Rocca Family in Napa is making very nice Cabernet and Syrah from two estate vineyards, one in Yountville, the other in the Coombsville subsection of Napa.

The San Francisco Business Times is reporting that 1-800-Flowers.com may buy what remains of New Vine Logistics, the wine shipping and fulfillment company based in Napa that went bust earlier this week.

With her pressed blue jeans, boots and done-up hair, it'd be easy to peg Patti Fetzer as the tough yet reticent heroine of a country song. And maybe if the second-generation grape grower were from the Tennessee Mountains instead of Mendocino's Redwood Valley, she would be. Because origins aside, Patti Fetzer has always had the classic American soul of a doer, a survivor, a woman determined to make it on her own.

The fellows over at Medlock Ames winery in Healdsburg have grand plans for the historic and at the moment closed-down Alexander Valley Store and Bar, including a farm stand, store, speakeasy-style bar, tasting room and outdoor gardens.

The founders of Far Niente Winery in the Napa Valley, a great name in Chardonnay and Cabernet, are finally unveiling what has been known as a secret project, a new Russian River project called EnRoute devoted to Pinot Noir.

Buena Vista Winery in Carneros is one of California's oldest winery and a pinot and chardonnay producer worth knowing. It'll be showing off its wines at a five-course dinner this Thursday night, May 21, at Bistro Boudin in San Francisco, part of the bistro's heritage wine dinner series.