallowed first growths: Château Margaux. “This…
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For those that know Ann Colgin—a highly discerning art expert and philanthropist with a no-nonsense Texan drawl—her namesake estate was destined to go big from the moment she put her mind to founding it in the early 1990s. A former director of Sotheby’s West Coast Wine Department in Los Angeles, Ann’s inaugural releases from Colgin…
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Eisele Vineyard is a key piece of Napa Valley history. Located off Pickett Road in Calistoga, within the gentle slopes extending from the Vaca Mountains foothills, the vineyard was first planted to vines in the 1880s. It weathered the devastating phylloxera outbreak and prohibition, finding a new lease of life when it was purchased in…
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It begins to rain as I drive up Mount Veeder along Lokoya Road. From where I’ve come, down on the valley floor, it’s a bone-dry March day. Rain was not in the forecast, but mountains have minds of their own. Before long, the narrow, potholed road turns to a slurry of slick rocks and thick…
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