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Bouchaine Vineyards Offers Gee Vineyard Blending Seminar

April 23, 2019, Napa, CA – Bouchaine Vineyards will offer a Pinot Noir blending seminar featuring the wines of Gee Vineyard on May 18, 2019.

This is the second year Bouchaine Vineyards has conducted the event honoring their partnership with the Gee family as the exclusive buyer of their grapes since the original planting. The morning event includes a special tour of the Gee Vineyard by Dr. Paul Gee himself along with Bouchaine’s winemakers.  The vineyard was hand-planted by Dr. Gee and his family in 1981, and is one of the few “head-trained” Pinot Noir vineyards in California.  This 17.34-acre vineyard is dry-farmed since the family hand-watered by bucket when originally planted.

To explore the unique variations of the vineyard, guests will be divided into teams and provided with wine samples from specific blocks of the property. With graduated cylinders in hand and a preface on the art of blending, the teams will then create their own blend. The team’s result that comes closest to the Bouchaine bottle blend will earn bragging rights and takeaway gifts.  Lunch follows with verticals of Gee Vineyard Pinot Noir to taste. The event takes place among the vines in the historic Gee Vineyard barn just across from the Bouchaine Estate.

The event begins at 10:00 am and concludes following lunch at 1:00 pm. The cost for the event is $75 per person and includes the vineyard tour, blending seminar, and lunch paired with a selection of Bouchaine’s Gee Vineyard Pinot Noirs, including the pre-release 2017 vintage.

Reservations are required and can be made by calling (800) 654-WINE or (707) 252-9065.

As a premier producer of Estate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Bouchaine Vineyards is both critically and environmentally acclaimed. Noted as the first “Fish Friendly Farming” certified vineyard in Napa Valley, and also Napa Green certified, Bouchaine continues to seek sustainable farming methods that elevate the distinct quality of their wines.

Family-owned Bouchaine Vineyards is located at 1075 Buchli Station Road, Napa, CA 94559. The winery is open daily for tasting and tours. Reservations are required for groups of six or more guests. More information is available at www.bouchaine.com or by calling (800) 654-WINE or (707) 252-9065.

About Bouchaine Vineyards

Bouchaine Vineyards is the oldest continuously operating winery in the Carneros District. Originally planted in the late 1880s, Gerret and Tatiana Copeland have been the proprietors of our estate since 1981. Meticulous sustainable farming techniques and the estate terroir allow for crafting award-winning Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays. Bouchaine continually endeavors to create the perfect bottle of wine embodying the excellence of Burgundy, the exuberance of California and the terroir of Carneros.

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