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June is National Dairy Month. It started as National Milk Month and was intended to promote drinking cold glasses of milk in the warm summer months. These days, Americans eat more dairy than they drink. Cheese consumption is at an all time high according to the International Dairy Foods Association, with Americans eating more than 40 pounds of the stuff annually.  Theres even a National Cheese Day, which is Friday.  The origins of cheese go back some 4,000 years. The food is thought to have ...

5 Napa Wineries To Visit On A Weekend - Napa Valley, CA - There are hundreds of wineries up and down the Golden State, and we've selected a few of our favorites. Take a look at this week's picks.

Carneros Wine Region Reopens for Visitors with a Whole New Look New tasting rooms on the Carneros wine trail create an attractive getaway for locals and tourists alike April 27, 2021 Carneros, Napa and Sonoma, CA, March 24, 2021 – The member wineries of Carneros Wine Alliance, a non-profit association of wineries and grape growers in the Carneros American Viticultural Area (AVA), will reopen their doors to visitors in spring 2021, offering a retreat for locals looking to ...

12 Wineries & Wines That Innately Celebrate the Essence of Mother’s Day X Rickey Trombetta & daughter Erica Stancliff of Trombetta Family Wines. Photo by Anna Wick If Mother’s Day plans call for a celebratory toast, why not make that toast with a wine that innately celebrates the occasion? The dozen wines listed here celebrate matriarchic figures or are created by moms, making each a more-than-fitting addition to your own Mother’s ...

Mansion Global A Turnkey Vineyard in the Heart of California’s Napa Valley The 9.5-acre compound has two guesthouses, five acres of grapes, a pool and a barn large enough for a car collection By BILL CARY  |  Save 1 of 11 1 of 11 Price: $17.725 million This modern farmhouse compound in the heart of California’s Napa Valley offers a main house, two guesthouses, five acres of vineyards and a large barn with an apartment and two offices. “It has all of the com...

Tweet Share I’ve been a fan of Cakebread Cellars wines for a long time. My fandom first started during the final weeks that The Trace was still open in Hillsboro Village when they were closing out their wine list. I discovered Cakebread chardonnay for $30 a bottle, pretty darned close to retail prices, and I thought it was one of the best chards I’d ever tasted. Even though it’s 100 percent aged in oak, I found the sweet wood to be much less of an oak bomb than other Calif...

The most overlooked wine stories of 2020 The most overlooked wine stories of 2020 Beyond the big headlines of coronavirus, wildfires and racial justice, these were the other wine developments that mattered this year, in this weeks Drinking with Esther newsletter FacebookTwitterEmail A variety of wines sit on shelves at Ordinaire Wine Shop and Wine Bar, located at 3354 Grand Ave., on Friday, July 10, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. Jirka Jireh, a manager and sommelier at Ordinaire Wine Shop and Wine Ba...