Welcome to the D’Aquila-Phillips Wine Cellar! Our site is dedicated to the life of the individual most responsible for introducing me to the world of wine, Mary Kay D’Aquila. I’m Scott Phillips the host of this site, which we call DP Wine Cellar for short. It’s an e-extension of our physical wine cellars. One north and […]
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DP Wine Cellar’s New Year’s Wine Resolutions
New Year’s is resolution time, which got me thinking I’d better make a couple New Year’s resolutions for our wine cellar in. addition to my personal resolutions. There are those in our family who believe the sanest wine resolution for me would simply be “Don’t buy anymore wine.” However, even as they say this they […]
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Visiting Napa Valley: CONSTANT Diamond Mountain Vineyards
I couldn’t stop humming The Fifth Dimension’s ‘60s song “Up, Up and Away” as I began my assent to the peak of the Diamond Mountain AVA for my appointment at CONSTANT Diamond Mountain Vineyards. “Boutique winery” is way overused these days so I will say this: CONSTANT Diamond Mountain is a somewhat lesser known, very […]
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Redmon Wines Ranch Visit and Wines Review
Visit Number One! My recent visit to Napa Valley began, after a quick drive in from the Sacramento International Airport, at Dowdell Lane in St. Helena, with Lisa Redmon at her Redmon Ranch. Note: This winery is small, private, and not open to the public so you must make an appointment in order to visit. […]
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How DP Wine Cellar Does Napa Valley
How do you do Napa? What are your top suggestions for a trip to Napa? What’s best in the Valley? These questions are fresh in my mind as I just returned to the lake from a lovely, but all too short, five days in Napa. They are the most frequently asked questions I get asked, […]
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Join DP Wine Cellar as we go Up, Down, and Across Napa Valley
I can never prep for a trip without singing a bit of “Leaving on a Jet Plane”. If you’re my age you know it was made popular by the wonderful trio of Peter, Paul, and Mary (it hit #1 in 1969), but did you know it was written by John “Country Roads” Denver and originally […]
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In wine and the world: To Each His Each
The northern Minnesota, Iron Range town where my wife grew up was a true melting pot of immigrants from all over, salted heavily with Swedes, Finns, Norwegians, Croats, Irish, and Italians. This made for some wonderful sayings being handed down within families, around the town, and from family to family! One of those individuals was […]