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Napa Valley's Living Landscape: The first residents of the Napa Valley

KATHLEEN SCAVONE Long before the first winemakers dotted the Napa Valley with buildings and caves constructed by Chinese laborers, the Wappo people thrived in this region. According to ethnographic studies by A. L. Kroeber, there were up to 3,000 Wappo and Wintun Native Americans living in the Napa Valley around 1843, including those residing in the Russian River area near Healdsburg. Another indigenous group that once lived in the valley was the Patwin tribe. The census of 1910 found only 73 Wappo people. Support local news coverage and the people who report it by subscribing to the Napa Valley Register. The Wappo’s settlements lay, for the most part, in the valley, but their territory extended to the mountain regions.

Wine Wednesday: Cook and Drink With Cakebread

Tweet Share I’ve been a fan of Cakebread Cellars wines for a long time. My fandom first started during the final weeks that The Trace was still open in Hillsboro Village when they were closing out their wine list. I discovered Cakebread chardonnay for $30 a bottle, pretty darned close to retail prices, and I thought it was one of the best chards I’d ever tasted. Even though it’s 100 percent aged in oak, I found the sweet wood to be much less of an oak bomb than other California chardonnays, and I personally tore through more than a half-case of bottles during that heady spring of 2008 as the discounts became deeper at the foundering fern bar.