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jim white
Napa Valley, California
Interests: food, wine, chocolate, food and wine, oh, and did i mention wine and food?
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Come Celebrate The Cameo Cinema’s 100th Birthday -- Major Party May 15!
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Talk about projecting yourself! Over the past century, the Cameo Cinema, in St. Helena, first projected silent films, then talkies, then 3D, computer-generated, digital epics. And now, on the eve of turning 100, the dowager screen queen is being remodeled... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2013 at napaman.com
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The Only Time it Pays to be Sheepish!
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Or maybe I mean it’s the only time you have to pay to be sheepish!? I just returned from Sonoma County where they're holding the 19th annual Sheepdog Trials at Oak Springs Ranch, on the outskirts of Santa Rosa. This... Continue reading
Posted Mar 15, 2013 at napaman.com
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Napa Valley Premiere Barrel Auction Raises More than $3 million!
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Auctioneer Fritz Hatton sets the auction in motion... $3,044,500 to be exact, by napaman’s tally. More than 1,000 wine tradespeople, media personnel and winemakers crammed into the barrel room of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), in St. Helena, today... Continue reading
Posted Feb 23, 2013 at napaman.com
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Napa Valley – How I Do Love Thee!
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The only way you can make living in Napa Valley any better is to stage a weekend wine event, invite a thousand professional wine tasters, and let them loose, tasting hundreds of unreleased wines. It’s a bit like inviting lemmings... Continue reading
Posted Feb 22, 2013 at napaman.com
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Napa Valley’s Purple Floss Weekend Has Finally Arrived!
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Kelly Kehoe, business manager, and Robert Foley, winemaker In case you’ve been living in a cave, you know that this is the weekend Napa Valley Vintners hosts its annual winter, Premiere Barrel Auction, an excuse for wine retailers and tradespeople... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2013 at napaman.com
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The 2011 Chateauneufs-du-Pape – prettier and sexier than a politician’s mistress! And cheaper, too!
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The 2011 Chateauneuf-du-Pape circus has come to town (if you live in San Francisco this is true). Wine importer Alain Junguenet Angeles Wine Agency, out of southern California, and wine importer Alain Junguenet hosted a tasting of 2011 Chateauneufs-du-Pape at... Continue reading
Posted Feb 8, 2013 at napaman.com
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Secret to Making the World’s Best Negroni Cocktail!
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Recently, I had the best Negroni cocktail that I’ve ever had at Il Buco Alimentari, in NYC. That cocktail, the color of faded Venetian draperies, displayed a pitch-perfect balance of sweetness and bitterness; it sported a sensational middle palate with... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2013 at napaman.com
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Margrit Mondavi Honored for a Lifetime of Wine Achievements
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Margrit Mondavi, the Wine World’s Patron Saint of Culture, was recognized this afternoon for her lifetime contribution to the American wine industry, essentially for proving to us all that wine is part of an active lifestyle. Man cannot live on... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2013 at napaman.com
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Best Meal of the Year! (And It’s Only The First Week of January!)
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New York City: it ain’t your granddaddy’s dining scene! (Painting by Edward Hopper, 1930, “Tables for Ladies.”) My three best meals in New York last week were all Italian, and one of them will likely remain on top of my... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2013 at napaman.com
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Best Wines of the Year!
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2001 Domaine Roger Sabon, Le Secret des Sabon Six years ago, I visited one of my favorite wine producers in the world, Domaine Roger Sabon, in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, in the southern Rhone. The consulting winemaker to this property, Alain Benquet, who... Continue reading
Posted Dec 3, 2012 at napaman.com
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St. Helena Goes to the Dogs...
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... and the parrots, too. For today, townsfolk held the annual St. Helena Pet Parade. kicking off an all-day Octoberfest-cum-Harvest Festival, featuring an artisanal crafts fair. Residents of St. Helena lined both sides of Oak Street to watch the pet... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2012 at napaman.com
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Best Wine Tasting of the Week
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Napaman was invited to Spottswoode’s Summer Garden Party, in St. Helena, today, one of my fondest annual winery events. The wine is always good, the food is fabulous (catered today by Oak Avenue Catering), and the setting can’t be improved.... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2012 at napaman.com
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In St. Helena, FB Does NOT Mean Facebook. FB is the Town’s Toniest New Restaurant – French Blue!
