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Napa Valley Floor Appellations

August 1st, 2008 at 6:06pm |

In the 1990’s, some growers began to support the idea of dividing the valley floor of Napa up into several sub-AVA’s, which would be named after the towns of the area, much like Bourdeaux’s appellations. The effort to create these AVA’s was never fully completed because the phylloxera outbreak became too demading on wine makers, [...]

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Napa Valley

August 1st, 2008 at 5:20pm |

The Napa Valley is the name of a county, but it is also a general AVA that contains many smaller AVA’s within itself. The area is only 30 square miles, and it has about 250 wineries. The Napa Valley soil consists of a complex range of different sedimentary soils, caused by repeated flooding of an [...]

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