How Napa Valley Became Itself—

A Short Story

By Karen MacNeil
July 5, 2024

Many people believe that Napa Valley just sprang on the modern wine scene and declared… Continue reading

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The first American Viticultural Area (AVA) was the Finger Lakes in New York State.

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“For a long time Sherry was a victim of changing tastes, with fortified wines, like sweet wines, having fallen out of style around the time Churchill was born. The category has come back in vogue lately, partly because of its affinity for complex foods, and also because anything grandmothers approve of inevitably ends up becoming hip again.”

—Adam Leith Gollner, Saveur, February 2018