Raising the SteaksIN THE HILLS THAT ONCE SPARKED CALIFORNIA’S GOLD RUSH, GENESEE VALLEY RANCH IS RAISING A SPECIAL BREED OF CATTLE IN AN EQUALLY SPECIAL WAY. THEIR PRACTICES ARE ELEVATING AMERICAN GRASS-FED BEEF. THROUGH AN EXCLUSIVE MEMBERSHIP CLUB, DISCERNING GOURMANDS CAN TRULY TASTE THE DIFFERENCE.
What’s Next in FoodHERE’S THE BEEF – Join the Brasas Food & Wine Society with a Ranch Subscription to have a box of pasture-raised Black Wagyu beef delivered to your door two, four, or six time a year from Northern California’s Genesee Valley Ranch, where “cattle have the run of the ranch.” The same family owns and operates Napa Valley’s Palmaz Vineyards. www.geneseevalleyranch.com
Whether you’re spending summer in a humid or dry area of the world, it’s the perfect season to pour a glass of crisp white wine to sip outside by a bonfire or enjoy with the fresh fish dinner hot off the grill.
As a food and wine journalist for 7 years, writing for publications like Wine Enthusiast, Eater, and Kitchn, I’ve curated a list of favorites over the years of white wines that offer a little something different for anyone’s taste preferences.
If you want to envision the winery of the future — a winery that leverages cutting-edge technology with the ancient art of winemaking — look no further than Palmaz Vineyards, hidden within the forested ridges of Napa Valley’s Mt. George. Here, the Palmaz family is applying innovative, if not futuristic, tools to enhance the artistic elements of wine.
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For the wine and food lover in your life, a subscription-based gift that keeps on giving – in the form of wine and wagyu – might just be your best holiday bet. This joint offering from a family-owned and -operated California ranch and vineyard has an unlikely beginning.
“It’s not everyday that I get to speak with the Founder/CEO of a brand that I admire. In this episode of Freshly Brewed (and the final episode of a three-part series on wine), I speak with Florencia Palmaz, leader and co-founder of the world famous Palmaz Vineyards. We talk trust and loyalty, technology, supporting staff during tough times, and what wine means to the head of a winery. It’s a beautiful episode, so I hope you enjoy it!” – Jeffery Fenton
Few Napa Valley wineries – or any throughout the world for that matter – can claim history and proprietorship as compelling as that of Palmaz Vineyards. With its combination of Argentinian roots, 19th century California history, depth and breadth of fine wines, an ambitious culinary program, and show-stopping architecture and technology, Palmaz Vineyards can easily claim the title of Napa’s most distinctive luxury wine estate.
Founded in 1881 by Henry Hagen, a young entrepreneur who headed west in the 1850s amid the Gold Rush, Cedar Knoll Vineyard and Winery quickly established itself as notable, serving wine to San Francisco’s finest and even winning a silver medal for Hagen’s brandy in 1889 at the World’s Fair in Paris. The winery, one of Napa’s first, occupied the southern end of Napa along Mount George, on some 450 acres of hillside.
Grape: 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot, 2% Cabernet Franc
So often it’s assumed the appreciation of wine is a skill and pleasure that comes later in life, but Asian millennials are turning the notion on its head.
Using open source machine learning, Palmaz Vineyards developed a tool to automatically alert winemakers of environmental conditions. Soon, the data flowed like wine.
Christian Gastón Palmaz wanted to make winemaking smarter.
