The meeting that changed Napa Valley: How a handful of farmers reshaped American wine

The meeting that changed Napa Valley: How a handful of farmers reshaped American wine

Lea el artículo en español aquí. Ren Harris didn’t set out to reshape Napa Valley. He just wanted better grape prices. So one evening in 1975, he called a few neighbors to his house in Oakville — names that today read like a who’s who of modern Napa wine history: John Trefethen, Virgil Galleron, Justin Meyer and Andy Beckstoffer. Harris, a former San Francisco contractor who had recently ripped out 30 acres of prune trees and planted grapes, got…