So buy a $10 steak and open a bottle of 2005 Chateau Montelena Estate Zinfandel, from Napa Valley. This beauty costs $30, so it is not an everyday wine, but certainly a Friday night wine. This dark ...

This grape’s genetic roots can be traced to modern-day Croatia, where it's known as Crljenak or Tribidrag; both Zinfandel and the southern Italian grape Primitivo are clones of this Croatian variety.

Chateau Montelena Winery’s proposed sale to Bordeaux vintner Michel Reybier is off. A press release from the 127-year-old Calistoga winery Wednesday said “Reybier Investments has been unable ...

“We’ve gone whole hog with respect to raiding our library,” said owner Jim Barrett, who also noted that the winery never again would be able to do such a tasting. Château Montelena’s ...

The winery finds itself hosting an increasing ... a partnership of vintners Nils Venge and Mark Carter. Chateau Montelena, 1429 Tubbs Lane, Calistoga; (707) 942-5105 or montelena.com.

As Crafton sees it, the business of Chateau Montelena hinges entirely on what ... are overseeing the largest vineyard replanting in the winery’s history. (In France, Barrett maintains, it ...

We also tasted half a dozen wines that demonstrated the fantastic ... and with another 20 years of life ahead. Chateau Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 1991 Impeccably mature, redolent of ...

Chateau Montelena has made waves as an investment quality wine. The winery looks at each vintage as a singular year that will never happen again, Crafton says, making each wine an embodiment of a ...

California’s Chateau Montelena could easily cash in year after year on its legendary “Judgment of Paris” victory in 1976. At that infamous wine tasting in Paris, the winery’s 1973 ...

This grape’s genetic roots can be traced to modern-day Croatia, where it's known as Crljenak or Tribidrag; both Zinfandel and the southern Italian grape Primitivo are clones of this Croatian variety.