Last week Bruce Cakebread, son of Napa Valley’s Cakebread Cellars founders Jack and Delores Cakebread, was in Dallas for a visit and I had an opportunity to sit down with him over lunch at Ocean Prime ...

Sitting on a deck at the Cakebread Dancing Bear Ranch atop Howell Mountain, Bruce Cakebread summed up his experience as a second-generation member of the winemaking family: “We were lucky.” He was ...

I’ve visited a lot of tasting rooms. And if I’m perfectly honest, they’re mostly pretty boring. You stand at a bar, cast your eyes over the list of offerings, and often with very little context or ...

I’ve been enjoying Cakebread Cellars wines for years, especially its Napa Chardonnay, richly perfumed with golden apple, pear and citrus aromas. But I never dreamed that “Cakebread” is a family name.

ST. HELENA — Napa Valley Vintners elected Bruce Cakebread of Cakebread Cellars as president of the trade association’s board of directors in 2010. Mr. Cakebread, president and chief operating officer ...

It's been raining for days and the crop you're a week away from harvesting is about to mold. If you don't dry it quickly, you will lose the crop. What do you do? If you're Bruce Cakebread, you call in ...

While vintners in Napa Valley have been growing grapes and making wine for century and a half, the last 10 years have seen an incredible amount of change and growth. The year 2000 marked the beginning ...

When Jack and Dolores Cakebread starting making wine in 1973 they never could have imagined their humble efforts would evolve into a critically-acclaimed sustainable winery with a global fan base.

Few wineries have weathered the years as well as Cakebread. When founders Jack and Dolores Cakebread released their first vintage in 1973 - a small batch of Chardonnay - the valley was hardly the ...