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Not sure why they called it French Blue, given that the sexy, blue hue is only an edging detail here. Howard Backen, impresario, architect, and now restaurant owner Better they should have called it “Backen White,” after the predominant shade,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 16, 2012 at napaman.com
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They Finally Hosted a Cultural Event for Margrit at Mondavi Winery!
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After four decades of hosting receptions for visiting artists, chefs and musicians at her family’s winery, Margrit Mondavi was finally accorded her own cultural reception yesterday – for the publication of her new book, Sketchbook: Reflections on Wine, Food, Art,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2012 at napaman.com
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A Shout Out – for the First Talkie Film!
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Okay you mugs, listen up! This is the President speaking… The President … of the Al Jolson Fan Club of Toronto, Canada, which a classmate and I started in 1960. We loved the first talkie, The Jazz Singer, made in... Continue reading
Posted Jul 4, 2012 at napaman.com
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The Valley is Super-charged – Wine Auction 2012 has begun!
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Nearly 2,000 visitors and Napa Valley residents bumped hips Friday at Jarvis Winery, kicking off Auction Napa Valley 2012. Under several Big Tops…. 2,000 guests nibbled hand-held appetizers, presented by 40 of the valley’s top chefs and caterers, then paired... Continue reading
Posted Jun 1, 2012 at napaman.com
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How Can a Wine Be This Good 13 TIMES???
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The only wine in my life of which I have drunk an entire case and rated every single bottle of the case a perfect wine was the 1990 Le Vieux Donjon, from Chateauneuf-du-Pape. I LOVED THAT CASE. And every bottle... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2012 at napaman.com
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Best Wine of the Year so Far!
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Six years ago, I visited one of my favorite wine producers, Domaine Roger Sabon, in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, on a visit to the southern Rhone. The consulting winemaker to this property, Alain Benquet, is a good, longtime friend and he secured a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2012 at napaman.com
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GIII – It could stand for Gorgeous Grape Growing!
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These uncommonly good wines come from grapes commonly grown in one of the most historically important vineyards in Napa Valley. GIII (G3) sounds like a hot new sports car, or maybe a reference to a summit meeting of finance ministers... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2012 at napaman.com
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Waiter, Hail Me a Cab…
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In fact, get me four Cabs - two from France and two from Napa Valley. Our Boys Night out For Burgers started earlier yesterday when I read winewriter Richard Jenning’s column on 2001 Napa Valley Cabs. Richard is my favorite,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 3, 2012 at napaman.com
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Here Comes the (Tuscan) Sun!
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Get out your Crayola crayon and circle NOON, Sunday, April 1 on your calendar. This is when the Cameo Cinema, in St. Helena, will host a premiere showing of Under the Tuscan Sun. This is the movie adaptation of Frances... Continue reading
Posted Mar 22, 2012 at napaman.com
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Don’t miss this sensational winemaker dinner, April 19!
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Hola! If you live in the Bay-area within the sound of my voice, circle April 19 on your calendar and immediately call Tra Vigne restaurant, in St. Helena, to reserve a seat, or two. Charter Oak, homegrown here in Napa... Continue reading
Posted Mar 1, 2012 at napaman.com
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I’m In a New York State of Mind
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Just back from a week in New York and my head is dancing with images of some of the most intense, and pleasurable, foods I have tasted in two years. Rather than get into hyper-specific detail and a micro-review of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 1, 2012 at napaman.com
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Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! NO, It's Yowayowa!
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For half-a-year, I have been enjoying a most original, deliciously visual site called Levitation. A young Japanese photographer, Yowayowa, captures her own image in various stages of "flight," though what she is actually doing is jumping at the instant her... Continue reading
Posted Jan 30, 2012 at napaman.com
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Best Wines of the Year
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Ready, gang? Here’s my annual summary of the year’s best wine experiences. Not just wines, but best wine experiences. Often we open great wines, which score high marks for what’s in the bottle; but a great wine experience has as... Continue reading
Posted Dec 17, 2011 at napaman.com
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