Napa Valley Wine Library 50 celebrates years Annual tasting commemorates half century of library history Owith a wine tasting celebration, “A Toast to History:ver 1,000 people attended festivities celebrating the NapaValley Wine Library Association for its fifty years of history Vintner’s Choice.” This is the Association’s 50th Annual Tasting and featured 100 of the Napa Valley’s finest wineries. The event took place in the beautiful Oak Grove at the Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, where the association has hosted its annual tasting for more than twenty-five years. “This event is the single best opportunity to taste the wines of Napa Valley and meet the owners, vintners and winemakers. Each winery poured a current release and an older vintage in honor of the historic occasion,” said Carolyn Martini, President of the Napa Valley Wine Library Association. Attendees also had a by an al fresco lunch from Bouchon Bakery served in the gardens of chance to meet and talk Spottswoode, where the association’s Annual Tasting was held from with a select number of 1966 until 1970. An optional tour of the adjacent vineyards and winery young winemakers and of Spottswoode Estate, celebrating its own 40th anniversary, concluded winegrowers during the the Saturday event. daylong event, “A Toast Founded in 1963, the Napa Valley Wine Library Association to the Future: the Next dedicates their efforts to the acquisition, preservation and sharing of Generations,” in St. Helena. information about wine and its history in the Napa Valley and around A dozen vintners presented the world. In 1966, the association offered the first wine appreciation their wines as they discussed classes in the Napa Valley, and today continues to host seminars and their chosen livelihoods as other educational events, as well as to maintain a collection of new members of the second, and rare books, images, oral histories, and scholarly and popular third, even fifth generations journals that document wines and wine growing. The collection offers of their family-owned incomparable resources for wine enthusiasts and professionals alike, and wineries during panel is available at the St. Helena Public Library in St. Helena, California. discussions and Q&A’s at CIA-Greystone. The More information can be found at napawinelibrary.com, on Facebook presentations were followed or on Twitter @NapaWineLibrary. 24 w w w. n A PA V A L L E Y L I F E m A g A z I n E . c o m
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