June 13, 2025 (St. Helena, CA) — DeLoach Vineyards and Raymond Vineyards, each stalwarts of their respective wine areas with greater than 100 years of mixed historical past within the Russian River Valley and Rutherford, introduced at the moment a brand new imaginative and prescient for welcoming company to their wineries with complimentary tasting flights on Thursdays and Sundays designed to coach and entice company.
“We exist to deliver folks into the wine world,” stated Jean-Charles Boisset, Proprietor. “We consider within the energy of training and enjoyable to ignite the following era of wine customers at all ages. Our wineries are platforms for connection, inspiration, data, and pleasure.”
The wine expertise has been curated by Boisset’s Grasp of Wine, Clare Tooley. “Now greater than ever, it’s very important that we declare to the world that the wine neighborhood is open, inclusive, inviting and provoking!” added Clare Tooley, MW, and Vice President of Visitor Expertise for the Boisset Assortment.
At DeLoach Vineyards, the complimentary tasting will spotlight the vineyard’s lengthy historical past and deep connection to the Russian River Valley with a flight that includes three wines from the area’s hallmark varietals: Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Zinfandel, paired with training on the vineyard’s fifty-year historical past, its Biodynamic farming strategies, and the area’s considerable micro-climates and various terroir. Friends shall be seated outside among the many natural and Biodynamic property vineyards on the vineyard on the Olivet Bench.
Raymond Vineyards in Napa Valley’s esteemed Rutherford appellation will supply a three-wine tasting flight chosen from its Napa Valley Reserve Choice wines: Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon. The complimentary flight shall be introduced outside within the vineyard’s “GROVE” adjoining to the property vineyards additionally farmed in keeping with natural and Biodynamic ideas. The complimentary flight at Raymond accompanies quite a few experiences that welcome company to find wine and be taught in an attractive approach.
“We designed the Raymond hospitality expertise to coach, encourage and welcome,” elaborated Boisset. “From our complimentary Theater of Nature, the Crystal Cellar, our Rutherford terroir room or Winemaker for a Day mixing expertise, each ingredient of the vineyard was designed to coach and empower our company to dive as deep into Napa Valley as they like, or just to take pleasure in, replicate and join with each other – for that is the facility of wine.”
As well as, Raymond has created new immersive experiences, together with the Journey of the Senses: An Immersive Winery, Backyard and Vineyard Tour that travels from its Biodynamic property winery to its Theater of Nature and past to a non-public fragrance sensory backyard, concluding with a vineyard tour and wine tasting surrounded by nature’s magnificence and tranquility.
They’ve additionally created a collection of wine tastings paired with the humanities along with Nimbus Arts. These immersive wine and artwork experiences invite company to turn out to be the creators of their creative imaginative and prescient, impressed by the creative imaginative and prescient of the vineyard itself. “Life is a Theater,
Wine is our Muse, and we’re the actors on the stage!” declared Boisset.
Jean-Charles Boisset, Wine Fanatic’s 2024 Particular person of the Yr, has lengthy championed inclusivity and accessibility within the wine world along with his mantra “Oceans Might Separate Us, however Wine Unites Us.”
About Boisset Assortment
Boisset is a family-owned assortment of historic and distinctive wineries and life-style locations sure collectively by a typical trigger: genuine, terroir-driven wines in concord with their historical past, their future, and the land and folks important to their existence. It has greater than thirty historic and prestigious nonetheless and glowing wineries on the earth’s preeminent terroirs, together with Burgundy, Beaujolais, Jura, the Rhône Valley, Provence, and the south of France, in addition to California’s Sonoma County, Russian River Valley, and the Napa Valley.
Its California wineries embody: DeLoach Vineyards, Raymond Vineyards, Buena Vista Vineyard, Elizabeth Spencer, and JCB by Jean-Charles Boisset. Its French properties characteristic Domaine de la Vougeraie, Jean-Claude Boisset, Bouchard Aîné et Fils, J. Moreau et Fils, Louis Bouillot, Domaine Maire, Louis Bernard, Chais de Sud, and Bonpas.
Boisset has lengthy championed licensed sustainable, natural, and Biodynamic® practices at its estates. Its wineries champion the management of ladies on the earth, respect for historical past, and dedication to conviviality as core values. Boisset is well-regarded for being an advocate for historical past together with its restoration of Buena Vista Vineyard, Oakville Grocery, and the Calistoga Depot, along with its two museums celebrating the historical past of wine–at Buena Vista Vineyard and the 1881 Napa Museum on the Oakville Wine Service provider.
Boisset’s burgeoning luxurious spirits portfolio contains Casa Obsidiana Tequila with the Beckmann Gonzalez household, JCB Spirits by Jean-Charles Boisset, and the Calistoga Depot Distillery.
Proprietor Jean-Charles Boisset was named Wine Fanatic Journal’s 2024 Particular person of the Yr and Casa Obisidiana was nominated for Spirit Model of the Yr.
