Napa Valley & Sonoma County: A Wine Legacy

- Features stunning full-color photographs of vineyards and wineries throughout the Napa Valley and Sonoma County regions

- Includes more than twenty interviews, including with the Mondavi Family, Cakebread, Lail and many others, often with very personal favorite recipe/wine pairing details

- Provides rare insight into the legacy families, the wine, and winery lifestyle and operations

- Celebrates sustainability and terroir

This book is a rich visual story of Napa and Sonoma, featuring interviews with top producers from legacy wine families. Liza Gershman takes the reader on a beautiful journey of understanding each winemaker’s legacy, the history of the vineyard, how the vintners have survived decades of challenges, their successes, and how they see the future of their winery and its legacy. What sets this story apart is also a dedication to featuring beautiful imagery of the terroir, seasons, and workers who help to make the industry exist and who have done so for many years. Every glass of wine takes artistry, collaboration, and many hands. This book celebrates the process from start to finish and commends the legacy families for their dedication to preserving history, the land, and community through sustainable practices.

Best-selling author and Winner of the Gourmand Cookbook Award (2018), Liza Gershman has published 17 books, including County Fair, Nantucket, and Cuban Flavor, which was touted on CBS, National Geographic, Travel & Leisure, NPR, and more. Liza was honored to speak for ’Talks At Google, ’ and on the prestigious campuses of Twitter, Oracle, and Disney. Clients: Williams-Sonoma, Goldman Sachs, Hyatt Hotels, Restoration Hardware, Getty Images, AirBnB, Visa. In 2010, Liza was Governor Jerry Brown’s campaign photographer, and in 2014 was a photographer for America’s Cup. She’s photographed in more than 55 countries and 47 states. She specializes in creative direction, art direction, styling, writing, and photography.