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Napa Palisades Saloon - Expanding and Elevating their Game

Napa Palisades Saloon – Expanding and Elevating their Game

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Empress M – A Feast for All Senses

Empress M – A Feast for All Senses

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Eiko's - Celebrating Ten Years Serving the Napa Community

Eiko’s – Celebrating Ten Years Serving the Napa Community

https://www.napavalleylifemagazine.com/eikos-celebrating-ten-years-serving-the-napa-community/

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Fleetwood: Celebrating Wood-Fired Inspired Cuisine and the Calistoga Community

Fleetwood: Celebrating Wood-Fired Inspired Cuisine and the Calistoga Community

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Cornucopia: Napa Valley's Best Vegetarian and Vegan

Cornucopia: Napa Valley’s Best Vegetarian and Vegan

https://www.napavalleylifemagazine.com/napa-valleys-best-vegetarian-and-vegan/

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My First Hungarian Wine – A Silver Lining of the Pandemic

My First Hungarian Wine – A Silver Lining of the Pandemic

2018 Wetzer Furmint, Tokaj My First Hungarian Wine – A Silver Lining of the PandemicBy Elizabeth SmithWhile sheltering at home solo during the pandemic, Zoom interactions were my lifeline to the world personally and professionally, including wine tasting. I traveled the world through my wine glass, including appellations with which I was familiar, like Napa Valley, Lake County (California),…

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Pedroncelli's storyteller, Julie St. John and the Vino in my Din

Pedroncelli’s storyteller, Julie St. John and the Vino in my Din

COVID Coffee Chat May 19, 2021. Photo Credit: Elizabeth Smith Julie Pedroncelli St John grew up immersed in the family business, the Geyserville-based Pedroncelli Winery, which celebrates 94 years in 2021.This is my latest wine story for the Napa Valley Register with a mention of our weekly COVID coffee chat that Julie began over a year ago.*CLICK HERE TO READ*

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Napa Valley Life Magazine – Summer 2021 Digital Issue

Napa Valley Life Magazine – Summer 2021 Digital Issue

Here is the Napa Valley Life Magazine – Summer 2021 digital issue. You can flip through it online or download it by clicking the download icon in the top left corner.  It includes my two features. Enjoy Napa Valley: An Insider’s Guide to the Napa River’s Hidden History – pages 20-21 Cornucopia: Napa Valley’s Best Vegan and Vegetarian – pages 70-72Featuring C Casa, Heritage Eats, Kitchen Door,…

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Beth's Smart Sip: 2018 Fleur de California Vermentino, Estate Vineyards, Carnero

Beth’s Smart Sip: 2018 Fleur de California Vermentino, Estate Vineyards, Carnero

2018 Fleur de California Vermentino, Estate Vineyards, CarnerosPhoto Credit: Elizabeth Smith On Saturday, July 3, I visited Browns Valley Market in Napa, California, which has one of the most interesting – but small – wine sections in the city. I saw a wine I knew would be great, but instead, the label – yes, the label – and the varietal, Vermentino from Carneros, caught my attention. I…

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Wine grape residue as food? UC Davis scientists are studying the possibilities

Wine grape residue as food? UC Davis scientists are studying the possibilities

Chardonnay Marc Flours – Photo Credit UC Davis My latest Napa Valley Register wine story is the most academic writing I have done since my WSET 3 exam and doctoral dissertation – “Wine grape residue as food? UC Davis scientists are studying the possibilities.” It is a topic that piqued my interest because wine grape residue “shows promise in the areas of nutrition including intestinal health and…

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Beth's Smart Sip: 2019 Rumpus Reserve California Chardonnay

Beth’s Smart Sip: 2019 Rumpus Reserve California Chardonnay

Over the course of a couple of days, I tasted the 2019 Scott Peterson Wines Rumpus Reserve California Chardonnay. Oak fermented and aged on natural lees, including full malolactic fermentation, it reveals a balanced interplay of juicy tropical and citrus fruits, vanilla, and oak spice. It is all at once clean and creamy with a luscious texture and lively acidity on the finish. Can’t beat the QPR.…

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Nova Cadamatre: The busy life of a bi-coastal winemaker

Nova Cadamatre: The busy life of a bi-coastal winemaker

Photo credit: Jay Gillotti in the Napa Valley Register Since her first harvest in Pennsylvania in 2003 until today, Nova Cadamatre, MW, has worked as a winemaker for two of the world’s major wine brands at various wineries in California and New York, founded a family winery with her husband, Brian, in the Finger Lakes, and is set to launch a Finger Lakes project with Naked Wines, the company’s…

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Bucket List: Napa Valley's Best Fried Chicken and Wings

Bucket List: Napa Valley’s Best Fried Chicken and Wings

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The Fifth Anniversary of Napa's Mercadito Food Truck

The Fifth Anniversary of Napa’s Mercadito Food Truck

Photo Credit: Valentín Atayde, Mercadito Food Truck It is the fifth anniversary of Napa’s Mercadito Food Truck. Many of you know that I have written about Mercadito a few times and tried many of the meals. I am delighted to have a menu item named after me for the anniversary celebration. It is on today’s Thursday, April 8, 2021 menu and is customized to my dietary requirements. It features…

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My Silver Lining of 2020

My Silver Lining of 2020

Photo Credit: Frank Gutierrez On this first anniversary of the day COVID-19 changed our lives, I share my silver lining of 2020. Friday, March 13, 2020, I was furloughed, then permanently laid off a couple of months later, from the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone due to the COVID-19 shutdown. I was the professional wine tutor for the Master’s Degree in Wine Management; Bachelor’s…

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The Egg Lady of Hen Pen Farm

The Egg Lady of Hen Pen Farm

Photo Credit: Elizabeth Smith “Until the coronavirus disrupted life, most Napa County residents never knew of The Hen Pen Farms or Emma Rasmussen because she and the farm sold directly to bakeries, restaurants and other retailers. However, over the course of the past year, Rasmussen — ‘the Egg Lady’ — has become a household name.”*CLICK HERE TO READ*

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La Vie en Rose: Madeleine’s Macarons: How a Valentine's gift, fatherhood and a pandemic created a career for one Napa Valley family

La Vie en Rose: Madeleine’s Macarons: How a Valentine’s gift, fatherhood and a pandemic created a career for one Napa Valley family

Photo Credit: Madeleine’s Macarons A transplant to California in the early 1990s, Dennis McIninch, born in New Jersey and raised on Italian food, never anticipated that marriage, a daughter and a pandemic would set him on the path to perfecting a famous French sweet, macarons.“La Vie en Rose: Madeleine’s Macarons: How a Valentine’s gift, fatherhood and a pandemic created a career for one Napa…

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