5TH ANNUAL PINOT DAYS GRAND FESTIVAL PUBLIC TASTING
Sunday, June 28, 2009 1:00pm-5:00pm
Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center - Buchanan Street and Marina Boulevard, San Francisco
Cost: $50
Sunday's Grand Tasting will showcase 200 producers of pinot noir. This is California's largest single gathering of pinot producers, as well as its most varied. Consumers will be able to sample up to 400 pinots from every important region in California, Oregon, New Zealand, and Burgundy. As Freeman, August West and Sandler winemaker Ed Kurtzman says, "For anyone who already loves Pinot, this is an excellent opportunity to try many new wines as well as some well-established favorites. For those who don't have a lot of Pinot experience, my bet is that they'll be in love with this grape by the end of the weekend." Meet Ed, Wes Hagen, Adam Lee, Kathleen Inman, Fred Scherrer, Jeff Fink and so many others, enjoy the countless pinots and sample a variety of artisan cheeses & other specialty foods. We will feature a pinot production demonstration in which attendees can learn about the making of pinot from the vine to bottling and every step in between. We will also offer a number of pinots for auction, benefiting various charities.

PRODUCER SPOTLIGHT: ED KURTZMAN AND HIS WINES
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:00-9:00PM
Golden Gate Room, Fort Mason Center - Buchanan Street and Marina Boulevard, San Francisco
Cost: $100
Ed Kurtzman is inarguably one of the most versatile, talented winemakers out there, as his wines - Freeman, August West, and Sandler - vehemently attest. Ed is able to craft pinots that have both subtlety and impact, balance and depth. They are polished without being overdone, not unlike Ed himself who is one of the smartest, yet most humble, people in the industry. This will be a night of great wines and good company, and one not to miss.

WINEMAKERS TABLE HOP DINNER
Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:00pm-10:00pm
Pres A Vi Restaurant - One Letterman Drive, Building D Suite 150, San Francisco, Ca 94129 @ The Presidio
Cost: $150
Pres a Vi offers the perfect venue for the Pinot Days Winemakers Dinner. Executive Chef Kelly Degala's is committed to flavorful, wine-friendly cuisine, infusing each dish he creates with flavors and from around the world, including Spanish, Filipino, French, Italian and Latin American influences. We love the food and ambiance at Pres a Vi, and cannot think of a better venue for our 2009 Winemakers Table Hop Dinner.
Participating Producers
Pre-Dinner Dinner
Mayro-Murdick Wines Kanzler Vineyards
Siduri Wines Le Cadeau Vineyard
Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards Talisman Cellars
Keller Estate DeLoach Vineyards
Picket Fence Inman Family Wines
Handley Cellars Kosta Browne Winery
Clary Ranch Wines Arcadian Winery
Sojourn Cellars Lynmar WInery
Olson Ogden Wines
Bink Wines
Paul Mathew Vineyards

PINOT DAY ON WESTSIDE ROAD AND CONCERT AT C. DONATIELLO
Friday, June 26, 2009 12:30pm-8:00pm
Meet at C. Donatiello Winery at 12:15pm - 4035 Westside Road, Healdsburg, CA 95448
Cost: $110
Enjoy a day of exquisite pinot along Westside Road, culminating in a concert, tasting and barbeque. Your bus tour will include special tastings at Arista, John Tyler, Gary Farrell, and the new Thomas George (at the spectacularly remodelled Davis Bynum Winery). You will then enjoy a special tour and tasting at C. Donatiello Winery, followed by a barbeque and concert. During the barbeque you will enjoy the wines of three additional Westside Road wineries: Black Kite Cellars, Hop Kiln and Matrix Winery. This is a chance to "go deep," and we think the day embodies our tagline, "Serious Wines, Serious Fun."

