Nov11
WednesdayThe Oakville Walkaround Seminar
6 - 8pm
$50 per ticket
PURCHASE + DETAILS
Seven of Oakville’s most respected producers—Opus One, Groth, Morlet, Ghost Block, Paradigm, Patria, and Nickel & Nickel—are joining us at 270 Madison for an evening exploring one of Napa Valley’s most celebrated appellations.
Meet the people behind the wines, including Suzanne Groth of Groth Vineyards & Winery, Claire Morlet of Morlet Family Vineyards, Mary Anne Turrentine of Paradigm, Tony Biagi of Patria, Morgaen Hoxsey of Ghost Block, Emily Cipollone representing Nickel & Nickel, and Scott Gould and Meghan Zobeck of Opus One.
Each producer will be represented at an individual educational station, where you can learn directly from the people who know these vineyards best: where they sit, what’s underneath them, and how those differences show up in the finished wines.
Oakville covers about 5,700 acres, roughly nine square miles, which makes it less than half the size of Manhattan. The valley floor is only about two miles across, about the walk from our door up Madison to 79th Street. Inside that footprint, the soils and sun change enough from west to east that neighboring vineyards produce noticeably different wines.
The west side sits on broad alluvial fans of gravel and clay loam washed down from the Mayacamas Mountains, home to To Kalon and Martha’s Vineyard. Vines there get morning and midday sun before the mountains shade them in late afternoon, and the wines tend to be darker and more mineral. The Napa River runs through the middle, leaving deeper, more fertile soils that lean toward riper, rounder wines. On the east side, red, iron-rich volcanic soils come off the Vaca Range, and vines get no morning sun but full sun from midday into early evening, which tends to show up as dusty tannins and riper fruit.
$50 per ticket
PURCHASE + DETAILS
Seven of Oakville’s most respected producers—Opus One, Groth, Morlet, Ghost Block, Paradigm, Patria, and Nickel & Nickel—are joining us at 270 Madison for an evening exploring one of Napa Valley’s most celebrated appellations.
Meet the people behind the wines, including Suzanne Groth of Groth Vineyards & Winery, Claire Morlet of Morlet Family Vineyards, Mary Anne Turrentine of Paradigm, Tony Biagi of Patria, Morgaen Hoxsey of Ghost Block, Emily Cipollone representing Nickel & Nickel, and Scott Gould and Meghan Zobeck of Opus One.
Each producer will be represented at an individual educational station, where you can learn directly from the people who know these vineyards best: where they sit, what’s underneath them, and how those differences show up in the finished wines.
Oakville covers about 5,700 acres, roughly nine square miles, which makes it less than half the size of Manhattan. The valley floor is only about two miles across, about the walk from our door up Madison to 79th Street. Inside that footprint, the soils and sun change enough from west to east that neighboring vineyards produce noticeably different wines.
The west side sits on broad alluvial fans of gravel and clay loam washed down from the Mayacamas Mountains, home to To Kalon and Martha’s Vineyard. Vines there get morning and midday sun before the mountains shade them in late afternoon, and the wines tend to be darker and more mineral. The Napa River runs through the middle, leaving deeper, more fertile soils that lean toward riper, rounder wines. On the east side, red, iron-rich volcanic soils come off the Vaca Range, and vines get no morning sun but full sun from midday into early evening, which tends to show up as dusty tannins and riper fruit.