Napa

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House-made sausage and salumi from a counter that has written two books about it, inside Oxbow. Nine to seven, every day.

Solid · Napa

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Ken Frank's rosti potato with creme fraiche and half an ounce of Regiis Ova ossetra, a dish he has been making since 1980. Wednesday to Sunday, from 5:30.

Solid · Napa

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The English muffin that the operator sells close to 7,000 of on a busy day. This is the Oxbow market counter, not the St Helena flagship.

Solid · Napa

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The 1973 S.L.V. Cabernet took the top red spot at the 1976 Paris blind tasting, above First Growth Bordeaux. You taste in sight of the vineyard that grew it.

Solid · Napa

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The akaushi beef short rib comes with potato boulangere and a Napa Cabernet glaze, and the list runs deep in back-vintage Napa Cabernet. Rock and soul are on, loud.

Listed · Napa

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Spain's oldest winemaking family planted Pinot Noir and Chardonnay on a Carneros hilltop in 1991. El Jardin Espanol pours the Iberian varietals nobody else here grows.

Listed · Napa

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Over twenty wines off one Carneros property, including Riesling and Pinot Meunier that nobody up-valley bothers to plant. The garden tasting is $45 and the wind comes off San Pablo Bay.

Listed · Napa

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Single-vineyard Stags Leap Cabernet from Elizabeth Vianna, and for $125 you taste it out in the vines from a touring cart. Dogs and kids allowed, which up here is rare.

Listed · Napa

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Ten dollars gets you a glass on the patio at Hirondelle House, refundable against a bottle. Above that, $125 buys aged library wines in the cellar.

Listed · Napa

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Mount Veeder Cabernet since 1978, bottled three ways, with a contemporary art collection you can walk through between pours. Thursday to Monday, by appointment.

Listed · Napa

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A private walk through a multi-level underground cave, then a seated salon where a house chef sends a plate against each wine. $150, two hours.

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Cellar 47 is a lounge cut into the cave and named for the 47 estate acres above it. The Cabernet Cave tasting seats you among barrels 130 feet down, $85.

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The Cellar Lounge sits inside the Occidental, a gravity-fed ghost winery, and pours library bottles among the barrels. Ten to four, by reservation, off Silverado Trail.

Listed · Napa

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A Polaris Ranger takes you up the hillside blocks where Hillside Select grows, then you taste it. $295 a head, two hours, eight people at most.

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UC Davis gave this vineyard's Cabernet clone Heritage status as FPS #30 in 1999, and SOLO comes off nothing else. Three estate wines for $50, walk-ins welcome.

Listed · Napa

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The room on Silverado Trail outside Yountville is not Paraduxx any more. It pours across the Duckhorn Collection now, from a $50 Pinot Noir flight to a $150 food pairing.

Listed · Napa

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Jarvis publishes a website of navigation and no words, and its other domain is dead, so I have nothing to tell you about the wine. The pin is 2970 Monticello Road, east of Napa.

Listed · Napa

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Carl Doumani sold Stags' Leap Winery in 1997, kept part of the vineyard, and had Friedensreich Hundertwasser design him a second winery on it. Twenty-nine acres, built on Petite Sirah.

Listed · Napa

825 Main St. Details to come.