Napa aNd soNoma

rival teams with

the same colors—

red and white

i n baseball, it’s the Red Sox and the Yankees. Basketball has the Celtics and the Lakers. And the world of wine has its great rivalry, too: the one between napa valley and

Sonoma valley in California. Situated next to each other and separated by the Mayacamas mountain range, these two valleys both produce some of the

finest wine that will ever pass your lips. And for most of the past century, both languished in relative obscurity. So what, you may wonder, fuels the battle of the valleys?

Well, for one thing, napa gets more press. in the 60s, wine pioneer Robert Mondavi tirelessly promoted napa valley wines by inviting travel writers to