Try the Red: Napa Learns to Sell

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Wines lined up for tasting at V. Sattui Winery. More Photos >
By KATRINA HERON
Published: February 16, 2010
NAPA, Calif.

TOM DAVIES was driving last fall down Highway 29, the two-lane blacktop that serves as the Napa Valley’s main drag, when he saw something that literally stopped him in his tracks. “There was a sign on the side of the road that said, ‘Cabernet Grapes for Sale,’ ” he recalled, still incredulous that economic desperation had forced a Napa grower to hawk the region’s hallowed fruit like a load of zucchini. More