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Premiere Napa Valley 2009 Photo Gallery
Photography Copyright 2009 Jason Tinacci
Experience Napa Valley - February 16-21, 2009
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As part of Premiere Napa Valley week, the NVV hosted a dozen trade from the UK, Canada and Japan for a week-long "Experience Napa Valley" intensive. Here, the group begins with a Napa Valley overview, held at Duckhorn Vineyards.
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As part of their intensive, trade members participated in numerous vintner-led tastings and workshops. Here, Margaret Duckhorn leads a panel on a discussion of valley floor appellations and wines.
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In addition to tasting panels such as this one, Experience Napa Valley participants worked alongside a winemaker in the cellar for a morning, learned about some of the cutting-edge techniques used by Napa Valley vintners in the vineyard and cellar; dined with vintners; and more.
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Chris Howell, Cain Vineyard & Winery; Paula Kornell, Oakville, Ranch Vineyards; and Elias Fernandez, Shafer Vineyards, lead a discussion and tasting of mountain and hillside appellation wines.
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Experience participants at the mountain and hillside appellation tasting panel, held at Shafer Vineyards.
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Experience Napa Valley 2009 participants with the Shafer Vineyards team.
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Vintage Perspective Tasting - Friday, February 20, 2009
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The event, attended by more than 250 members of the trade, wine media and vintners, has become the kick-off event to Premiere Napa Valley.
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Held in the Rudd Center at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, the Vintage Perspective Tasting gave attendees a snapshot of Napa Valley vintages past, present and future.
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Vintage Perspective Tasting attendees sampled Cabernet from the 2004, 2005 and 2006 vintages, all of which were tasted blind.
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Guests tasted three vintages of Cabernet--2004, 2005 and 2006--from 20 producers.
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Vintage Perspective Tasting attendees compare notes as they work their way through the 60 wines presented.
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A 2006 sample at the 2009 Premiere Napa Valley Vintage Perspective Tasting.
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2009 Premiere Napa Valley Perspective Tasting attendees compare notes post-tasting.
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Vintage Perspective Tasting attendees took advantage of the day's beautiful weather to compare notes outside after the tasting.
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Premiere Napa Valley Barrel Tasting & Auction - Saturday, February 21, 2009
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The barrel tasting at PNV provides trade and media with the opportunity to catch a valuable insider's snapshot of what's going on in Napa Valley.
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Members of the wine trade and media made good use of the 2-1/2 hours they had during the barrel tasting portion of the day to meet and taste with the
vintners who had donated lots to Premiere Napa Valley 2009.
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Perhaps more important than the wine sold is the invaluable networking opportunity Premiere Napa Valley offers trade from across North America and around the world. Here, Ichizo and Seiichiro Nakagawa share a laugh with Barr Smith of Barlow Vineyards.
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At the barrel tasting, a sell-out crowd checked out the 200 lots up for auction that afternoon.
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The day's top bidder, Gary Fisch of Gary's Wine & Marketplace (Madison, NJ), with Stag's Leap Wine Cellars founder Warren Winiarski.
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NVV board of directors members Bruce Cakebread (Cakebread Cellars), Paula Kornell (Oakville Ranch Vineyards) and Ed Matovcik (Beringer Vineyards) were on hand to welcome guests to Premiere Napa Valley.
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Napa Valley wine industry veterans Nancy Duckhorn, consultant, (left) and Janet Pagano, managing partner of Ovid Napa Valley, (right) talk with Alan Dreeben of Republic National Distributing Company.
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Lunch, prepared by the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, provided even more time for vintners and trade to meet and mingle before the auction.
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PNV 2009 Chair Bryan Del Bondio of Markham Vineyards enjoys the auction's opening "show of paddles."
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Long-time PNV supporters Stan and Mary Stack of Beau's Wine Bin (Oklahoma City, OK).
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PNV Chair Bryan Del Bondio celebrates the winning bid on lot 1, a collaboration between Markham Vineyards and Ghost Block.
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Vintners Rich Salvestrin (Salvestrin), Judd Finkelstein (Judd's Hill) and Andy Schweiger (Schweiger Vineyards) were one of several groups of vintners who collaborated on a lot for PNV 2009.
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Rhett Gadke from the Bounty Hunter (Napa, CA) places one of his bids for the day.
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Longtime PNV auctioneer Fritz Hatton surrounded by new PNV auctioneers Michael Davis and Emily Newhouse, the three of whom auctioned off the 200 lots in 2-1/2 hours.
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Ready to bid.
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Longtime bidder Marcus Graziano of Capitol Cellars (Roseville, CA), receives a bottle as a thank you from Juan Mercado of Realm Cellars.
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Kerrin Laz of Dean & DeLuca (St. Helena, CA) places one of her successful bids for the day.
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Bret Lopez, owner of Scarecrow Wine, thanks top bidder Ichizo Nakagawa of Nakagawa Wine Co. (Tokyo, Japan) for purchasing Scarecrow's lot, which received the day's top bid of $80,000.
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Glenn Salva, Kim Wiss and Piero Antinori of Antica Napa Valley - Antinori Family Wine Estate, with bidder Jerry Zech of Winebid.com.
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Bidders from Little Rock celebrate with vintners and auctioneers at the close of Premiere Napa Valley.
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Bryan Del Bondio (third from left), chair for PNV 2009, with successful bidders Michael Brick of Hi-Time Cellars (Costa Mesa, CA); Gary Fisch of Gary's Wine & Marketplace (Madison, NJ); and Glen Knight of The Wine House (Los Angeles).
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Top bidder Gary Fisch reviews his purchases for the day.
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