"The Vigneron for a Day" The flagship vineyard and cellar experience places you directly into the high-stakes world of a winemaker during the peak of harvest. This program transitions folks from the field to the crush pad, giving them raw, tactile access to every step of production from vine to tank.
This intensive experience commands premium attention to detail and is a high-touch, small-group masterclass.
Early bird gets the grape
We begin in the morning when ambient temperatures are low, protecting the fruits chemistry and keeping the grapes crisp.
Wine starts in the Vineyard: Equipped with harvest shears and picking buckets we will hand harvest fruit for fermentation. Guiding you on field-sorting protocol: clipping only clean, ripe clusters while dropping sunburned, dehydrated, or mold-affected fruit directly onto the ground.
Many Hands Make Light Work: Working as a group to fill a traditional 1/2-ton macro-bin. This provides a physical understanding of the immense labor and rapid pacing required to clear a vineyard block before the afternoon heat sets in.
Crush Pad Precision
Moving the harvested fruit across the estate for destemming, to experience the final line of quality control before fermentation.
MOG Patrol: Working as a group along a vibrating sorting table we will be removing "Material Other than Grapes" (MOG), including stems, leaves, and under ripe/over ripe fruit.
Destemming versus Crushing: Here we evaluate how the destemmer separates berries from the rachis. Inspecting the output to evaluate the balance of whole berries versus crushed fruit entering the fermentation vessel.
Wine Is Magic
Transition into the fermentation cellar to manage active, bubbling fermentations using two primary methods of cap management.
Punchdowns:
Homogenizing the fermenter after crushing and while initially fermenting is critical to fermentation kinetics.
September 19th, 2026
9AM-4PM
$100 per person includes Lunch, complimentary tour and tasting of estate wines.
Private Events
If you are interested in learning more about our offerings, please fill out the request form and we will contact you to discuss details.
Request informationMore information
Party size
1 ticket