Upcoming Events
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2024 | 59th Annual Wine Seminar
Inglenook
Saturday, November 2, 2024
9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m....
Seminar moderated by Tegan
followed by chef-prepared buffet lunch
2025 | 61st Annual Grand Tasting
Louis M Martini Winery
Sunday, May 18, 2025
3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tasting and Silent Auction
Books on Wine Evening with Richard Mendelson
Common Ground: Charting the Future of the Napa Valley
with author Richard Mendelson and Kelli White,
Director of Education for the Wine Center at Meadowood
Richard, long-time Advisory Board member and local resident since 1986, shares with Kelli his sense of place and challenges he sees ahead for a commitment to excellence in farming …
Screening
Visual Oral History: Silver Oak
Screening of our Visual Oral History video in which Jeff Davis interviews David Duncan, CEO, Silver Oak.
A reception at the winery with Silver Oak wines and appetizers is followed by the screening. Q&A’s with David and Jeff conclude our program.
60th Annual Grand Tasting | 2024
— Current Releases and Library Wines —
At The Grove at Silverado Resort & Spa, Napa
Our Annual Grand Tasting brings together 60 prestigious Napa Valley wineries from 16 appellations. Meet owners and winemakers (often one in the same) as they pour their wines and celebrate varieties from case productions of less than 50 to more than 2,000.
Books on Wine Evening:
Wine Library Wing of Saint Helena Public Library with
Frances Dinkelspiel, author of Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards
Distinguished journalist and author Frances Dinkelspiel discusses wine fraud and greed as she brings us up to date on Mark Anderson, her miscreant subject …
Books on Wine Evening:
Wine Library Wing of Saint Helena Public Library with
Randy Caparoso, author of LODI!: The Definitive Guide and History of America’s Largest Winegrowing Region
Both a photographer and journalist, Randy has been chronicling the vinous action of the Lodi AVA and the 7 AVA’s within it since 2010 for the Lodi Winegrape Commission. (These AVA’s date from 2005.) Randy’s subject is germane to Napa Valley …
2023 | 32nd Annual
Wine Seminar
“Cabernet from Napa Valley’s Mountainsides, East and West”
At Mayacamas Vineyards
On a wonderfully clear and bright fall Saturday in the matchless setting of the Winery Library and Hospitality Center of Mayacamas Vineyards & Winery, our panel of six winemakers moderated by Tegan Passalacqua presented a memorable history and tasting of their Cabernet sestet.
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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