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Books on Wine Evening
Authors Lucia Albino Gilbert and John C Gilbert,
Professors Emeriti, Santa Clara University
Women Winemakers: Personal Odysseys
Please join us for an informative as well as energizing evening.
Authors Gilbert introduce their book, its inspiration and illuminating subject: the career path of a woman winemaker. Women winemakers in California are discussed in particular, with additional examples world-wide from France, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain.
The work begins in 1965, takes us through the Judgment of Paris and then into six international wine countries. Next come the four pathways the authors have defined which challenge a beginning woman winemaker. 8 Personal Odysseys are included and each is that of a Napa Valley woman winemaker. The third part of the book is devoted to contemporary skills.
Invited to join the authors to discuss her own odyssey are those 8 winemakers: Sandi Belcher (ARNS), Cathy Corison (Corison), Geneviève Janssens (Portfolio), Sally Johnson-Blum (Pride Mountain), Julianne Laks (Cakebread, retired and Consulting), Diana Snowden Seysses (Snowden and Domaine Dujac), Pam Starr (Crocker & Starr), and Celia Welch (Corra and Consulting).
Together the Professors Gilbert have also developed the website Women Winemakers of California and Beyond which is a wonderful reference work kept meticulously updated.
There is no charge but space is limited
and reservations are a must
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Books on Wine Evening
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Professors Emeriti, Santa Clara University
Wine News
Professor Emeritus Harold Olmo played an integral role in establishing UC Davis' international reputation in wine. (Academic Technology Services Photographs Collection, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library)
Renowned Viticulturist’s Papers to Be Digitized
UC Davis Library
February 18, 2020
Forever bound by the fruits of decades-old viticultural research, the late Professor Harold Olmo and a Napa Valley vineyard have a new lasting connection — at the UC Davis Library.
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A map of the areas traversed by Dr Harold P. Olmo in 1948. Credit: BMC Plant Biology
Remembering Harold Olmo: The ‘Indiana Jones of viticulture’
Decanter Magazine
January 16, 2020
A $200,000 donation from the owners of Napa Valley's Larkmead Vineyards will allow UC Davis to preserve and share the work of one its most celebrated professors, who scoured the globe …
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Annual Events
Saturday, May 16
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Stags’ Leap Winery, Napa
2020 | 30th Annual Wine Seminar
“Napa Valley’s Old Vines and the Wines They Give Us”
Our moderator, Tegan Passalacqua, is not only winemaker for Turley Wine Cellars and the magnums of Barney’s Backyard Petite Syrah bottle exclusively for NVWLA. Tegan is also co-owner and winemaker for Sandlands and a founder of the Historic Vineyard Society committed to preserving the old vine vineyards of California.
The seminar includes a panel of practitioners and their old vine wines. Confirmed to date are Bob Biale, Robert Biale Vineyards; David DeSante, DeSante Wines; Mike Hirby, Relic Wines; Christophe Paubert, Stags’ Leap Winery; and Morgan Twain-Peterson, Bedrock Wine Company.
A catered Mediterranean-style al fresco lunch concludes the day.
For event questions or more information:
Diana H Stockton – editor@napawinelibrary.com
For registration questions and assistance:
Rick Brennan – rick@napawinelibrary.com
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Registration for the 30th Annual Wine Seminar
Check-in at Stags’ Leap Winery begins
May 16 at 9:30 am.
The seminar starts promptly at 10:00 am
Lunch al fresco concludes the day
Price includes lunch and all the wines poured
Wine Seminar at CIA Copia, Napa in 2019 | Photography: Yu Ding
Sunday, August 16
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
The Grove at Silverado Resort & Spa, Napa
2020 | 58th Annual Grand Tasting
“Exploring the Napa Valley—
Varieties that Define and Refine”
A Vintners’ Choice
Our 58th Annual Grand Wine Tasting provides 60 to 65 prestigious wineries will pour select wines from case productions of all sizes—less than 50 or more than 3,000—but most are from 1,000 cases or less.
The tasting is outdoors in The Grove at Silverado —a beautiful setting for a truly delicious as well as educational afternoon. Expect to taste very special wines. Explore varieties, vintages, or wineries new to you and kindle new friendships within our Napa Valley Wine Community.
Plan on joining us for this exceptional tasting.
An updated list of participating wineries and their wines will start posting in June.
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Admission to the Grand Tasting
Includes a year’s membership in NVWLA
Annual Tasting at Silverado Resort & Spa, Napa in 2019 | Photography: Yu Ding
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