Tuesday, April 21, 2015

A lion of North Bay environmentalism, my friend, leaves a turbulent wake

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... and the big question still unanswered: How does this story end happily?                        (from the Napa Register ) Ceremo...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Can you manufacture authenticity in the Napa Valley?

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A radio interviewer caught up with me in Napa Valley. Listen up (please):  http://napabroadcasting.com/a-walled-garden-of-eden-jim-conaway-...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Fore!

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Meanwhile, on Thomas Jefferson's doorstep, a winery plans to sell an activity having nothing to do with wine  ( from  Worth ,  April-...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

What happened to the dream of the American yeoman vintner?

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From the Virginia Quarterly Review , Spring 2015: For Napa: The Story of an American Eden : http://www....
Thursday, March 19, 2015

The zin of it

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                                                                                            (Andre Tchelistcheff 1901-1994)       I'...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Another fight on the way, wine-wise...

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 More change is in store for the largest vineyard on the East Coast, which may be the most controversial yet.                             ...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Wine writers sometimes forget where it all comes from

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                                        Napa valley draws journalists like fruit flies. It draws tourists for the same  reason : physical ...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

The fight Napa's facing could be the big one...

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                            Wine or water, and 400 visitor centers                                    The county board of supervisors me...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Was Frank Lloyd Wright a misanthrope?

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It would explain his inspiring, if basically unlivable, architecture. ( From Preservation magazine ) *                   ...