NVWLA Events
- Wine Tasting 101, A Wine Appreciation Primer
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
St. Helena Public Library
St. Helena, California
9 am to 1 pm
Forty Wine Library members, friends and winery hospitality staff met for the Wine Primer with Sandi Lucchesi (www.asenseofwine.com) and eagerly started at nine without coffee.
In the first session, Sandi gave everyone a chance to compare, contrast and discuss the color—why a white tablecloth is a very good thing—and the aroma of three wines and their tastes: acid, sweetness and tannin.
In the next session, the class sampled three different teas, tasting for acid, sweetness (especially mouth feel) and tannin. After a brief consideration of cool and warm climates, of crisper and citrussy contrasted with full-bodied and richer, three wines provoked shared commentary with Sandi on their characteristics of color, nose and taste.
The class next worked in four teams to correctly identify wines of eight different aromas. Each team, practicing its newly honed skills, had a chance to successfully identify a wine in a black wine glass: its color, variety, and, going for the gold, appellation. Class concluded with the challenge of memorizing the whiff of a glass of corked wine and a solid round of applause for Sandi and her enjoyable as well as memorably productive Wine Primer.
- 4th Annual Books on Wine Festival
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
St. Helena Public Library
St. Helena, CaliforniaJim Gordon, editor of Wines and Vines Magazine since 2006, is the editor-in-chief of Opus Vino, an extraordinary 800-page compendium of thousands of 21st Century wineries published by DK Publishing. Authors from near and far contributed articles describing wine regions world-wide and their appellations, wineries, wines and wine styles. Mike Dunne, Alder Yarrow and Tim Teichgraeber covered most of the NorCal ground for this important reference work.
Jim is not only an experienced editor, but also a talented one. Opus Vino has just been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Book Award in the Beverage category. JIm began his career as a former editor of the St. Helena Star and was managing editor of The Wine Spectator for a number of years before joining Wines and Vines. He and his family live in Napa where Jim also makes home wine from his own patch of vineyard. The wines accompanying his presentation and booksigning were from St. Helena vintners; CC Blue created the fast-disappearing sushi.
- 49th Annual Wine Tasting
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A Napa Valley White Wine Celebration
Sunday, August 14, 2011
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.In the Grove at Silverado Resort, Napa
100 invited Napa Valley wineries present their white, rose and sparkling wines beneath the shady Valley Oaks of the Grove at Silverado. For Wine Library members only.
List of Wineries and Their Wines
List of Wines and the Wineries Presenting Them
Free to association members
Invitations will be mailed
Membership Application (PDF)
