Welcome to Vacation-Napa

The Silverado Trail runs 29 quiet miles past some of Napa's best-known Cabernet estates. This is the view most tour buses never see. Highway 29 gets the postcard shot and the Saturday afternoon...

Picking the right handful of wineries beats trying to see all 400 in one trip. Napa Valley has more than 400 wineries pouring right now, and if this is your first trip, that number is the whole...

This is what a good Napa wine club shipment feels like — vines out the window and a bottle worth opening the second it lands. You just spent the afternoon swirling Cabernet on a Stag's Leap...

Oxbow Public Market's main hall, where the garage doors roll open to the river on a good afternoon. You just spent the afternoon swirling Cabernet on a Stag's Leap patio, and now you're doing the...

Clusters of red grapes hanging from golden vines in Napa Valley during harvest season. There's a shift that happens in Napa Valley around late July that's hard to put into words. The light gets a...

The vineyards that changed wine history are still here — and in 2026, Napa Valley is marking fifty years since the Judgment of Paris with events that run from July straight through October. The...