October 11, 2022 0 Your Story: The Hearts of These Farmers By: Christopher Tenggren My Story of Jim & Barbara Richards of Paloma Vineyards - Spring Mountain, Napa Valley, CA Long ago now (and many of the Read More
May 18, 2022 0 Our Story: Sheldon’s Craft Sheldon started life in west Texas where his geologist father, Jim, searched for oil and gas. By the time Sheldon was 12, his father’s Read More
May 18, 2022 1 Your Story: Our memory of Jim & Barbara Richards By Lewis Morgenstern In 2005-2006, my wife and I were making one of our first Napa trips. I called Paloma and Barbara answered. She invited Read More
April 29, 2022 0 Your Story: How we fell in love with Paloma We were 3 couples on our annual trip back in 2008: my brother Rob and his wife Jean from Raleigh (they are most knowledgeable), Read More
January 15, 2022 0 2021 Year in Review In August, we were all very excited to welcome a new member of the Richards family into the world: Fynn Carter Richards. Jace and Read More
May 9, 2021 1 2020 Year in Review In the fall of 2019, we removed another 450 aging Merlot vines and replaced them in the spring of 2020 with Cabernet Franc. We Read More
April 21, 2021 1 Your Story: Joy & Solomon’s Chandelier In 2010, Joy and I visited Paloma for the first time. We met Paloma’s matriarch, Barbara Richards. Not only did we have a great Read More
December 27, 2019 1 2019 Year in Review Harvest of 2019 was subject to another set of fires. This time strictly North/North West of Napa in the Mendocino and Shasta regions. Fire, Read More
December 27, 2018 1 2018 Year in Review Even though we had lots of smoke from the Shasta and Mendocino fires, the temperatures were moderate, so the berries were plump and beautiful, Read More
December 27, 2017 1 2017 Year in Review In the winter of 2016/2017, we removed about 550 aging Merlot vines and replaced them with Cabernet Franc vines, a favorite varietal of Sheldon's. Read More