ALL THAT WINE!
Fête Blanc 2019
From the top: Cristal Louis Roederer; Aperture Cellars; Rochioli Winery; Failla Wines; La Pitchoune Winery; Medlock-Ames; brick & mortar Wines; Reeve Wines; Kosta Browne Winery; Jordan Winery; Purple Pachyderm; Drew Wines; Handley Cellars; Dutton-Goldfield Winery; Guthrie Family Wines; Idlewild Wines…along with Satyre Wines, Senses Wines, Trombetta Family Wines, Valkyrie Selections, Zeitlos Cellars, Cruess Wine, Copain Wines, Crux Winery, J Vineyards, Preston Farm and Winery, Smith Story Wine Cellars, Scribe Winery, Red Car Wine, Ryme Cellars, Comstock Wines, Carboniste, Gary Farrell Winery, Gail Wines, Pax Wine, Ramey Cellars, Read Holland Wines, Rootdown Wine Cellars, T. Berkley Wines
FOOD!
Caviar blinis, BD farm Gravenstein apples with honey, heirloom fig tarts, spit roast Rosie chicken in Randy’s pita with slaw and confit tomatoes, lemon curd wine-spiced blondies…
COMMUNITY!
Everyone came to drink, to eat a bit, to enjoy a perfect summer day in the gardens, which we did in style. But generosity was also on the menu as participating wineries once again contributed bottles to a raffle to benefit the essential services of Corazón Healdsburg. BD wine director Chappy Cottrell led the charge.
Yes, Healdsburg is changing, we got the memo, but some community roots still run strong and deep: the woman on the left (the indomitable Susan Preston of Preston Farm and Winery) knew the young man on the right (Sam Bilbro of Idlewild Wines) when he was only a bump in the tummy and a gleam in his mum’s eye. The gentleman in the middle is Barndiva’s Geoffrey Hales. One of the great things about our fêtes is the chance to see old friends, and make new ones. This is a community driven event.
