January 17, 2017

A Vineyard in Napa by Doug Shafer Fills in an Important Historical Napa Timeline

 Working for the Robert Mondavi Winery, as Doug Shafer also has, gave me time to simultaneously study Napa history. The prior five years, I had been living and working in Sonoma County, and that history (and its characters) had become second nature. But, then being in the land of Napa, I needed to know more; so, I read Lin Weber’s “Old Napa Valley, The History to 1900.” That became a great base, and the rest was history, as the saying goes. After I had read that book and several others, I got a job in the Sierras as the Director of Public Relations for Ironstone Vineyards… And off I went into that history; then onto Diaz Communications, having more control over my own direction and destiny.