Congrats To Jim Barbour: Napa's Agriculturalist of the Year

News from the Napa County Farm Bureau:

Napa Valley viticulture stalwart Jim Barbour will be honored as Napa County Farm Bureau’s Outstanding Agriculturalist of the Year at the 102nd Annual Dinner Meeting of the Napa Farm Bureau on July 25th, at Beaulieu Vineyard’s Rutherford House.

Farm Bureau recognizes Barbour for more than 40 years of leadership, dedication, and service to Napa County agriculture and the community.

Jim Barbour was raised on his family’s ranch in Rutherford where he learned the life of farming, a passion for land, and the understanding that hard work breeds success. During his four-decades long career, Jim Barbour has planted and managed some of Napa Valley’s most regarded vineyards, collaborated with its leading winemakers and played a critical role in the creation of some of its finest wines. He has made a lifelong commitment to his craft and to Napa Valley and its vineyards.

Jim is the proprietor of Barbour Vineyards Management & Development and Barbour Wines and has been an active Napa County Farm Bureau member for 25 years. He served as Co-Chairperson of Farm Bureau’s “Shaken, not deterred” fundraising campaign and assisted in efforts to rebuild the Bureau’s historic office building.

As a grapegrower and vintner, Jim understands the intrinsic value that wine brings to fundraising and is a long-time donor to numerous causes including Family House of San Francisco, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, the Alzheimer’s Association, the American Heart Association, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Saint Helena Hospital, and the local schools of the Napa Valley.

When not farming grapes, making wine or advocating for community foundations and non-profits, you might find Jim in the running waters of a stream filled with Rainbow and Brown trout.

With his years of dedication and commitment to promote and protect Napa’s family farms and ranches, Jim has earned the respect and admiration of agricultural leaders and the Napa ag community.

About the Napa County Farm Bureau

NCFB is a voluntary, non-profit, non-governmental organization whose basic goal is to ensure the proper political, economic, environmental and social climate for the continuation of agriculture. Napa County’s strong agricultural heritage has contributed significantly to our economy. Today, NCFB strives to preserve land for agriculture, and creates policies and programs that allow us to maintain a high quality of life in Napa County.