Jax Vineyards

Brother and sister team, Trent and Kimberly Jackson collaborated with their vintner “green thumb” father to found their first label in 1996.  Over time the two identified their unique niche among next generation wine enthusiasts. Outliers from the dominating short list of old school napa wineries, the two saw an opportunity to buck the “en vogue” winemaking style of their day to focus on the unique terroir of their family vineyard.   After all...

Drive north of Tubbs Lane through Calistoga and you will see a smattering of old guard Napa. Continue up the 128, and you will pass a field upon which is the romping grounds of a free range pig farm.  It is the very owner of this farm, a retired firefighter who also drove trucks for native “Calistoga water,” who saved our home in the Tubbs Valley fire. We and they sat at ground zero the very night of its ignition. Both homes stand (all others ...