NEWCOMERS IN PINOT
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:00pm-6:00pm
Golden Gate Room, Fort Mason Center - Buchanan Street and Marina Boulevard, San Francisco
Cost: $80
Meet 16 Young Turks of the pinot world whose passion is only trumped by the quality of the wines they have begun to make. Come hear their stories and enjoy the fruits of their labor. You will taste 16 different pinots in flights of four, and you will taste them blind. This is a rare chance to discover the next great pinots, and to spend time with these winemakers as they ascend to great heights.
Participating Producers
Winery Winery
Coterie Cellars C.Donatiello Winery
Thomas George Estates Kokomo Wines
Couloir Wines Spell
Expression Pinot Noir zepaltas wines
Baxter Winery Black Kite Cellars
Richard Berridge Wines Bjornstad Cellars
Kendric Vineyards Suacci Carciere Wines
Périple Wines Sand Hill Wines - Durell Vineyard
PINOT'S 2007 VINTAGE: GEMS FROM THE SOUTHERN AVAS
Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:00pm-3:00pm
The Fleet Room, Fort Mason Center - Buchanan Street and Marina Boulevard, San Francisco (Click here for map of location)
Cost: $80
Conservative critics are calling pinot's 2007 vintage California's best in decades. Those less conservative are claiming it's the best vintage in the history of California pinot. Come and taste for yourselves! This tasting will feature 16 of the most highly praised winemakers in pinot's Southern AVAs, and their phenomenal wines. Wines will be tasted blind, in four flights. Featured regions will include the Santa Maria Valley, Santa Rita Hills, Santa Lucia, Santa Barbara and Central Coast. Don't miss this debut.
Participating Producers
Winery Winery
Rusack Vineyards Pelerin Wines
Tudor Wines Landmark Vineyards
Tantara Winery Hope & Grace Wines
Clos Pepe Vineyards Testarossa Vineyards
Native9 Wine Paraiso Vineyards
Michaud Vineyard Alma Rosa Winery & Vineyards
gainey vineyard Arcadian Winery
Melville Failla
 

PINOT'S 2007 VINTAGE: GEMS FROM THE NORTHERN AVAS
Saturday, June 27, 2009 4:00pm-6:00pm
The Fleet Room, Fort Mason Center - Buchanan Street and Marina Boulevard, San Francisco
Cost: $80
Pinotphiles who have been busy tasting 2007 pinots are claiming it's the best vintage in the history of California pinot. Join us and see for yourselves. This tasting will feature 16 of the most highly acclaimed winemakers in pinot's Northern AVAs, and their spectacular wines. Wines will be tasted blind, in four flights. Featured regions will include the Russian River Valley, Carneros, Anderson Valley, Santa Cruz and the Sonoma Coast, among others. Don't miss this chance to taste what will become legendary, and hard to get, pinots.
Participating Producers
Winery Winery
Kanzler Vineyards Winderlea Vineyard and Winery
WesMar Winery Adastra Wines
Shandel's Oppenlander Vineyard Clos Saron
Abiouness Wines Tudor Wines
Dutton-Goldfield Winery Keller Estate
Picket Fence Kosta Browne Winery
Sojourn Cellars Lynmar WInery
Olson Ogden Wines Paul Mathew Vineyards
 

CELEBRATED VINEYARDS: HIRSCH, KEEFER RANCH, PISONI AND CLOS PEPE
Saturday, June 27, 2009 10:00am-12:00pm
The Fleet Room, Fort Mason Center - Buchanan Street and Marina Boulevard, San Francisco
Cost: $80
Those who love pinot noir appreciate that, moreso than any other variety of grape, it always offers up the land from which it came. And all vineyards are not equal! Come taste pinots from four of the most celebrated vineyards in California. This is what we call a horizontal tasting; you will taste four wines from each vineyard, each from a different winemaker. Meet and taste with Marcy Keefer, Wes Hagen, David Hirsch and the Pisonis, as well as twelve others (including Bob Cabral of Williams Selyem), and see what difference land makes in the glass.
Participating Producers
Winery Winery
Siduri Wines Pisoni Vineyard & Winery
Freeman Tantara Winery
Clos Pepe Vineyards Testarossa Vineyards
Hirsch Vineyard and Winery Keefer Ranch
Arcadian Winery Roessler Cellars
LIOCO Failla
Williams Selyem Winery

THE LEGENDS OF CALIFORNIA PINOT NOIR
Saturday, June 27, 2009 7:00pm-9:00pm
The Fleet Room, Fort Mason Center - Buchanan Street and Marina Boulevard, San Francisco
Cost: $100
An unparalleled opportunity to talk and taste with four of the most influential winemakers in the history of California pinot noir. Come hear the stories of Richard Sanford of Alma Rosa Winery & Vineyards (and formerly of Sanford Winery), Merry Edwards of Merry Edwards Winery whose beginnings were at Mount Eden, Francis Mahoney of Mahoney Vineyards (and formerly of Carneros Creek), and Jeffrey Patterson from the legendary Mount Eden. Taste wines that each of these esteemed winemakers feels represent his or her career, past and present.

Click HERE for tickets & more details.