About the Event
Tickets are $90 per person
($40 of each ticket is tax-deductible)
Early Bird tickets are $75 per person
if purchased by January 16, 2009.
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Proceeds benefit LMU Scholarships.
The Wineries
Our tasting event is one of the few where you'll have the opportunity
to meet the owner or vintner of every participating winery. We've
hand selected 45 of the best boutique wineries in California.
Participating wineries include:
Arns Winery • Astrale e Terra • Barnett Vineyards
Benziger Family Winery • Blackford Wines •August Briggs Wines
Cafaro Cellars • William Cole Vineyards
Corison Wines • Cottonwood Canyon Vineyard & Winery
Robert Craig Wine Cellars • Falcone Family Vineyards
Ferrari-Carano Vineyards & Winery • Foxen Vineyard
Frazier Winery • Judd's Hill • Krupps Brothers Estates
Karl Lawrence Cellars • Lewelling Wine Co •Livingston-Moffett Winery
Miner Family Winery • Moss Creek Winery • Niner Wines
Ortman Family Vineyards • O'Shaughnessy • Paradigm Winery
Patz Hall Wine Company • River Bench Vineyards • Rombauer Vineyards
Saddleback Cellars • Sawyer Cellars • Smith-Madrone • Sonador Cellars
Spelletich Cellars • St. Francis Vineyards & Winery • Talbott Vineyards
Tandem Winery • Lane Tanner Winery • Vinoce Vineyard
Kenneth Volk Vineyards • White Cottage Ranch Winery
Whitehall Lane • White Rock Vineyards • ZD Wines
Wine Appreciation Notes
Start with dry white wines before sweet whites or red wines. Light reds should be tasted prior to heavier reds and dessert wines should be tasted last.
The wineries will pour about an ounce of wine - enough to examine color, aroma and taste.
Don't hesitate to pour out excess or even to spit the wine into the buckets provided. This enables you to enjoy distinctions among the varietals presented which could easily be lost due to the effects of alcohol or palate fatigue. Professional tasters often avoid swallowing the wines they examine.
It is also a good idea to stay with a given varietal until you tasted all the wines of interest to you in that category. We will provide a wide variety of foods to help refresh your palate.
Click here for a detailed guide to appreciating wines.
Click here for a glossary of wine terms.