Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...

Merlot is one of the most important Bordeaux varieties along with Cabernet Sauvignon. It's fleshier and ripens earlier than Cabernet, resulting in softer wines with plush tannins and fruit. Bordeaux ...

After achieving success as a lawyer, he joined GE Capital to work for CEO Jack Welch, as well as co-founding Texas Pacific Group, a private equity firm, which in 1995 purchased Beringer Vineyards ...

McMillan called this phase “the winery equivalent of the roadside fruit stand.” Beringer Vineyards was the first to offer tours and tastings to rouse interest from new customers.

A 1907 Victorian-style adults-only resort in the heart of Napa Valley, next to the Beringer Winery; hot air balloon rides nearby. On the north end of postcard-ready St. Helena, next door to the ...