Sentence examples for napa from inspiring English sources

Take the Sierra Railroad – created in 1897 to connect the Central Valley to the Gold Country – which crosses a section of the Sierra Nevada foothills, and the Napa Valley Wine Train, a restored 1915 Pullman train car, through the region's beautiful wine country.

They give the lie to a view whispered by malicious tongues north of the border that the only good Mexico has ever done for wine is to send grape pickers to Napa Valley.

Ten years ago, it started a scheme to collect 300 tons (272 metric tonnes) of food scraps a day from houses and restaurants, convert these into fertiliser and sell the result to Napa Valley vineyards and to organic farms.To help it to achieve its goal of no new landfill waste by 2020, the city commissioned a study of where its garbage was coming from and going to.

(The firm's use of the Napa name on its labels is, as a result, currently the subject of a lawsuit).

An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck the Napa region of California, injuring 170 people and damaging buildings, including historical landmarks, in the wine-growing area.

Already there are signs that the British are tiring of expensive Ibiza and are now colonising the resort of Ayia Napa on Cyprus, the new "clubbing capital" of Europe.

And what have the People's Republic of Berkeley, the Vietnamese outpost of Westminster or the Napa Valley wine country in common with their neighbours?

But the main reason why Californians should keep the Napa Valley Brut Rosé on ice is because their state is in a worse pickle than they realise.In this section Is California back?

Assuming, very optimistically, that the cops are finding every other plant, it is worth even more than the state's famous wine industry.The illicit crop is grown with a technical sophistication that Napa Valley's Robert Mondavi might envy.

California's governor, Jerry Brown, has declared a state of emergency in the southern part of Napa County, which is home to numerous vineyards as well as other businesses.Given the epicentre of the quake was in the north of the Bay Area, Silicon Valley much further to the south did not suffer any damage.

Vallejo, city, Solano county, western California, U.S. It lies along San Pablo Bay at the mouth of the Napa River, just north of Berkeley and Oakland.