Upcoming Events
60th Annual Grand Tasting
“Current Releases and Library Wines”
Sunday, April 28, 2024
In the Grove at Silverado Resort and Spa, Napa
3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Join the Celebration!
More than 100 wines made exclusively by Napa Valley wineries and poured by their winemakers are sure to please and provoke your palate.
Come savor this portrait in wine with our valley’s exceptional practitioners.
Catered by La Saison, Napa
Save the Date
3rd Annual Books on Wine Sale
at the Saint Helena Public Library
Friday, December 8, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 9, noon to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, Closed
Monday, December 11, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Great deals on new, gently used, signed and collectable wine-related books all for sale at the Saint Helena Public Library. Proceeds benefit the Napa Valley Wine Library Collection
Book donations are most welcome and may be dropped off until December 1 for sorting
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 Art of Eating: the Life of MFK Fisher” a documentary film by Gregory Bezat
Frog’s Leap Winery
Vineyard House, Rutherford
A founder of Napa Valley Wine Library, Mary Frances, as MFK was known, was an active faculty member of the Wine Library’s wine education classes and helped establish the Napa Valley Library Collection of wine-related materials at St. Helena Public Library.
59th Annual Grand Tasting
— A Vintner’s Choice —
At The Grove at Silverado Resort & Spa, Napa
Our Annual Grand Tasting brings together 57 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.
Reception with Karen MacNeil
At The Reserve Napa Valley
On a mild winter’s evening, in celebration of the third edition of The Wine Bible’s publication, author Karen MacNeil was in conversation with Kelli White, Director of Education for the Wine Center at Meadowood. In the Hospitality Barn of The Reserve Napa Valley, a firelit reception with Champagne and The Reserve wines preceded Karen’s storytelling …
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 …
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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The Napa Valley Wine Library Collection
is housed at the St. Helena Public Library.
For information please be in touch with Cecila Raffo,
Circulation Supervisor and Volunteer Coordinator,
Saint Helena Public Library
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“The purpose of the Napa Valley Wine Library Association is to collect and share the stories of the wines and vines of Napa Valley and in Wine Country Around the World.”
We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and all proceeds benefit the NVWL Collection and our public programs