Archive of: Features

Crossing the great divide

At the Napa Valley Film Festival

Wine Dogs

Meet some of the local dogs that help run the winery

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Ram’s gate

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For a Brother’s love

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Mr. and Mrs. America

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Count George

It was his wife, actually, who gave him the nudge needed when she recommended he try staging historical walking tours for out-of-town visitors. “It felt like a grenade detonated inside my head,” Webber says of that moment. “I spent a year researching, reading and writing.” When Webber debuted the concept in 2001

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Val Haraszthy

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The Count of Buena Vista

If Count Agoston Haraszthy could have been present at the 200th anniversary of his birth—surviving somehow the ravages of time and the jaws of the Nicaraguan alligator that allegedly ate him—he would no doubt have been a very happy man.

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Porch Wines

It’s a porch wine. It’s what the top of your tongue and the back of your throat are silently asking for on a hot summer day when you’ve pulled off the gloves and rolled up the sleeves and parked yourself on the front porch around noon with a perfect deli sandwich.

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Krave goes krazy

What’s a better grade than A-Plus? How about A-Plus followed by six zeroes?

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