The votes are in: These five sommeliers are setting the bar high when it comes to their wine lists, service and welcoming attitude.

Sharing a mountain range with Napa Valley, the Alexander Valley’s hills produce a completely different style of cabernet, one that has little to do with the plantings on the Russian River floodplain. Joshua Greene reports on changes in farming and winemaking that are leading growers to turn out finely ripened, silken cabernet.

Patrick J. Comiskey had always been challenged by thin, reedy carmenère, until a series of wines from Walla Walla in Washington State began to turn his head.