Vintage Soiree
Event Description:
Join us Friday-night, for our 30th birthday celebration, the Vintage Soiree at the pastoral Ranch at Lake Sonoma. Our Pre-Passport, 30th Anniversary celebration welcomes you with a reception of diverse Dry Creek Valley wines paired with appetizers from local chefs, oysters and charcuterie. Then join us at our family table for a wine country casual sit down dinner. Enjoy the best of farm-to-table bounty in the countryside barn, hand-paired with wines and a story from our vintners.
Both cocktail dresses and cowboy boots are appropriate. Dancing and live music are complemented by gourmet s’mores and soul warming fire pits under the stars after dinner.
Schedule of Events
5:30-6:30pm Tasting experience and small bites reception
6:30-8:00pm Family style sit-down dinner by the Spinster Sisters
8:00-9:30pm Dancing, live music, s’mores bar and fire pits
Tasting Experience
Stroll through the grounds at The Ranch as you enjoy some of the best and diverse Dry Creek Valley wines, presented by winery owners and winemakers. Sip on sparkling + chilled wines paired with oysters and charcuterie. In addition, local chefs will be presenting specially curated small bites which will beautifully complement the Dry Creek Valley wines.
What Wine is it Anyway?
Put your sommelier skills to work! Taste through mystery varietals to enter a prize drawing for a Dry Creek Valley gift basket full of local artisanal products and goodies.
Farm to table family style dinner
Sit down inside the warm and inviting barn next to to our Dry Creek wineries and enjoy an incredible dinner catered by Liza Hinman, chef and owner of The Spinster Sisters. Your menu for the evening includes a baby artichoke and asparagus panzanella, roasted Bernier farms carrots and baby turnips followed by a spring mix trio from the grill that will feature Meyer lemon + green garlic chicken with chimichurri, Calabrese pork sausages, Valley Oak beef skewers with a fava bean and feta salsina.
Dancing and S’mores bar
Don’t forget your dancing boots! The celebration continues as the final portion of the evening will take place under the stars at The Ranch. Featuring live dance music sure to bring you to your feet. Warm fire pits, dessert wine and a grand S’mores bar will cap off the evening.
