- Robert Mondavi
Robert Gerald Mondavi (June 18, 1913–May 16, 2008) was a leading American vineyard operator whose technical improvements and marketing strategies brought worldwide recognition for the wines of the Napa Valley in California. From an early period, Mondavi aggressively promoted labeling wines varietally rather than generically. This is now the standard for New World wines.
- Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller (born October 14, 1955) is an American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He and his landmark restaurant, The French Laundry in the Napa Valley of Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, notably the Best California Chef in 1996 and the Best Chef in America in 1997. In 2005, he was awarded a three star rating by the Michelin Guide to New York for his restaurant Per Se, and in 2006, …
- Michael Chiarello
Michael Chiarello (born January 26, 1962 in Red Bluff, California, USA) is an American celebrity chef specializing in Italian-influenced California cuisine. He hosts the cooking show, "Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello", on the Food Network and hosts "NapaStyle" on the Fine Living Network. Chiraello owns a winery, Chiarello Family Vineyards, and NapaStyle, a purveyor of food, cookware, and furniture.
- Mike Grgich
Mike Grgich is a Croatian-American winemaker. He was born into a winemaking family in the town of Desne on Croatia's coastal Dalmatian region. He attended the University of Zagreb, where he studied viticulture and enology. However, he learned about California and wanted leave the then-Yugoslavia to become a winemaker there. In 1954, he fled communist Yugoslavia to West Germany, obtaining a fellowship to study there.
- Gustave Niebaum
Gustave Niebaum - originally Nybom - (1842-1908) acquired his maritime schooling in Helsinki, Finland. By the end of 1850s - now a Sea Captain - Gustave Niebaum had become the world's leading fur trader. Among his many known accomplishments Captain Niebaum founded the Alaskan Commercial Company in San Francisco, California.
- Charles O'Rear
Charles O'Rear is an American photographer best known for his photos of wine country and the image "Bliss" that was used as a standard wallpaper in Windows XP. O’Rear photographed for National Geographic Magazine for more than 25 years. He began his focus on winemaking in 1978 as an assignment to photograph the Napa Valley. Afterwards, he moved to Napa Valley and began photographing wine production around the world.
- Carole Meredith
Carole Meredith is the University of California, Davis geneticist who pioneered the use of DNA typing to differentiate between "Vitis vinifera" grape varieties. She is responsible for proving that Zinfandel, Primitivo, and Crljenak Kaštelanski are identical, as well as Charbono and Corbeau. She has now retired from academia and grows world-class Syrah in the Mount Veeder appellation of Napa Valley with her husband, Stephen Lagier, under the Lagier-Meredith label.
- Dede Wilsey
Dede Wilsey is a San Francisco socialite and philanthropist, the widow of prominent San Francisco businessman Al Wilsey. She was born Diane Dow Buchanan in 1944, to Mr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Buchanan, Jr.. Her father was, variously, the U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg and Austria, as well as the White House chief of protocol under Dwight Eisenhower. Her great-grandfather, Herbert Henry Dow, was the founder of Dow Chemical.
- Charles F. Shaw
Charles F. Shaw is an American businessman and former winery owner whose name is used for Charles Shaw wine, a brand of inexpensive table wines. Shaw graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business and was an investment banker. He became enamored with Beaujolais wine while living in Europe and moved to Napa Valley in 1974 to start a winery. In 1991 Shaw and his wife divorced and sold his original Charles Shaw label to Fred Franzia's Bronco Wine Company.
- Ann Rea
Ann Rea (born Elizabeth Ann Rea in 1964 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an Artist most widely known for her paintings of California Vineyards. Rea has dual citizenship (United States, United Kingdom) Rea received a formal art training and graduated in 1987 from the Cleveland Institute of Art (founded in 1882) with a major in Industrial Design. San Francisco-based artist Ann Rea, "The California Painter", has a rapidly growing national artistic reputation, …
- Jessamyn West
Mary Jessamyn West was an American Quaker who wrote numerous stories and novels, notably "The Friendly Persuasion" (1945). Much of her work concerns Indiana Quakers. Although she was born in Vernon, Indiana she left the state at the age of six. Asked about this in an interview, she said, "I write about [Indiana] because knowing little about it, I can create it." Comparing herself to other authors that created fictional universes, …
- Amanda Peterson
Amanda Peterson (born July 8, 1971 in Greeley, Colorado) is an actress who gained much fame during the late 1980s, when she portrayed Cindy Mancini, a Tucson, Arizona high-school student, in the movie "Can't Buy Me Love". Peterson and co-star Patrick Dempsey obtained teen idol status after the release of the 1987 movie. Prior to that, Peterson had TV appearances in "Father Murphy" and "Silver Spoons".
- Idwal Jones
Idwal Jones was both a novelist and non-fiction writer at the turn of the twentieth century. Jones focused a lot of his writing on the beauty and population boom in California and the west. He won a Newbery Medal Honor in 1937 for "Whistler's Van". Some of his most famous works include: "The Vineyard" and "The Ark of Empire: San Francisco's Montgomery Block" "The Vineyard" tells the story of Napa Valley citizens and their love for the land.
