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Winemakers’ Winter 2019 – Quarterly Meeting & Potluck
Our Quarterly Meetings are a wonderful time to meet and socialize with other winemakers, taste each others' wines, and receive great advice from our more experienced members. SO2 testing is available prior to the meeting 11am-12:30pm
Find out more »Dine with Wine: Moulin Bistro
Romance will fill the air, so on February 13, let’s party, celebrate Valentine’s Day, and enjoy French food! By popular demand, we are having another fantastic dinner at Moulin Bistro, one of the newest and brightest stars in our local culinary scene. Owner Laurent and his team will lovingly prepare a gourmet French dinner for us. Everything is prepared fresh and in-house every day. The price for this Parisian dinner is $50 for members and $55 for guests, all-inclusive. Important…
Find out more »Winery Program: Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola Winery brings a “wine wonderland” to Alexander Valley with award-winning wines. Coppola Winery produces more than 40 wines under 10 wine brands and can produce 10,000 cases of wine per day. François Coordesse, one of our Commercial Wine Competition judges, will present the wines this evening. Some of the wines produced include: Francis Ford Coppola Reserve - limited production wines that showcase distinctive vineyards from Sonoma’s renowned appellations; Archimedes – offers flamboyant and immensely concentrated wines that…
Find out more »Pinot Noir Mini-Tasting
Pinot Noir is the wine considered by many to be the “holy grail” of wine. This temperamental grape varietal requires warm daytime and cool evening temperatures and is partial to coastal climates. The Burgundy region of France’s Cote d’Or region is well known for Pinot Noir where only Chardonnay is planted in greater abundance. In California, plantings began in the 1940s with a significant push in Sonoma starting in the 1960s. Today high quality Pinots are produced in Sonoma, Mendocino…
Find out more »Winery Program: Trentadue Winery
Since the beginning of Trentadue Winery in 1969 in the “remote” Alexander Valley of Sonoma County, their goal has been to produce affordable, every day drinking wine without sacrificing quality. The Trentadue wines are products of that credo, proving that excellence in grape growing and wine making do not require a hefty price tag. Winemaker Miro Tcholakov’s philosophy in a nut shell is to make the best wine possible from the grapes grown on the Trentadue Estate; with the greatest respect…
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