{"id":70010,"date":"2025-11-26T01:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70010\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:26:08","slug":"the-napa-vineyard-behind-some-of-californias-best-cabernet-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70010\/","title":{"rendered":"The Napa Vineyard Behind Some of California\u2019s Best Cabernet Wines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Hi, all you wine lovers, it\u2019s Elin, your expert in all things vino, with the latest news and tales of my adventures. This month, I happily traded a blast of East Coast cold for the warm sun of Napa, Sonoma and Lodi in California. One draw was the 2025 Old Vines Conference, a five-day extravaganza packed with tastings, discussions, panels on new scientific and historical research, and tours of twisted, gnarled 100-year-old vines. All of it convinced me that we should all be buying more old-vine wines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">But I also managed visits to other important California vineyards, including under-the-radar Vine Hill Ranch in Oakville, one of Napa Valley\u2019s most prestigious sources of cabernet sauvignon. Nine well-known producers use the estate\u2019s grapes to create their own interpretations of the site and put the vineyard\u2019s name on the label like a badge of honor. More on this worldwide trend in a minute. First, here\u2019s what I\u2019ve been reading:  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi, all you wine lovers, it\u2019s Elin, your expert in all things vino, with the latest news and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41257,387,7,9,8,41258,41260,13576,9714,1969,41261,2214,2422,41259],"class_list":{"0":"post-70010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-andy-beckstoffer","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-headlines","12":"tag-california-news","13":"tag-costco-wholesale-corp","14":"tag-crush","15":"tag-napa-valley","16":"tag-pursuits","17":"tag-retail","18":"tag-south-africa","19":"tag-supreme-court","20":"tag-travel","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}