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After visiting pristine Napa Valley and visiting every winery with their splendid special events you might just feel you've accomplished all there is to do here. Yet with a community based in agriculture and a population of visionary citizens from all corners of the world there can be much still left to enjoy.

As olive oil is becoming more widely used by Americans, the number of olive-oil producers has risen, as has the interest in touring and tasting. A handful of properties in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys have begun to offer olive-grove tours and olive oil tasting as alternatives to winery hopping. Some of the tasting is for both wine and olive oil; others focus exclusively on the fruit of the olive tree.

There comes a time every year when the traffic streaming along Highway 29, the main artery through the Napa Valley, slows to the kind of rolling stop that one associates with gridlock. But not all travelers to the valley are tracking the circuit of half-glass pours and spit jugs. For more than a century, thousands have also made the trek to Calistoga at the northern end of the Napa Valley hoping to reverse the effects of high living by immersing themselves in primordial gunk.

As always we review each wine for our shelves with highly focused attention to quality, regardless of who might be on the label. We enjoy offering you a wide selection of complex wines with detailed information for your wine purchases.

| Jeff Yates | | Geoff Smith | |Eric Carpenter |