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Vintner’s Daughter

Beauty

Vintner’s Daughter

Terroir of beauty.

This cult beauty favourite applies the principles of winemaking to skin care.

Food and Drink

Premiere Napa Valley

Going, going, gone.

A unique annual weekend in which the stars really do come out.

Food and Drink

Robert Mondavi’s To Kalon Vineyard

Toasting an icon.

He has been called a pioneer, an uncompromising perfectionist, and the man who made Napa Valley a household name, but above all, Robert Mondavi was a visionary.

MONTECRISTO: Napa Valley

Travel

Napa Valley

Fog and sun.

There are few places that feature wine, the finest of fare, and a picturesque environment in abundance at world-class standards, but Napa Valley serves up some of the best in every category.

MONTECRISTO Magazine Spottswoode Wine

Food and Drink

Spottswoode Estate Vineyard and Winery

Spot on.

It’s been 27 years since Beth Novak Milliken returned home to help her mother run the family’s famed Napa Valley wine estate— Spottswoode. Hard work, persistence and fortitude have paid off for the Novak family.

MONTE Blog: Auction Napa Valley

Impact

Auction Napa Valley

For a good cause.

Though their motto for 2014 was “sweet home Napa Valley”, Auction Napa Valley could have easily gone with “go big or go home”. Because big is where bidders went, raising a record-breaking $18.7 million for healthcare and child education nonprofits in Napa Valley.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Californication

Food and Drink

Californication

Foresight, hindsight, great wine.

Any discussion of where California wine may be headed has to begin with how far it has come.

MONTECRISTO: Robert Mondavi

Food and Drink

Robert Mondavi Winery

The godfather of modern wine.

Robert Mondavi’s dream to build a world-class winery on the edge of Napa Valley’s Highway 29, visible to travellers passing by, changed everything about how wineries would interact with their customers for the next 50 years.

MONTECRISTO: California Cult Classics

Food and Drink

Frank Gigliotti and California Cult Classics

Cult wine.

It is a club, of sorts. California Cult Classics is a full-fledged winemaking facility, complete with oak barrels from France worth $1,400, and some of the rarest, most expensive wine grapes in the world.