Community also matters to this locality of specialised winegrowers and restaurateurs, who live as neighbours in what amounts to a large, extremely valuable agricultural preserve. I spoke to several friends about how, in the wake of the 2020 fires that destroyed more than 30 Napa wineries, the community banded together to adopt more sustainable processes in order to ensure the survival of this beautiful, vulnerable place.
Jack Stuart, the retired manager at the Silverado Winery, remembers a…

