Napa Valley has long-claimed the wealth of headlines about California wine. The irony in this is that it produces but 4% of all wine in California each year. Sonoma County to the west of Napa is both larger in terms of physical size, more historic, and produces nearly 50% more wine than Napa Valley. And yet, it doesn’t see the same headlines despite being a mighty friendly wine region in my opinion. I suppose a great deal of this has to do with Napa’s Judgment of Paris fame tied into […]

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