DAN DAWSON
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
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- Sep 14, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Napa Valley Register
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- Jul 20, 2026
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Eat Drink Cook: 'Everything will work out': How Greater Fool Wines is bucking the Napa headwinds (opens the original)
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Within the big picture of wine industry troubles are myriad stories of success and positivity. Well-established wineries following the Napa Valley luxury playbook that target the 0.5-percenters are doing well, for example. No surprise. More interesting to me are the people who dare to live the dream of making wine and build a brand and a business â wine sales headwinds be damned. I recently went to a tasting and talk by Hardy Wallace, the co-owner/winemaker of Extradimensional Wine Co Yeah!,
Eat Drink Cook: Picking the pricey wine, lunch at Mothers, Father John Brenkle and more (opens the original)
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A brief note about harvest 2026 before I get started. On Aug. 12, I got an email from Paula Kornell Sparkling. âCarneros fruit is all in!â reads the headline, then Paula writes âThis by far is the earliest harvest I can rememberâ¦Pinot Noir came in on July 23, with Chardonnay just a few days later. This is a month earlier than normal, even for sparkling wine.â Cabernet isnât far behind with valley floor harvest happening next week. I played an old game in my final âUnder $25 Winesâ
Eat Drink Cook: Selling wine: The product and the people (opens the original)
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Three days of wine seminars, tasting and touring gets me thinking about the people around the pitch and when itâs more important than the wine. I just wrapped up a busy week of tasting, listening, learning and connecting. Two days of wine classes at the Society of Wine Educators conference were followed by a wine tour and tasting day with Platypus Tours. The audience for each was different as night and day, and with that the presentations were opposites. Teachers taught teachers at the confere
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