Amicis Winery Tours

07/01/2024

This is insane. Be safe out there. And charge your devices in case to rolling blackouts. High fire 🔥 danger too. Heatwave

03/24/2024

Celebrating 19 years on the West Coast. Can hardly believe we are starting on year 20! Do we get a "you are a native Californian" card then? LOL also Miss you guys - come visit 😎 but bring sunglasses! Our sun is BRIGHT!

02/29/2024

Wondering what comes after email dies? Half my emails are SPAM & the other half go into the SPAM filter! (or disappear)

11/27/2023

The Annual North Coast Wine Industry Expo (WIN Expo) is the largest trade show and conference focused exclusively on Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake counties, and is the 2nd largest wine industry show in North America. Established in 2012 by Wine Industry Network, WIN Expo is considered a must-atte...

08/22/2023

September is an interesting Month Astrologically as the final outer planet goes Retrograde.

September is unique because no Planets change Sign. Now directions, that’s another issue! Mercury spends the first half of the month Retrograde in Virgo turni...

07/29/2023

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06/26/2023

The 2023 July Video Astrology Forecast From Planetary Calendar is ready. https://youtu.be/4DWEDyJiX0M

05/26/2023

We just posted the Planetary Calendar Astrology Forecast for June 2023, just as we received a shipment of the 2024 calendars which are going sale June First. If you are one of those people who like to plan ahead, get yours soon at Planetary Calendar online.

June gets off to a pretty good start with the first two Fridays receiving a White Circle and the intervening days with only two oppositions: the Full Moon on...

03/10/2023

In this second installment Mira's winemaker Gustavo Gonzalez talks his wine making team and his vineyards, offering some fascinating insights from someone wi...

03/02/2023

I really want to visit this restaurant in Mendoza.

Laura Catena of Catena Zapata is known as a wine pioneer, from her work on growing grapes at altitude to her scientific studies of terroir. The Managing Director and fourth generation member of Catena...

02/28/2023

Jess Lander is a Napa based writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. We really enjoy her articles and we interviewed her for an episode of Wine Country in Shorts. She offers some wonderful insights about the world of a wine and travel writer. Hers is a very different experience from ours as tour book writers.

In her first year at the Chronicle Jess Lander has turned in a remarkable number of fascinating articles about the North Bay wine scene. Coming from a backgr...

02/25/2023

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As quiet as February was astrologically, March is the complete opposite with multiple planets changing Sign, including Saturn, Pluto and Mars. That's the rea...

02/22/2023

02/17/2023

Did anyone else in the Napa Valley see this procession little work trains on the wine train tracks during the pandemic? Little Trains in Yountville https://youtube.com/watch?v=CTF9IHhYqBc&feature=share via

During the pandemic Lahni and I would rides up the Napa Valley, because even so much was shut, because the wineries are food production, they stayed open. We...

02/14/2023

If you are planning your year's strategy this explains why the first five months of the year are filled with energy, and the rest of the year is about consolidation. BTW, watch out for March!

Ralph & Lahni have been doing remarkably accurate annual forecasts based on the Chinese New Year chart for over 25 years, and this year they are doing a diff...

02/07/2023

Part 2 of this fascinating interview with Gustavo Gonzalez, the winemaker at Mira Winery with Ralph de Amicis as your host.

In this second installment Mira's winemaker Gustavo Gonzalez talks his wine making team and his vineyards, offering some fascinating insights from someone wi...

02/07/2023

This is part two of my interview with the winemaker at the Mira Winery in Yountville.

In this second installment Mira's winemaker Gustavo Gonzalez talks his wine making team and his vineyards, offering some fascinating insights from someone wi...

01/31/2023

In a bit of inspiration we came up with a new workshop idea called Wine Tasting with the Stars, that we turned into a new segment for our TV show Wine Country in Shorts. We were hosted by the Outland Tasting room in downtown Napa and tasted from Poe and Farella and explored the entertaining connection between oenology and astrology. Then we found celebrity charts that fit those wines well. It was the most fun tasting I've done in years! https://youtu.be/c3BaHzG495Q

01/27/2023

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Ralph & Lahni have been doing remarkably accurate annual forecasts based on the Chinese New Year chart for over 25 years, and this year they are doing a diff...

01/24/2023

Combining our love wine culture and astrology in this first segment from Wine Tasting with the Stars at the Outland tasting room in downtown Napa.

This segment was shot at the Outland tasting room where Ralph ana;yzed the wines from Poe and Farella in terms of astrology and associated them with the char...

01/06/2023

Downtown Yountville has became a center for tasting rooms, so for that Jan 2023 episode of Wine Country in Shorts we took a walk around town an added our pithy commentary. Watch for the subtitles!

At one time there were two tasting rooms in Napa Valley's food capital, but today there numerous remarkable spots to check out wines. This short at looks at ...

01/05/2023

Barbara Walters was a major mentor to young women journalists and here astrology chart highlights that mission.

Her passing gave the press an opportunity to celebrate the incredible accomplishments of this Libra born at Sunrise with a Gemini Moon. When Ralph & Lahni lo...

12/30/2022

For 2023 we have moved to Monthly Astrology forecasts for Planetary Calendar and it is taking some effort to doing our tag team talk again, but it is coming back.

This is the first episode of the year and our return to monthly forecasts. January is a very exciting month, no the least of which is because the Chinese New...

12/30/2022

Apologies. Second version of the Mira winery interview with better subtitles.

This is the second shot of uploading these files. Apologies. I am still getting to use to Adobe Premiers transcription and caption component. This is a great...

11/10/2021

Wine Country is beautiful in every season! Found these at the Silverado Resort on the way in to pick up tour guests. And as you can tell, the weather is still pretty perfect!

08/22/2021

A perfect bunch at Honig Vineyard & Winery today. The grapes in the valley look stunning this year!

08/12/2021

Wine Tours in Napa Valley have changed!
https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/need-a-ride-napa-valley-wine-country-tour-guides-face-changes-to-bookings-tasting-prices/article_6dd0bc57-4a48-5738-a8ff-518c23144d95.html

A perfect storm of ride-share services, a global pandemic, wildfire risk and shifts in clientele have resulted in rising prices and limited availability for tastings, thus complicating life for tour

06/19/2021

So important to have a great AC for our wine 🍷 tour guests! Wouldn't want them to melt! Lol 😂