COVID Carnage by Christina Julian· September 11, 2020 6:32 pm·Analysis and number crunching were never my jam, but lately, the stats are hard to ignore, as industries and businesses…
Tasting Rooms A Go-Go by Christina Julian· August 20, 2020 9:56 pm·When COVID-19 slammed the door shut on life as we knew it, it felt like the world might never reopen…
Restaurant Wars by Christina Julian· August 20, 2020 3:41 pm·What began as a column covering the impacts of the coronavirus on the restaurant and wine industries has morphed into…
Business During COVID-19 by Christina Julian· August 18, 2020 6:54 pm·The day Napa County announced that school would close for the remainder of the academic year, I shed my first…
Napa Valley Imagined by Christina Julian· March 5, 2020 12:00 am·With the new decade more than dawning, wine times are changing, according to data from IWSR, as reported by The…
Buzz Kill by Christina Julian· February 4, 2020 12:00 am·Every January, I make the requisite New Year’s resolutions, alongside all my compadres who vow, “This year will be different!”…
The Wrath of Mother Nature by Christina Julian· January 2, 2020 12:00 am·One of the challenges of writing a column is the speed at which news changes and the disparity between when…
Power Plays by Christina Julian· November 26, 2019 12:00 am·As I sat down to write this month’s column, it coincided with the two-year anniversary of the Napa and Sonoma…
Reel Time by Christina Julian· November 7, 2019 12:00 am·November once signaled the end of harvest season, and the traffic and buzz about town that goes with it. But…
Water and Land Use Wars by Christina Julian· October 4, 2019 12:00 am·In a land that lives and dies by its grapes and the luxury gourmet food and wine scene, there has…