Oltre Magazine, March 2023
VALLEY OF THE GIANTS: NAPA AND SONOMA AMONG WORLD’S TOP WINE REGIONS| TRAVEL
Layne Randolph
While living in Italy for nearly a decade, Layne was legal counsel for Fendi in Rome and, as a side gig, a freelance travel writer. After relocating to Sonoma County, California, she dusted off her journalism degree to craft stories full-time as Roma to Sonoma. She's led readers into the cellars and vineyards of hundreds of wine brands as a copywriter and contributor to publications such as Wine Enthusiast, AFAR, Napa Valley Life, Haute Living San Francisco, and Decanter. Layne is a certified Napa Valley Wine Specialist pursuing WSET's Level 3 certification, and in 2022 and 2023, the Napa Valley Vintners chose her to be a Fellow with the Wine Writers' Symposium. She focuses her prose on travel, wine, and wellness and dreams of places to add to the five continents and 51 countries she has explored.Related Posts
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Over 400 years ago, Pierre Pérignon joined the Benedictine Abbey of Hautvillers in the Champagne region of France. As a monk, he was given the honorary title of Dom and the prestigious position of cellar master. As the story goes, when Dom Pérignon created bubbly wine, he shouted, “Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!” The rest is history. Dom Pérignon was instrumental in inventing what is now known as Champagne, and he has a posthumous, eponymous Champagne, produced by Moët & Chandon, to prove it.
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NAPA VALLEY’S WINE TRAIN: THE GILDED AGE OF TRAVEL | TRAVEL
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Riding the Wine Train is a combination of nostalgia and adventure; it is easy to imagine the amazement of the first travelers as they were wined and dined and entertained by the experience and views as they rode the rails. Today, the ancient train supplies modern conveniences like air conditioning, but the feeling of train travel during the time of the pioneers is still there. The difference lies in the miles of vineyards in every direction and mammoth world-class wineries lining the road as the train chug-chugs along Napa’s Vine Trail, whistle blowing as it passes crossroads along the way.
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In Napa Valley, access and advantage usually belong to legacy families and global corporations. Vineyard land is scarce, and prices have climbed accordingly. So, when Memento Mori’s three founders with no wine background, a winemaker who grew up making homemade wine in Oklahoma, and a once-private art estate in Calistoga, converged—and with their winemaker going on to earn three separate 100-point wines in a single vintage—it felt less like a business plan and more like a case study in daring and manifestation.
