There are certain producers whose name must be included when discussing Napa Valley’s rise to prominence in the wine world. Grgich Hill Cellars is on the shortlist. Back in the ‘70s, founder Mike Grgich was the winemaker at Chateau Montelana. It was Mike who...
Thanks to club member Jeffrey Russel and many other bidding club members and fans, Grgich Hills Estate’s “Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Judgement of Paris with Miljenko ‘Mike’ Grgich” lot was the top e-auction at this year’s Auction Napa Valley This annual...
Author George Taber joins Violet Grgich at the Smithsonian display of the wine crafted by Mike Grgich. Violet Grgich represented her father, Miljenko “Mike” Grgich, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on May 16-17 in Washington, DC. On May 16 she...
Exactly forty years ago, Napa Valley wineries were quietly making a name for themselves with worldwide acknowledgment only a slim hope. While the wineries around Modesto, California still reigned as the center for American wines, Robert Mondavi was traveling the...
Participants relive the blind tasting 40 years ago that helped make Napa Valley famous By Kim Brunhuber, CBC News Drive into California’s Napa Valley from either direction and you’ll find a sign welcoming you to the “world famous wine...
By Esther Mobley, May 19, 2016 I’m getting Judgment of Paris fatigue. This Tuesday, May 24, marks the 40th anniversary of the competitive tasting in which Napa wines beat out their French counterparts. But it feels like the anniversary has lasted half a year — at...
