Napa Valley draws more tourists than any other part of California's wine country and is also one of the most dynamic of California's wine regions. Every new season seems to bring a host of openings, closures, and new attractions that make a travel guide writer's life a nightmare. Most of the major changes to listings published in the Napa Valley chapter of the book are detailed below. If you know of any changes that have been missed, please send them using the contact link above.
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Even Fewer Bad Days at Kelly's |
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It didn't make it into the current edition of the book, but the bigger and better Kelly's “No Bad Days” Cafe in downtown Napa will certainly be the second edition, if for no other reason than the toilets. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 29 March 2006 )
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Napa's Red Hen flys the coop |
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It's been a fixture next to Highway 29 just North of Napa for as long as I can remember, but the big red hen atop a barn that marked the site of a cheap mexican eatery and the ramshackle Red Hen Antiques cooperative (page 38) is about to come crashing to earth, as over ambitious hens tend to do. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 23 March 2006 )
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Coppola goes for the big bucks |
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It used to be the Niebaum-Coppola Estate Winery in Rutherford (page 64) until Francis Ford Coppola smelled money. After buying the Chateau Souverain property in Sonoma's Alexander Valley, Coppola renamed his Napa Valley family jewel as Rubicon Estate in March 2006, and visitors cannot even get up the driveway now without forking over $25.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 23 March 2006 )
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