Two brothers started a winery the year Prohibition ended, teaching themselves the craft from pamphlets in the public library. They built it into the largest family winery on the planet. KWReviewed & edited by Ken Wytsma · Fact-checked June 2026Researched and fact-checked against independent sources, with AI assistance.✓ Verified Not
A stuck fermentation in a St. Helena cellar in 1975 produced a sweet pink wine no one had planned to make — and it went on to become one of the best-selling wines in America. KWReviewed & edited by Ken Wytsma · Fact-checked June 2026Researched and fact-checked against independent sources,
Napa is said to be one of the most visited places in California — a farming valley that reinvented itself as the American temple of wine. That transformation was no accident. KWReviewed & edited by Ken Wytsma · Fact-checked June 2026Researched and fact-checked against independent sources, with AI assistance.✓ Verified
In a single afternoon in Paris in 1976, an unknown valley in California humbled the greatest wines of France. But Napa’s road to that moment ran through gold miners, a sea captain, a plague, and thirteen years of Prohibition. KWReviewed & edited by Ken Wytsma · Fact-checked June 2026Researched and
