When the team at Cakebread Cellars broke ground on Suscol Vineyard, a wild undeveloped property just south of Napa, a female mountain lion and her cubs kept watch on the process from a nearby rocky ...

In 1973 Jack and Dolores Cakebread were visiting friends in Napa Valley and mentioned they would be interested in buying their land if they ever wished to sell — to their surprise the friends called ...

I have had a long love affair with Cakebread Cellars. In my post-college years waitressing on a New England resort island, Cakebread was one of the first I recognized as “good” wine, worth the ...

Cakebread Cellars was founded in 1973 by Jack and Dolores Cakebread, whose sons, Bruce and Dennis, own the winery today. In its 50-year history, the family-owned winery has earned a reputation for its ...

I’ve been enjoying Cakebread Cellars wines for years, especially its Napa Chardonnay, richly perfumed with golden apple, pear and citrus aromas. But I never dreamed that “Cakebread” is a family name.

Last week Bruce Cakebread, son of Napa Valley’s Cakebread Cellars founders Jack and Delores Cakebread, was in Dallas for a visit and I had an opportunity to sit down with him over lunch at Ocean Prime ...

Jack Cakebread, who with his wife, Dolores, turned a 22-acre cattle ranch in Rutherford, California, into one of Napa Valley’s leading wineries, along the way helping to propel the once-obscure region ...

He was an auto mechanic with a sideline in photography when he and his wife bought a cattle farm in 1972. They turned it into one of America’s leading wineries. By Clay Risen Jack Cakebread, who with ...