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Feature Article
Oakville is home to some 40 wineries, 50 growers, and about 5,000 planted acres, mostly Cabernet. Napa artist Steven Gordon's pastel captures the bucolic beauty of Cab country.
Image courtesy of The Gordon Gallery ]
If Cabernet Put Napa Valley on the Map...Then Oakville is Cab Central
Just a short list: Robert Mondavi, Opus One, Screaming Eagle, Silver Oak, Dalla Valle, Far Niente, Groth, and Harlan, as well as the vineyards called Martha’s Vineyard, To-Kalon, and Backus.
by
Alan Goldfarb
November 16, 2007
Perhaps nowhere else on the North American continent does one find as many iconographic wineries and vineyards as there are in the Oakville AVA (American Viticultural Area). Oakville is Cabernet Sauvignon Central in a region that is known world-wide as Cab Country.
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