LOCAL AUTHORITY-NAPA

Fourth-generation vintner Robin Lail has amassed quite an address book. As part of her side business, called Connections, she opens her book for clients to arrange private visits to wineries and gardens usually closed to the pubic; set up dinners so that clients can meet locals who share their interests; and, when clients show up in high season without reservation, to book guest cottages on estates truly not open to the public.