Napa Valley wines and their
history
About
this time, vineyard workers are harvesting the grapes that Napa Valley wines
are made from. The first wine grapes in Napa Valley were Mission grapes,
brought to California by missionaries. They were tough and could adapt easily,
but didn’t necessarily make the best wines. Better varieties of wine grape were
brought to California in the nineteenth century, including the Cabernet
Sauvignon grape which has Mission resilience and French quality.
Napa Valley wines from a
winery near St. Helena
Some
of the best California wines come from Anderson’s Conn Valley Vineyards in Napa
Valley. A 10-minute drive from downtown St. Helena, these vineyards produce
world-class wines at affordable prices. The vineyard is south of Howell
Mountain, and offers you the chance to meet the owners and wine-makers and
taste excellent wine stored in a cave. Wine Merchants Gourmet includes them in
one of its Middle Valley tours.
An
example of what this winery has to offer is the Éloge, an exclusive blend. The 2008
Éloge comes from a year notable for its extremes — storms followed by a
prolonged frost in spring, a cool spring and early summer followed by
sweltering heat later. All this led to a vintage of low yield but high quality
— a dark ruby red wine with extraordinary aroms of black cherries, cedar,
leather, crushed rocks and smoked meats. It tastes of chocolate-dipped black
cherries and plums with toffee and spices. By ordering six bottles or more per
year, you can join their wine club, giving you discounts on many of their
finest wines.
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