For the ninth time, the Napa Valley Vintners invited Life Between the Vines to Premiere Napa Valley, held at the Culinary Institute of America in St Helena. Premiere is the trade auction that all Napa and the wine industry look forward to. The time to catch up with old friends from the valley as well as from around the world. Tasting one-of-a-kind wines made especially for PNV. Watching breathless bidding on gems that we may never see again. It really is a special event. For this program we tasted the fantastic 2017 vintage while recording brief interviews with 27 vintners…all while shooting video and balancing an audio recorder along with a wine glass. Needless to say, we did not finish the tasting with the same glass we started with.

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For the ninth time, the Napa Valley Vintners invited Life Between the Vines to Premiere Napa Valley, held at the Culinary Institute of America in St Helena. Premiere is the trade auction that all Napa and the wine industry look forward to. The time to catch up with old friends from the valley as well as from around the world. Tasting one-of-a-kind wines made especially for PNV. Watching breathless bidding on gems that we may never see again. It really is a special event. For this program we tasted the fantastic 2017 vintage while recording brief interviews with 27 vintners…all while shooting video and balancing an audio recorder along with a wine glass. Needless to say, we did not finish the tasting with the same glass we started with. Photo by Jeanette Hrnyak.

Here we offer a second Premiere Napa Valley video. A look at the events during PNV as well as the week before.

Making wine in Napa Valley brings together winemakers from just about everywhere:  Minnesota, South Dakota, Michigan, France, Australia, Louisiana, Switzerland, Denmark and even, Napa Valley. Each year many of these winemakers come together in February to offer some very special wines for Premiere Napa Valley. Premiere is an event for the trade and wine industry professionals. Most of this years offerings were from the 2016 vintage and after tasting many pours, I can attest to the fact that these were some fantastic wines! I was not alone in this opinion. The auction raised over $4.1 million. As always the event was held at the Culinary institute of America in St. Helena which is where we recorded several short interviews with the winemakers and owners. This is one special day which concludes a busy and hectic week. We offer a sincere congratulations to the vintners for a job well done. The bidders did pretty well too! So sit back and enjoy the sounds the a successful Premiere Napa Valley 2018.

Winemakers interviewed for this podcast:

1. Adam Fox-Canard Vineyard
2. Michael Scholz-St. Supery
3. Richie Allen-Rombauer Vineyards
4. Luke Russ-O’Shaughnessy Winery
5. David Tate-Barnett Vineyards/Tate Wine
6. Todd Graff-Frank Family Vineyards
7. Don LaBorde-Paraduxx
8. Hailey Trefethen-Trefethen Family Vineyards
9. Aron Weinkauf-Spottswoode Winery
10. Molly Lyman-Volker Eisele Estate
11. Jean Hoefliger-Alpha Omega/AXR
12. Sam Baxter-Terra Valentine
13. Elliot Stern-Oakville East Exposure
14. Sara Fowler-Peju Province Winery
15. Yannick Rousseau-Y. Rousseau Winery
16. Stuart Spoto-Spoto Family Winery
17. Mary Rocca-Rocca Family Winery
18. John Skupny-Lang & Reed Winery
19. John Reinert-Brilliant Mistake Wines
20. Jennelle Manzanares-Bougetz Cellars
21. Elizabeth Vianna-Chimney Rock Winery
22. Aaron Pott-Pott Wine
23. Philippe Langner-Hesperian Wines
24. Sarah McCrea-Stony Hill Vineyard

Learn more by visiting www.napavintners.com

Photos by Jeanette Hrnyak

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