Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom Hyland writes about wine (and sometimes) food from Europe and US. Fort Ross (Jenner, Sonoma Coast) - Fort Ross Winery is ...

The Fort Ross-Seaview American Viticultural Area (AVA), located in the coastal hills of Sonoma County, is a distinct segment of the broader Sonoma Coast AVA. Its rich heritage and unique climate give ...

About 90 miles north of San Francisco lies Fort Ross, a site chosen to be the Russian empire's only colony in what would later become the contiguous United States. Pictured is a Russian Orthodox ...

I had to get to the bottom of this Russia thing. What better way to track their dealings than to go to Fort Ross on the Sonoma Coast, site of the southernmost Russian settlement in the U.S.? The ...

SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine is highlighting a part of the Bay Area once settled and occupied by Russian colonists in the 1880s. Fort Ross on the Sonoma Coast is now ...

Many Americans look west for stellar wines, but exactly how west is west in California winemaking? How close-to-the-edge and back-to-the-land can it get? The folks in Fort Ross-Seaview AVA know a few ...

When a Russian lawmaker suggested his country should demand the return of Fort Ross along the Sonoma County shoreline — as well as all of Alaska — he was as ignorant about history as he was bombastic, ...

Before the Gold Rush changed California forever, and before California became a state, Fort Ross was a windswept outpost where Russian settlers and fur traders built a rugged community along the ...