The beautiful gardens at the Napa home of Joel and Kathy Tranmer are being enhanced for the Napa Valley Designers Show House 2000 to fulfill the home's potential for entertaining. Parties will naturally spill out of the home to the area around the pool. One addition for the Show House is the construction of a bocce ball court by David and Sandy Brewer of Boccebrew . According to David Brewer, a bocce court is a party. Sandy notes that sipping wine and playing bocce seem to go together.
Bocce is a social game.
And bocce is enjoying a new renaissance in Napa with numerous private and public courts and leagues competing from Napa to St. Helena. Boccebrew has also installed courts at wineries. Bocce is an ancient game, perhaps going back to the early Egyptians. Graphic representations of figures tossing a ball-or polished stone have been recorded early in history, according to one bocce web site. While the game may have changed the goal has been the same - to try and come as close to a fixed target as possible.