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events throughout the year.
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Upcoming Events

 

Books on Wine


Thursday, March 21, 2024

Reception: 5:30 p.m.
Program: 6:00 p.m.
in the Napa Valley Wine Library Wing
Saint Helena Public Library

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Distinguished journalist and author Frances Dinkelspiel discusses wine fraud and greed as she brings us up to date on Mark Anderson, her miscreant subject of Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California. Frances's research was done in part with the Napa Valley Wine Library Collection.

As Chris Howell of Cain Vineyard and Winery has put it, “Wine and fraud have been together since the beginning.” Convicted arsonist Anderson died last March after nearly $250M in inventory had gone up in flames in his wine storage facility on Mare Island. Collectors, wine shops and wineries lost entire vintages and libraries in the safekeeping of Anderson, including wine from Frances’s own family cherished for over a century. Please join us for a stirring presentation of a dark, tantalizing dimension of the business of making wine.

With wines from three wineries featured in Frances’s book: Long Meadow Ranch, Saintsbury and Viader; and a book signing with the author after her talk.

There is no charge for this program,
but seating is limited

Photo Credit: Kelly Sullivan

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.

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


Wineries and Their Wines
60th Annual Grand Tasting | 2024

To Date

Alpha Omega Winery
| aowinery.com
Matt Brain, winemaker
2020 Rutherford 1155 Estate Sauvignon Blanc – 1800 cases
2020 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon – 1900 cases

ARNS | arnswinery.com
Sandi Belcher, winemaker
2020 Sonoma Coast Searby Vineyards Chardonnay – 100 cases
2016 Napa Valley Estate Grown Old Vines Eloise’s Block
Cabernet Sauvignon – 300 cases

Arrow & Branch | arrowandbranch.com
Jennifer Williams, winemaker
2019 Napa Valley “Right Bank Blend” – 268 cases

*Castlevale | castlevalewines.com
Angelina Mondavi, winemaker
2019 Chiles Valley “Defender” Proprietary Red Blend” – 117 cases

Coquerel Family Estate Wines | coquerelwines.com
Christine Barbe, winemaker
2022 Calistoga Walnut Wash Vineyard Estate
Le Petit Sauvignon Blanc – 1200 cases
2021 Calistoga Walnut Wash Estate Petite Sirah – 100 cases
2016 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon – 420 cases

Cornerstone Cellars | cornerstonecellars.com
Kari Auringer, winemaker
2019 Napa Valley Benchlands Cabernet Sauvignon – 1,949 cases
2015 Napa Valley Benchlands Cabernet Sauvignon – 850 cases

Crocker & Starr | crockerstarr.com
Julie Robertson, winemaker
2023 Saint Helena Crocker Estate Sauvignon Blanc
2021 Saint Helena Crocker Estate Cabernet Sauvignon ‘RLC’ – 482 cases

*Dalla Valle Vineyards | dallavallevineyards.com
Maya Dalla Valle, winemaker
2020 Oakville Dalla Valle Cabernet Sauvignon – 1,100 cases

Dunn Vineyards | dunnvineyards.com
Ted Kizor, winemaker
2019 Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
3750 standard cases and 225 magnum cases
2011 Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
2100 standard cases and 175 magnum cases
Mike Dunn and Randy Dunn winemakers for both these wines

Green & Red | greenandred.com
Aaron Whitlatch, winemaker
2018 Napa Valley Chiles Mill Vineyard Zinfandel – 850 cases
2018 Napa Valley Tip Top Vineyard Zinfandel – 450 cases
Jay Heminway, winemaker for both these wines

Grgich Hills Estate | grgich.com
Ivo Jeramaz, winemaker
2021 Napa Valley Estate Grown Chardonnay – 900 cases
2016 Rutherford Estate Cabernet Sauvignon – 900 cases

Levendi Winery | levendiwinery.com
Alison Doran, winemaker
2019 Atlas Peak Stagecoach Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon – 698 cases
2016 Atlas Peak Stagecoach Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon – 1,204 cases

Pride Mountain Vineyards | pridewines.com
Matt Ward, winemaker
2022 Napa Valley Chardonnay – 1,444 cases
2021 Napa County Merlot – 4,661 cases

Robert Biale Vineyards | biale.com
David Natali, winemaker
2023 Oak Knoll Greco Bianco Clementina – 400 cases
2022 Napa Valley Black Chicken Zinfandel – 7,000 cases

Signorello Estate | signorelloestate.com
Priyanka French, winemaker
2022 Napa Valley Estate Hope’s Cuvée Chardonnay – 400 cases
2021 Napa Valley Estate Signori Cabernet Sauvignon – 890 cases

Spottswoode Estate | spottswoode.com
Aron Weinkauf, winemaker
2022 Napa Valley & Sonoma County Sauvignon Blanc – 4,000 cases
2021 Saint Helena Estate Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon – 4,000 cases

Trefethen Family Vineyards | trefethen.com
Travis Gallagher, winemaker
2022 Oak Knoll District Estate Dry Riesling – 4,724 cases
Bryan Kays, winemaker for this wine
2019 Oak Knoll District “Dragon’s Tooth” Proprietary Red Blend – 7,023 cases
Bryan Kays, winemaker for this wine

Villa Ragazzi | villaragazzi.wine
Bob Pepi, winemaker
2019 Napa Valley Sangiovese – 72 cases
2012 Napa Valley Sangiovese – 113 cases
Nate Weis, winemaker for this wine

*2024 Wine Alliance member
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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 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 …

The Lantern Slide Collection

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

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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.”

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Updated - 3/18/24