- Julie Caitlin Brown
Julie Caitlin Brown (born January 27, 1961) is an American actress and musician best known for her role as Na'Toth in the first season of the science fiction television series "Babylon 5". Born in San Francisco, California, Brown moved to Napa Valley, California at the age of 18, where she worked as a jazz and blues singer. Her first stage role was as Mary Magdalene in a 1983 professional production of "Jesus Christ Superstar".
- John Getz
John Getz (born October 15, 1946) is a stage-trained American actor. He is often cast as upstanding if somewhat green characters on TV, and as varying degrees of sleazeballs in films.
- Jeff Doyle
Jeff Doyle (born September 5, 1955) an American author. He writes financial suspense novels that are set in Northern California. San Francisco is a favorite back drop as are the Napa Valley, the California river delta, and the mountain hamlet of Truckee in the Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe. Doyle graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1978. While at the university, Doyle worked in the housing department, …
- Diane Marie Disney
Diane Marie Disney (born December 18, 1933), is the only biological child of Walt Disney and his wife Lillian. She had, however, an adopted sister, Sharon Mae Disney, who was three years younger. Diane is a noted philanthropist. Following her father's death, she has donated nearly five million dollars to various charities within the United States. She and husband Ronald William Miller have six children.
- Gustav Otto Ludolf Heine
Gustav Otto Ludolf Heine (January 7, 1868 - April 23, 1959) was the owner of a successful piano business ("Heine Piano Company") in San Francisco, which was formerly his boss's ("Bruenn Piano Company"). He was born near Boizenburg (Ludwigslust district) in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on January 7th, 1868. He moved to Napa Valley, possibly in 1873, with his parents and seven siblings. By the time he was sixteen years old, …
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- Merlot Moon
"Keep a lookout" He down in her place, tge ckear cold water on his hands and face, in his mouth. down his throat. He had never really *tasted* water before.".
- Tyler Cohen
Love Poker, The Dane Train, and Watchin movies. im workin on gettin new pics, or just one to begin with :)
- Tyler Cohen
- Lara
God made Lara. No other sentence could I define myself perfectly other than that one. Indeed. In the morning I mostly drag, until I take a shower. I love all seasons, especially spring and winter, but I cry when I am too cold. The best bed to sleep on is grass. I understand why war begins, but I do not understand why there can't be more peace in this world. I like green tea with lemon.
- Samantha
Hi, I'm Sam. Sam I am. I am Sam. Thats about all you need to know about me. Any questions, message me.
- Holly
People call me happy holly cause I'm always happy. I have some of the best friends a girl could ever have and some wild ones too. I work at a crazy ass job which I love and a live in an awesome house with my husband but we're gonna move in a year due to my fear of spiders. People who know me know what I'm talking about-ha-ha. Anyway we have an adorable little puppy named Patches and two cats-Mittens and Cali.
- Amelia Strommen
You are Maryiln Monroe.
- Brittany Payton
I'm the girl who gives new meaning to "dumb blonde"...
- Kyle
found this.
- Eliza Kelly
My name is Eliza and I am a chef by trade.
- Heather Luna
Hello, my name is Heather and I LOVE my Friends and Family! I am very easy going and very friendly.
- Katie
Hi there, my name is Katie. I currently live in Napa Valley in Northern Ca. I am Scottish/ Welsh. I am enrolled and starting nursing school soon. I am a kind, playful, loving, and sometimes wild girl. Everything in moderation, but there are definitely times when I like to let loose and just enjoy the sporadic nights life brings. I LOVE: Singing. Laughing. Being silly. The color pink. Vampires.
- Lisa Austin
I'm extremely close to my family. My sisters are my BFFs. I'm an easygoing gal, quite shy upon first meeting, but I open up after a while revealing my goofy and, sometimes, crazy side. Music is a large passion of mine. I just finished grad school (YIPEEEEE!!) and I'm back in the beautiful Napa Valley for a while, working on my music and seeing where life takes me. To be continued...
- Kelly Loomis
let's see... i grew up in a small town, Calistoga, in the Napa Valley, with my parents and my older brother. i had to break away for a while so i moved to southern cali for college. i graduated from Chapman University, and just completed my master's degree in occupational therapy at USC-- FIGHT ON!! i've returned to nor cal and have started my first OT job working as a school-based therapist with the local kiddies in Santa Rosa.
- Jeanne Gustafson
I want to do something with my life that will contribute to mankind and world we live in because let's face it, we only have one Earth and all us people are each other's peeps so even though there are some who are slightly degenerate, we still have to spread the love.
- Ashley Hewitt
Life is too short,.
- Amanda
I am Amanda Denise Bidwell,I have a blood disease called Thalassemia. You can find out about it in my Interests area. You can type Bidwell or Thalassemia in your aol search or ask.com or what-ever you use and find out about me.
- Marna
A free spirit and a warm heart. I love to laugh as hard & as frequently as possible. Thoughtful and affectionate. Thankful for too many things to list. I greatly value integrity and communication. Not so hot at math or on the bbq. Am passionate about life in general.
- Lizzy
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies. I say,It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips.I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.