Meet the Hottest New Names in Napa Wine
Bloomberg’s wine critic sniffs out eight ambitious upstarts, plus their bottles to buy.
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Scouting the latest must-taste wine projects is a serious Napa Valley sport, and I play the game every time I visit.
Earlier this year a hot tip took me up a steep, twisting, rain-slicked road to the top of Diamond Mountain, in the northern part of the valley. I bumped over the rocky soil of a just-planted vineyard in an open ATV with Jasud Estate’s passionate, bearded owner, Ketan Mody, who didn’t seem to notice we were getting soaked. Later, when we tasted his first wines in the tiny cabin where he lives, I decided, despite being cold and wet, that this was one of the valley’s most fascinating new ventures.