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We're a little late out the gate for this year's Napa Valley Mustard Festival, but if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, get on up to Napa today for the gourmet connoisseur's delight for food, wine, beer, olive oils and mustard, The Marketplace, or next week's "Taste of Yountville" on Saturday March 24. Yountville, the birthplace of Napa Valley wines, is named George Calvert Yount, who planted the Valley's first vineyard in 1838. With more than a dozen wineries on its 9000 acres, Yountville is best known for Cabs, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay.Today Yountville also is home to some of the Valley's most famous restaurants among its more than a dozen eateries, including The French Laundry, Hurley's Restaurant & Bar, Etoile (the new restaurant at Domaine Chandon) and Redd Restaurant. And the Napa Valley Wine Train passes through here, too.
It has been a glorious spring -- and the vast fields of the Valley are blanketed in bright gold.
