Are you getting ready to travel to the Napa Valley? Here are four books on the Napa Valley that we think you might enjoy. Two are non-fiction books that give an excellent account of the history of Napa Valley, and the other two are light mysteries that take place in the Napa Valley. Choose one and enjoy reading poolside at your hotel or in the library room of your comfortable B&B. <\/p>\n
Napa: The Story of an American Eden<\/i> by James Conaway<\/strong> The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty<\/i> by Julia Flynn Siler<\/strong> Sharp Shooter<\/i> and Death by the Glass<\/i> by Nadia Gordon<\/strong> Are you getting ready to travel to the Napa Valley? Here are four books on the Napa Valley that we think you might enjoy. Two are non-fiction books that give an excellent account of the history of Napa Valley, and the other two are light mysteries that take place in the Napa Valley. Choose one … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1885],"authors":[{"term_id":1885,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"joe","display_name":"Joe Becerra","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Joe-Becerra.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Joe-Becerra.jpg"},"first_name":"Joe","last_name":"Becerra","user_url":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com","description":"Joe Becerra has been traveling to wine country and enjoying wine since 1965. He is a retired educator, and now have the time the opportunity to share his wine travel experiences through this Website."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winecountrygetaways.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn our opinion this is the best account of all the pioneering and principle wine owners, winemakers, landowners, and growers in the early days of the Napa Valley. Conaway does have a sequel but his first book is the place to start. It is extremely interesting and enlightening.<\/p>\n
\nWe have had two previous blog posts on this book and the author Julia Flynn Siler. It is by far the most complete account of Robert Mondavi and his wine business and family. What a great idea to be reading the book while visiting the Robert Mondavi Winery, now owned by wine conglomerate Constellation Brands.<\/p>\n
\nThese are two light reading mystery books and perhaps both a little far fetched, but both a fun read. The central character is Sunny McCloskey who is the chef and owner of Wildside Caf\u00c3\u00a9. In both books Sunny becomes the sleuth attempting to solve a murder, much to the chagrin of the local police. The fun part about the book is the Napa Valley angle where good wine and food are much the focal point of the lives of all the characters. If you know Napa well, you’ll start thinking about who the characters and places in the books could be in real life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"