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Younger generation: Airy, it was: a high saddle at the seaward end of the Mayacamas ridge. The newly planted vineyards splayed upwards.

With registration now open for the Premiere Napa Valley 2024 auction, db can reveal that a number of the region's winemakers have teamed up to craft one-of-a-kind expressions.

It was a recipe for lower prices. Yet this year's average bottle price of $227 was the highest in several years: below the peak of $286 reached in 2015, but a step up on the $215 average raised in mid-February 2020 when the pandemic wasn't yet on anyone's minds. Moreover, while 140 of the 149 lots were sold domestically, the two most expensive lots, and three of the top six, were bought by UK merchants. "We were blown away. It was just such an incredible day," said Teresa Wall, Napa Valley Vintners senior director of marketing communications. Also, that $227 is an average wholesale price. Th...

Wine production in Napa County declined almost 40% in 2020, data shows. As the first wines of the vintage are released in bottle, the valley’s producers must now assess how best to stretch the inventory they do have. Whites and roses from any given vintage are typically released by the following summer, according to Rosemary Cakebread, winemaker at Gallica Wines. Later ripening-varieties, like Cabernet Sauvignon and other red wine grapes, are usually not made available to consumers for another year and a half past that – by late 2022, in the case of the 2020 vintage, she said. The n...

St. Supéry Donates to Napa Valley Community Disaster Relief Fund St. Supéry Estate Vineyards and Winery will contribute more than $100,000 to the Napa Valley Community Disaster Relief Fund through proceeds from the sale of its 2020 Napa Valley Estate Sauvignon Blanc. "St. Supéry is thankful to neighbors and first responders who helped protect the Dollarhide Ranch from further damage during the LNU Lightning Complex fires," the announcement read. Support local news coverage and the people who report it by subscribing to the Napa Valley Register. In August 2020, on the second day of h...