Inglenook

The team: Francis Ford Coppola took the plunge into wine in 1975, when he went looking for a summer home in Napa and ended up purchasing the Niebaum estate renamed Rubicon, and now back to being called Inglenook in Rutherford.

SFGate: Top News Stories Carey Sweet 2011

The team: Francis Ford Coppola took the plunge into wine in 1975, when he went looking for a summer home in Napa and ended up purchasing the Niebaum estate renamed Rubicon, and now back to being called Inglenook in Rutherford.

SFGate: Top News Stories Carey Sweet 2011

He had not, although "the movie guy" aka Francis Ford Coppola asked Mr. Graves for some sketches shortly after he'd purchased the old Inglenook property, now known as Rubicon.

Michael Graves Lettie Teague 2011

They were drawn to Inglenook's location and environmental standards.

Cozy pocket neighborhoods have sprawl on the move 2011

The 1969 BV Georges de Latour Cabernet Sauvignon and the 1962 Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon are both elegant, rich wines made in the Bordeaux-style, which was the direction of many Napa Valley winemakers at that time, he said.

What They're Drinking at Davos Frances Dinkelspiel 2012

Mr. Beckstoffer, a 71-year-old native Virginian with a Southern drawl, got his start in the wine business as a business analyst at the spirits company Heublein in the 1960s, helping the company to negotiate the purchase of famed wineries like Inglenook and Beaulieu.

The Most Powerful Grower in Napa Lettie Teague 2011

Now, when we travel with our two daughters, I wish I didn't still covet the chilled bottles of Inglenook on flight attendants' carts and that I didn't hear the voice of any maw-ti-fied BBC narrator.

The One Who Derailed Me Adam Langer 2011

Land Development & Building Co. is putting Inglenook on 27 acres surrounded by existing development.

Cozy pocket neighborhoods have sprawl on the move 2011

The flight was smooth and I probably looked calm, but the overpriced Inglenook I was glugging proved powerless to slow my racing pulse.

The One Who Derailed Me Adam Langer 2011

Three years ago, partly inspired by Chapin's cottage industry, Land decided to build the Inglenook Neighborhood in Carmel, a suburb of Indianapolis.

Cozy pocket neighborhoods have sprawl on the move 2011