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From Vinography.com
April 2007, by Alder Yarrow

" To say there are "undiscovered" areas of Napa Valley may be overstating the case a bit, but there are certainly a few areas of California's most famous wine valley that most wine lovers have never heard of, let alone visited, no matter how many times they've been to Napa.

The small, shallow valley of Coombsville is one such place. Literally off the beaten path, this area of Napa Valley that lies east of the city of Napa cannot be found by traversing Highway 29 or the Silverado Trail, the two main arteries of Napa. Instead one must strike out east before the valley is even reached. Traveling through the quickly suburban streets east of Napa, the inquisitive will come upon the innocuously named "Third Avenue." A right hand turn at this point will shortly lead to one of my favorite "secret" quiet spots in all of Napa wine country, and not coincidentally to one of my favorite secret wine producers, Farella Vineyards.

As I composed this post in my head over the last couple of days, I've been struggling to figure out the best way to describe Tom Farella. The best thing I can come up with is Renaissance Man. He seems to successfully embody all the romantic notions that we have about the most traditional of small winemakers while remaining very firmly planted in the present of the 21st century. Talking to him about wine (which isn't hard -- the guy loves to talk) invariably involves a journey through philosophy, botany, geology, and the wide history of the wine world. It's impossible not to see that this is a guy who thinks and feels deeply about what he's doing as a winemaker, and someone who is most comfortable when he's out among the vineyards of his small farm, checking on his vines and plucking fresh chanterelles from the roots of his oak trees after the winter rains."

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