Articles about Palisades Canyon
Forbes
June 28, 2024, by Catherine Todd
Ten years. Ten years to get a vine just right, according to the heritage way of growing premium wine grapes.
First, the rootstock goes into the soil. Two years later, the vine is grafted onto the rootstock. Six years of getting advice from four well-known viticulturists, one of them a PhD who is a leader in her field of research, with the most experienced vineyard workers meticulously pruning and shaping these bush vines ....
BLOOMBERG
June 27, 2024, by Elin McCoy
Up in Calistoga, I was wowed by this new 796-acre organic wine estate with panoramic vistas. It’s steeped in 19th century mining history, and the vineyard and 50-year-old head-trained vines were part of a pre-Prohibition “ghost” winery that owners Felicia Woytak and Steven Rasmussen are bringing back to life with the help of star Napa winemaker Graeme MacDonald ....
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Haute Living San Francisco
August 2, 2024, by Fran Miller
Felicia Woytak’s ten-year search for the perfect Napa Valley estate concluded in 2015 when she fell in love with a 796-acre estate at the base of The Palisades cliffs on the eastern edge of Calistoga. A home winemaker who had found inspiration in agritourism during a visit to Italy many years ago, Woytak sought a piece of land where she could farm wine grapes with integrity. She found it in this narrow riparian canyon, surrounded by thousands of acres of rugged, natural splendor. The property featured an historic dry-farmed vineyard, and an 1881 farmhouse standing opposite a ghost winery—Bonded Winery No. 118 ....
Farmworker Foundation
2023 Napa Valley Farmworker Foundation Annual Report
For Felicia Woytak and Steve Rasmussen education
flows both ways. As vineyard owners, they have
been both the students and the educators.
In 2015, after purchasing Palisades Vineyard,
they joined the Napa Valley Grapegrowers and dove into workshops and seminars to
master grape growing. Their enthusiasm for learning naturally extended to the Napa
Valley Farmworker Foundation, where they
became mentors for the Patrick Foley Fields of
Opportunity (FOO) program ....
