Annual Events
2023 | 32nd Annual Wine Seminar
“Cabernet from Napa Valley’s Mountainsides, East and West”
Saturday, October 28
Mayacamas Vineyards
Transportation via California Wine Tours
Please join us for a remarkable seminar with our six Napa Valley winemaker panelists:
Eastside:
Alex Kongsgaard, Kongsgaard
Atlas Peak
Allison Tauziet, Colgin Cellars
Pritchard Hill
Graham Wehmeier, Diamond Creek,
Diamond Mountain
Westside:
Mike Dunn, Dunn Vineyards,
Howell Mountain
Lisa Togni, Philip Togni Vineyard
Spring Mountain
Braiden Albrecht, Mayacamas Vineyards
Mount Veeder
Moderated by Tegan Passalacqua, Director of Winemaking, Turley Wine Cellars and Sandlands
Panelists are second generation winemakers at their wineries and delighted to be working with Cabernet Sauvignon—a character-filled, age-worthy, completely delicious wine variety ennobling Napa Valley. Each will pour a 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon.
The seminar, most appropriately, is in the mountain fastness of Mayacamas Vineyards in the Winery Library above its Red Cellar. Lunch is on the terrace of the new Hospitality Center where a family-style live fire repast of local seasonal fare prepared al fresco by Chef Kevin O’Connor concludes our program.
For event questions or more information:
Diana H Stockton – editor@napawinelibrary.com
For registration questions and assistance:
Rick Brennan – rick@napawinelibrary.com
Photos: Tim Kennedy
2022 Annual Wine Seminar at Frog’s Leap Winery, Rutherford
REPORT Autumn 2021
In this printed issue
24 Color pages
Letter from the President
Carolyn Martini
Dorothy J Gaiter:
Summiting “Matterhorns”: How Two Men’s Calculated Risks Led to California’s Red Wine Triumph at the 1976 Judgment of Paris Tasting
30th Annual Wine Seminar
“Napa Valley’s Old Vines and the Wines They Give Us”
Moderated by Tegan Passalacqua and panelists
Kelli White, Historian
Mike Hirby, Relic Wine Cellars
Bob Biale, Robert Biale Vineyards
Tegan Passalacqua, Turley Wine Cellars
Morgan Twain-Peterson, Bedrock Wine Company
Rosemary Cakebread, Gallica
Editor’s Letter — Diana H Stockton
Organization and Membership Information
Reception to honor Stephen J. Krebs
Professor Emeritus of Viticulture at Napa Valley College
In Wine Library Wing of Saint Helena Public Library
Our program is in celebration of Dr. Krebs’ career at Napa College and his recent gift of his personal library, the Krebs Collection, to the Napa Valley Wine Library Collection at Saint Helena Public Library.
Books on Wine Evening:
Wine Library Wing of Saint Helena Public Library with
Tor Kenward, TOR Wines owner and author of
Reflections of a Vintner: Stories and Seasonal Wisdom from a Lifetime in Napa Valley
In his Reflections, Tor writes of an ever-developing vinous and culinary education, innumerable friendships begun, and a bird’s eye view of Napa Valley as it grows from less than 50 wineries in the 1970’s to nearly 1,000 today. Tor had spent nearly 30 years at …
Visual Oral History: Winemaking Pioneer Zelma Long
Zelma is one of California’s trailblazing female winemakers! As a student at UC Davis in 1970, Mike Grgich convinced her to put her studies on hold and join him at Robert Mondavi Winery. Her career led to executive positions at …
2022 | 31st Annual Wine Seminar
“A Mentor and his Students: Six Winemakers Share Their Experiences with Warren Winiarski While at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars”
Live and streamed at Frog’s Leap Winery
8815 Conn Creek Road, Rutherford
All are honored to share their mentee experiences with Warren and as mentors in their own careers and each has been invited to pour one wine.
The Lantern Slide Collection
85 hand-tinted glass slides collected by
Frona Eunice Wait, ca. 1880, 35mm slide
copies taken by Gene Dekovic, 1981
February 4, 2022
Frona Eunice Wait (Mrs. Colburn) was an author and slide lecturer. Following the publication of her book Wines & Vines of California, in 1889 she lectured throughout the state on wine and viticulture. Dr. Maynard Amerine first met her in 1935. She later came to UC Davis to present her program. Her collection of historic lantern slides was entrusted to Amerine for safekeeping and he, in turn, donated the slides to the Napa Valley Wine Library in 1981. The collection documents the wineries, winegrowing and winemaking in Napa, Sonoma and Fresno Counties and the Livermore Valley in the 1880’s and includes some of the earliest images known of Inglenook Winery and Greystone Cellars.
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