Napa Valley California - 2020 - 18
FIRST LOOK I HISTORY
Deep Roots
NAPA VALLEY'S HISTORY STARTS WITH THE SOIL AND IS
CELEBRATED WITH WIDE OPEN SPACES.
BY CAREY SWEET
I
f George Calvert Yount hadn't been
such a talented carpenter back in the
19th century, the agriculture-rich Napa
Valley we know today might have been
a very different place. Thanks to Yount's
superb woodworking skills, he caught the
eye of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, who hired him to build cabins while
transitioning the region from a Mexican
territory to a U.S. state.
In 1836, Vallejo granted Yount the
11,887-acre Rancho Caymus in what's
now Napa County, where Yount built a
home and became the area's first European permanent settler. By 1839, Yount had
18
VISITNAPAVALLEY.COM | 2020
installed vineyards, planting the area's
first wine grapes and finding success with
the fruit.
Yount passed away in 1865 before
seeing the town of Yountville named in
his honor two years later. Still, Yount
witnessed the start of the Napa Valley
viticultural evolution. Other vineyard
pioneers, such as John Patchett and
Hamilton Walker Crabb, quickly followed in his grape-stained footsteps, and
in 1861, Charles Krug founded Napa
Valley's first commercial winery. The race
was on, and the area soon welcomed
Schramsberg Vineyards (1862), Beringer
(1876), and Inglenook (1879), with more
than 140 wineries in operation by 1889.
In the early 1920s, however, prohibition
shut down many of these wineries. Prohibition was repealed in 1933, and in the
early 1940s, realizing the importance of
working together, seven local winemakers formed the first Vintners Association
(now 550 members strong). Robert Mondavi established his namesake winery in
1966. His marketing skills helped put
the region on the global map, followed
by the most extraordinary achievement a
decade later: France's Judgment of Paris
of 1976.
An English wine merchant set some
of the finest French wines against little-known California labels in a blind
tasting, and to the esteemed French
judges' great shock, the Napa Valley's
own Chateau Montelena Chardonnay
and Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet
Sauvignon took home the gold medals.
Finally, the region's world-class grapes
could bask in the true glory they de-
COURTESY OF C. MONDAVI & FAMILY
1
http://www.VISITNAPAVALLEY.COM
Napa Valley California - 2020
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Napa Valley California - 2020
Contents
Napa Valley California - 2020 - Cover1
Napa Valley California - 2020 - Cover2
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 1
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 2
Napa Valley California - 2020 - Contents
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 4
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 5
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 6
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 7
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 8
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 9
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 10
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 11
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 12
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 13
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 14
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 15
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 16
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 17
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 18
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 19
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 20
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 21
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 22
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 23
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 24
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 25
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 26
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 27
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 28
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 29
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 30
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 31
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 32
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 33
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 34
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 35
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 36
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 37
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 38
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 39
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 40
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 41
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 42
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 43
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 44
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 45
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 46
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 47
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 48
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 49
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 50
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 51
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 52
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 53
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 54
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 55
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 56
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 57
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 58
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 59
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 60
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 61
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 62
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 63
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 64
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 65
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 66
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 67
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 68
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 69
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 70
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 71
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 72
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 73
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 74
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 75
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 76
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 77
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 78
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 79
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 80
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 81
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 82
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 83
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 84
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 85
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 86
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 87
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 88
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 89
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 90
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 91
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 92
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 93
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 94
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 95
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 96
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 97
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 98
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 99
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 100
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 101
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 102
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 103
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 104
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 105
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 106
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 107
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 108
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 109
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 110
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 111
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 112
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 113
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 114
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 115
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 116
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 117
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 118
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 119
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 120
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 121
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 122
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 123
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 124
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 125
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 126
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 127
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 128
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 129
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 130
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 131
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 132
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 133
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 134
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 135
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 136
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 137
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 138
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 139
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 140
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 141
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 142
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 143
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 144
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 145
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 146
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 147
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 148
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 149
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 150
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 151
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 152
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 153
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 154
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 155
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 156
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 157
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 158
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 159
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 160
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 161
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 162
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 163
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 164
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 165
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 166
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 167
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 168
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 169
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 170
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 171
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 172
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 173
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 174
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 175
Napa Valley California - 2020 - 176
Napa Valley California - 2020 - Cover3
Napa Valley California - 2020 - Cover4
https://www.nxtbookmedia.com