In the simplest terms, small family-owned grower-producers do not have reasonable access to Direct-to-Consumer (“DTC”) sales under curren...

On the Wine Road host, Jeff Davis sits down with Elise Nerlove Rutchick to chat about Save The Family Farms. The group's goal is to convi...

As a second-generation Napa Valley native, I’ve always heard the name “Andy Beckstoffer.” He’s is a cultural icon in Napa Valley, known b...

This article was written by Esther Mobley, and published in the San Francisco Chronicle on May 11, 2020. Original post here. The past few...

Save the Family Farms (STFF) advocates for a level playing field for all Napa Valley wineries (big, small, and micro) to co-exist and hav...

We are very grateful for the customers and friends that are checking in on us during these scary times. Our Save the Family Farms members...

Rebecca Sciandri Griffin and Elise Nerlove Rutchick sit down with Ray Fister, host of Life Between the Vines to chat wine, multi-generati...

My love for viticulture and Enology (grape growing and winemaking) started at a young age before my family had our own vineyard. I have f...

The creation of a Napa County policy that will allow limited wine tastings and Direct to Consumer sales on small family vineyards will se...

This article was written and published by The Calistoga Tribune on December 6, 2019. By Pat Hampton, Tribune Publisher Save the Family Fa...

NAPA VALLEY, Calif. - Some small family-owned vineyards are banding together, hoping to add an amendment to Napa County's restrictions

This article was written and published by The San Francisco Chronicle. One group, Save the Family Farms, says the county’s tasting-room l...

Do you remember when you were young and had made something you were sure would make it onto your family fridge? That hope, dream, and det...

This article first appeared in The Vintner Project on September 10, 2019. Once the lifeblood of Napa County, small family farms are being...

We are the solution the county and the public have been looking for. We want to maintain the unique quality of Napa true Agriculture whi...

“The Napa Valley Tourism Improvement District (NVTID) was designed to provide specific benefits directly to payers by increasing room nig...

Leadership can be defined as aligning your actions, words and behaviors to your motivation. When you apply motivation alignment to leader...

Small family farms are the true legacy of Napa because they keep our founding traditions alive. Napa Valley is originally a community of...

Having farmed in the Napa Valley for the past 36 years, I have seen many changes during that time. Some good, some bad. But what I haven’...

I can remember in 1985 driving from Alameda where I then lived to visit Inglenook Winery in Rutherford. Inglenook was in those days a war...