Wine Gummies

How to Make Wine Gummies

Wine gummy bears are incredibly easy to make and incredibly delicious to eat! Use whatever wine you want: red, white, Rosé, or even sparkling wine for the holidays! Ingredients 1/2 cup sugar 1 cup wine 3 tbsp powdered gelatin gummy bear molds Method Combine the wine, sugar and gelatin in a saucepan over medium low…

Beginner's Guide to Italian Wine

Beginner’s Guide to Italian Wine

With over 800 grape varieties and hundreds of years of winemaking history, it can be frustrating to know where to begin when it comes to Italian wine. That’s why we put together this quick guide to get you started in the amazing world of Italian wines. Italian Wine Terms DOCG: Denominazione di Origine Controllata e…

Autumn Wine

Autumn Wines

Autumn is here and although we’ll miss the cookouts, swimming pools, and vacations, there’s a lot to look forward to as the seasons change such as family holidays, fall weather, and the gorgeous changing foliage. While we’re not quite ready to break out the Cabernet, one important consolation of summer’s end is the chance to…

Napa Harvest Traditions

Napa Valley Harvest Traditions

Harvest time in Napa Valley is a whirlwind of hard work that sweeps up almost every one in a veritable crush of activity. Somewhere in that great grape maelstrom, a sense of shared commitment and celebration is forged. Slowly, traditions form around the tempo of the harvest. Blessed Blessing the Grapes: one of the oldest…

Napa Valley sign at sunset.

Napa Valley, Part 2

See Part 1 here! Napa Valley may be a giant in the world of wine, but its actual wine production is relatively small. The floor of Napa Valley is only 30 miles long and 5 miles across with 46,000 acres under cultivation all over Napa. To put that in context, the wine growing region of…

Napa Valley Map

Napa Valley, Part 1

A near-perfect climate combined with proximity to bustling San Francisco have made Napa Valley the premier wine region in the New World. Beginnings: Pioneers Grape production in Napa Valley began in the nineteenth century with George C. Yount. Yount’s vineyard grew to encompass land that included what is now Rutherford, Oakville, and Yountville, now considered…