NAPA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA |July 3, 2025: The Napa-Sonoma Chapter of Ladies for WineSense (WWS), the premier nationwide group advancing and connecting wine professionals and fans, is thrilled to announce the thirty fifth Anniversary Summer time Soirée, a milestone celebration on Sunday, July 13, 2025, from 4:30 to 7:00 PM. Held on the acclaimed Tres Sabores Vineyard within the coronary heart of Napa Valley, this celebratory occasion will mix wines, storytelling, and elegance right into a vibrant expression of WWS’s enduring mission and spirit.
This gathering honors the founding chapter, commemorating 35 steady years of connection, mentorship, and management throughout the wine trade, and invitations all attendees to be a part of writing the following chapter.
Ladies For WineSense was based in Napa-Sonoma in 1990 to counter the anti-alcohol narrative taking maintain at the moment. Since then, it has grown in dimension and function to 12 lively chapters throughout the USA. General, it’s a group of wine professionals and fans, welcoming everybody, dedicated to skilled development and fostering the information and appreciation of wine and its cultural and historic significance.
Wines from many acclaimed members can be complemented by gourmand seasonal fare, thoughtfully ready to boost the tasting expertise and mirror the flavors of summer season in Napa Valley. To prime it off, visitors will get pleasure from a celebratory anniversary cake—a candy tribute to 35 years of group, connection, our volunteers and accomplishments.
Past the celebration, the Soirée can be an area for connection and inspiration. Because it seems ahead to the following 35 years, the occasion will reaffirm the values which have all the time set the founding chapter of WWS aside—collaboration, encouragement, and our signature “good chi”—whereas inviting new voices to hold the mission ahead with function and delight.
A Tribute to Trailblazers and Group
The thirty fifth Anniversary Summer time Soirée encompasses a Trailblazers Panel, which is able to supply a uncommon and intimate take a look at the origins of Ladies for WineSense within the early Nineteen Nineties, as founding members and longtime leaders share the challenges they confronted, the imaginative and prescient they pursued, and the group they constructed. Panelists can even pour choose library vintages from their collections, including taste and historical past to the tales behind the wines—and the ladies who made them.
The Trailblazers Panel will function:
- Sandi Belcher, proprietor and winemaker, Arns Vineyard
- Cathy Corison, proprietor and winemaker, Corison Vineyard
- Julie Johnson, proprietor and winemaker, Tres Sabores
- Michaela Rodeno, winegrower, Villa Ragazzi Vineyards and Vineyard
Occasion Particulars
Occasion: Ladies for WineSense Napa | Sonoma’s thirty fifth Anniversary Summer time Soirée
Date & Time: Sunday, July 13, 2025 | 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: Tres Sabores Vineyard | Napa Valley, CA
RSVP: Register right here
Admission
- WWS Napa | Sonoma Chapter Members: Free
- WWS Members from Different Chapters: $20
- Company: $40 (Public – women and men – warmly welcome; visitors inspired to hitch WWS!)
Ladies For WineSense is grateful for the help of its beneficiant sponsors for the thirty fifth Anniversary Summer time Soirée, whose involvement helps the continued success and influence of Ladies For WineSense Napa-Sonoma Chapter.
Sponsors embody presenting sponsor DP&F Regulation, and extra sponsors, Artwork Nouveau Wines, Idell Household Vineyards, Misplaced Valley Ranch Vineyard, group sponsor Napa Valley School, and media sponsor WineBusiness Month-to-month.
Sponsorship packages are nonetheless out there. Please electronic mail director of selling, Erin Kirschenmann, at [email protected] for extra data.
Celebrating Wine, Skilled Roundtables and Schooling
On the coronary heart of the Summer time Soirée is a celebration of native volunteer leaders and members who’ve formed Ladies for WineSense into the continual thriving, inclusive group it’s right this moment.
“We’re so proud to have fun each the legacy and shiny way forward for Ladies for WineSense within the very place it was born,” mentioned Julie Lumgair, President of the Napa-Sonoma Chapter. “This occasion isn’t just a celebration—it’s a name to motion for our members and visitors to form the way forward for wine with the identical ardour and function our founders delivered to life 35 years in the past. And naturally, we’ll do it with nice wine, heartfelt tales, and enjoyable.”
One of many hallmarks of the founding Napa-Sonoma chapter is its a long time of vibrant skilled roundtables, designed to foster schooling, mentorship, and significant connection throughout the wine trade. Prompting open dialogue amongst professionals from a number of roles, every of the distinctive roundtables supply a uncommon area the place trade friends share insights, ask questions, and be taught from one another in a collaborative, non-competitive atmosphere. These roundtables mixed with extra full chapter occasions present significant connections and delight.
The longest constantly working roundtable is the Winemaking & Viticulture Roundtable, a gathering of over 100 viticulture and winemaking professionals, together with winemakers, winery managers, cellar leads, enologists, viticulturists and hands-on homeowners —every bringing distinctive views and experiences to the desk. Programming is thoughtfully curated to mirror the evolving wants of leaders. Ana Diogo-Draper, very long time WWS member of the Winemaking & Viticulture Planning Committee famous “our success comes from constructing a really heat, supportive community and our deal with C-suite skilled abilities and recent insights that girls winemakers and viticultural professionals want however aren’t all the time simple to get of their every day work atmosphere.”
HR Roundtable Co-Chair, Amy Jullien, commented “On this milestone thirty fifth 12 months, the Napa-Sonoma chapter celebrates over 20 years of influence from the Human Assets Roundtable, an important discussion board for exploring office tradition, expertise improvement, and management methods.”
Moreover, the chapter has expanded with a brand new model of its long-standing Finance Roundtable, created in partnership with Allen Wine Group, to help skilled ladies and men navigating the complexities of vineyard finance, accounting, and enterprise technique.
These roundtables develop the group’s dedication to delivering related, specialised programming that meets the evolving wants of its members and serving the broader wine group.
Future Occasions Deliberate for thirty fifth Anniversary Yr
About Ladies for WineSense
Ladies For WineSense is a nationwide 501(c)(6) nonprofit group based in 1990 with 12 vibrant chapters throughout the U.S. It’s a group of wine professionals and fans, welcoming everybody, dedicated to skilled development and fostering the information and appreciation of wine and its cultural and historic significance.
WWS gives wine professionals and fans alike with alternatives to develop by way of occasions, roundtables, scholarships, and mentorship for all fascinated with studying and fostering relationships at varied ranges with the promotion of the conscious enjoyment of wine at our core.
Our members are ladies and men who’re vineyard homeowners, wine fans, winemakers, wine entrepreneurs, sommeliers, distributors, wholesalers and importers, credentialed shoppers, and individuals who simply love wine…and extra.
For extra data, and to grow to be a member, go to womenforwinesense.org
About Tres Sabores Vineyard
Tres Sabores (“three tastes”) was based in 1999 by winemaker and proprietor, Julie Johnson, to discover the ‘three savory flavors’ in each glass of wine: the style of the vine, the terroir, and the nice firm across the desk. The property is stuffed with rising historical past as olives and vines have been planted right here over a century in the past. Right now, the farm is a licensed natural (CCOF) grower of Cabernet, Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, and Petit Verdot, pomegranates, Meyer lemons, and Olives. We additionally elevate Guinea fowl and sheep who serve not solely as garden mowers and the cell fertilization workforce for the ranch but in addition ‘go to market’ and are served in among the most interesting farm to desk eating places within the Bay Space.
For extra data, go to www.tressabores.com
