When most people think of the Napa Valley today, they may think of a wine-oriented “Tomorrowland” of sorts, filled with high-tech wineries that took millions of dollars to build. Cakebread Cellars is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mike Jaeger will become new president and CEO of Cakebread Cellars in the Napa Valley as of Oct. 1. The current top executive, Bruce Cakebread, will remain on the its board of directors, and his ...

(FORTUNE Small Business) – Ah, the legendary romance of winemaking. Apple-cheeked peasant girls treading grapes under a harvest moon. Intimate tastings. And, of course, multispectral imaging and ...

Cakebread Cellars has just upped the ante in Napa’s sustainability game. The winery’s newly unveiled visitor’s center in the Rutherford AVA is not only architecturally beautiful, it’s also a boon for ...

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 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.

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 ...