This collection's featured wines all come from California. About half come from wineries in California’s esteemed Napa and Sonoma counties. Others come from the award-winning boutique wineries of the Central Coast region—like those found in the Santa Ynez Valley or the Santa Maria Valley of Santa Barbara County.

We also seek out great wines from not-so-well-known areas of California—like the Sacramento River Delta, the Arroyo Seco District of northern Monterey County—even a small vineyard we found just west of Yosemite National Park.