![]() If Napa Valley is a paradise, though, it’s also a troubled one.Ĭlimate change has been cruel to Napa. It’s also a kind of paradise, bucolic but sophisticated, bathed in a golden light both atmospheric and metaphorical. Wine is made in all 50 states and wine grapes are grown in 49 of California’s 58 counties, but Napa Valley is heraldic, not just a wine region but an icon, one of America’s most valuable and illustrious brands. ![]() That perfume is also the scent of international acclaim-of legendary status, Olympian prestige. The vineyards glow sun-bright with mustard flowers in springtime, turn lush green in summer, blaze yellow and red in autumn as the leaves turn and the promising perfume of fermentation fills the air. Framed by the Vaca and Mayacamas mountains-30 miles long and five miles across at its widest point-Napa Valley is a place of uncommon beauty: Wooded knolls and forested mountain slopes contrast with tracts of vines sprawling across the valley floor and flowing up the hillsides.
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