The Pink Party, Féte Blanc and The Sparkle Party are our annual collaborative wine events that celebrate talent, seasonality, and the uninhibited joys of gathering together to just have fun. We are happy to report they will all be back in fine form in 2025!
But starting this March we have also lined-up a series of community gatherings we hope will help nourish the long term health of our wine loving (and wine dependent) community which has so clearly come to a crossroads.
Change is Inevitable - often painful, hopefully purposeful, rarely but sometimes even sublime… what it can’t be, is avoided. With this in mind we've curated some extra curricular events this year to consider some of the challenging issues confronting those of us who love living and working in wine country, in this pivotal moment in time.
Join Us.
On March 30 from 1-5 Barndiva will co-host our second ‘Women in the Wine Industry’ with Bâtonnage Forum, Barndiva Wine Director Emily Carlson, and Alex Sarovich of Own Rooted Hospitality.
First up will be a (newly expanded) networking session, ‘speed dating’ style, for women wine professionals across every discipline. This Networking session will be held in Studio Barndiva from 1:00- 3:00, with bites and sips to keep us fortified. It will be followed by an ‘everyone welcome’ mixer (that means you, gentle men) in Barndiva to keep the conversation going, reconnect with industry friends, make new ones!
Women In the Wine Industry will have a raffle benefitting Bâtonnage Forum with excellent bottles donated from Amista Vineyard's Ashley Herzberg; Bruliam’s Kerith Overstreet; Read Holland’s Ashley Holland, and J Vineyard’s Nicole Hitchcock. Our thanks to them all for their support!
Barndiva's Pink Party launches the social season in Healdsburg every Spring. Always a sell-out, consider this is your 'friends and family' heads-up to grab tickets while you can, and tell the friends and family you hope to meet there to do the same.
A joyous collaborative wine tasting afternoon that showcases dozens of the most sublime Rosé producers in Sonoma and Mendocino, it is also a chance to schmooze, dance, sip and nibble beneath the flowering wisteria surrounded by gorgeous florals sourced from local slow flower farmers. Full cases of all the Rosé wines you will be tasting are donated by the winemakers for a raffle in support of the essential services provided by Corazón Healdsburg.
Pink is a great community gathering to celebrate the season - an opportunity to raise a glass to the talent, work and friendship that makes wine country such an incredible place to work and live..
Don't forget: Dress Code is Think Pink!
For two decades Barndiva has been committed to showcasing local wine makers we admire along with singular producers from afar. They all had several things in common: a respect for the land they farmed, the people who worked alongside them, and an understanding of how to balance providence and technology to produce wines we found so compelling in the glass we couldn't wait to share them with our customers. That commitment has not faltered.
But there is little doubt that the wine industry at the center of our local economy - indeed at the heart of our many of our lives in our vineyards, wineries, restaurants - is going through profound change raising significant questions we are curious to explore in our Conversations Worth Having series.
Though the date is TBA as we juggle schedules with esteem speakers, Conversations Worth Having #4 will focus on smart farming and resource conservation, game changing technology including but not limited to AI, and crucially, how to engage todays wine drinkers (or the lack thereof) as we navigate what is clearly a changing consumer ‘taste’ for the grape.
Stay tuned to our blog, Eat the View, for updates on CWH4 as Dawnelise, Susan, Amber and I plan what we hope will be a stimulating and compelling experience. @barndivahealdsburg
