Article source: Jean-Charles Boisset 

1881 Napa, Napa Valley’s first wine history museum and tasting salon, is now open. Jean-Charles Boisset, proprietor of Boisset Collection, has created an homage to Napa Valley, with a tasting room that showcases wines from Napa Valley’s distinct sub-appellations, a museum where guests can explore Napa’s rich wine history, an extensive collection of historic wine relics from Europe and the United States and original artifacts from the Early California Wine Trade Archive. 1881 Napa is located in a historic Victorian home built in 1874 next to Oakville Grocery (founded in 1881) in Oakville, California, both of which were purchased by Boisset Collection at the beginning of the year.

Image Courtesy © Lowell Downey

• Proprietor: Jean-Charles Boisset
• Project: Napa Valley’s First Wine History Museum and Tasting Salon
• Location: Oakville, California
• Photography: Lowell Downey, Alexander Rubin

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