By Curt Sandman and Jennifer Barron Jenny and I were educating ourselves about wine. We had begun to appreciate the companionship between good food and great wine, and since we did a fair amount of cooking, we decided it was time to start collecting wine that...
Customers’ Stories
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 details are either lost to age or filed away in my own mental archives), my recollections as a fan, a follower, and...
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 us to come up to the house to taste. My wife and I sat with her (with intermittent visits from Jim) in the living room for quite...
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), friends from NJ, and us. The 6 of us had a great time visiting Hourglass, Joseph Phelps, Malk, Arietta, Shafer, and some others, but the...
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 time tasting on the back porch with the hummingbirds, but also found her stories of Paloma’s start and growth fascinating. We have loved...