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Local Event
Cost: $75
Smith-Madrone Winery welcomes guests to their 48th anniversary open house on Saturday, October 6 from 12:00 noon until 4:00 p.m. The winery will be pouring freshly harvested grape juice, library wines and current releases; many of the older wines to be tasted (and available for purchase) are from large format bottles. The event includes live music and tasty food and will take place inside the winery and at the winery’s picturesque lawn with 200-degree views out over the Napa Valley, looking north, east and south. Tickets are $75.00/person and must be purchased in advance. The winery is located at 4022 Spring Mountain Road, about a 15 minute drive from ‘downtown’ St. Helena.
Here’s a look at last year’s festivities, with founders/winemakers Stu Smith and Charles Smith opening large-format bottles of library Cabernet Sauvignons: https://www.youtube.com/embed/vI2fsKkzaBU?ecver=2
Current releases are 2015 Riesling, 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon, 2015 Chardonnay and 2012 Cook’s Flat Reserve. Library wines to be offered will include 2006 Riesling and 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon among others.
Smith-Madrone was established in the spring of 1971 when brothers Stuart and Charles Smith cleared the forest and reclaimed an abandoned vineyard. They have meticulously farmed Chardonnay, Riesling, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc in the ensuing years. They built the winery and they make the wine: “we certainly are the definition of ‘authentic’ and ‘artisanal,’” they explain. Stuart’s son Sam Smith is the Assistant Winemaker.
Smith-Madrone is one of the few entirely estate-vineyard mountain wineries in the Napa Valley. The grapes grow at the top of Spring Mountain at elevations between 1,200 and 1,900 feet on steep slopes ranging up to 35%. The vines are planted in red “Aiken” soil which is derived from weathered volcanic materials and sedimentary rock.
The Smith family are the descendants of the Fetherolf family, German farmers from the Palatinate region, who came to America on the Thistle of Glasgow in 1730. The winery's name came as an acknowledgement of their hard work in establishing the winery and to the Madrone trees which are plentiful on the property.
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