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IN VINO CARITAS Contents Welcome To TheWineForum Sept 24–26 Napa Valley, Napa Valley Excursion 2010 USA IN VINO CARITAS Contents Welcome to Welcome to The Wine Forum 1 TheWineForum Schedule 2 Welcome to The Wine Forum’s 2010 the ultimate harvest experience by picking Napa Valley 4 Napa Valley excursion. The Wine Forum is grapes, sorting them and then blending a non-profit organization whose members some wine. Wineries Visited 12 share three attributes: they are world leaders Additional Participating Vintners 18 in their fields; they deeply appreciate fine The Napa Valley vintners have always wines; and they avidly pursue philanthropic had strong philanthropic leanings. For 30 Event Partners 26 interests. Some of our members are very years the Napa Valley auction has donated Advisory Board Members 28 knowledgeable about fine wines and hold generous sums of money to worthy causes. vast collections. Most however, just enjoy On this trip, the Wine Forum members For Your Notes 30 wine for the sheer pleasure of sharing meet the originators and current organizers something special with friends and family. of the Napa auction to join forces where appropriate. The Wine Forum is assisted The Wine Forum holds two or three in our philanthropic endeavours by exclusive events per year in the most Social Investors Partners, the Swiss-based prestigious vineyard venues around the philanthropic investment advisory firm. world. Napa Valley holds some of the This unique blend of Napa experience, world’s most treasured wines. Nevertheless, the Wine Forum innovation and Swiss the spirit of entrepreneurialism is very organization will doubtless result in some much alive and we will see that by not only interesting initiatives. meeting the “traditional” innovators of the region but also by meeting the “next wave” Our special thanks extend to all the of superstars. But Napa is more than just the winemakers, owners and hosts who have labels. In most cases, vineyards were born made this program possible. We offer a through hard work, sheer determination special note of thanks to Bettina Sichel who and a will to see quality find its rightful organized the event so meticulously. place. Keeping in this spirit of a hands-on tradition and coupled with the fact we are We look forward to the next few days with visiting at just the right time of year, we you and hope you enjoy them as thoroughly intend to have our members participate in as we enjoyed devising the program. David Spreng Vidhi Tambiah Co-founder Co-founder — September 24, 2010 Schedule Fri, Sept 24 | Napa Superstars: Present and Future 6:00 pm Reception: Woodside Room, Meadowood 7:00 Dinner: Woodside Room, Meadowood Sat, Sept 25 | A Taste of Napa Valley 9:30 am The Napa Valley Reserve: Seminar and tasting with Paul Photo: Jason Tinacci Roberts, Master Sommelier and Estate Director, BOND 11:30 Depart the Napa Valley Reserve for Araujo Estate Philanthropy Guides 11:45 Araujo Estate: Tour and tasting Kipper Blakeley is a partner at Social Amish Mehta is a partner of Vector 12:45 pm Araujo Estate: Picnic lunch in the Olive Grove with Investors Partners, where he oversees a Capital, a San Francisco-based private Bart and Daphne Araujo portfolio of projects around the world for equity firm managing over $2 billion of 2:15 Depart Araujo Estate for Joseph Phelps Vineyards the company’s national and international capital focused on technology investing. clientele. Kipper has been involved with Amish currently serves on the Boards 2:30 Joseph Phelps Vineyards: Tour and tasting with Bill Phelps philanthropy, both as a donor and as an of Certara, Corel, Printronix, and 4:00 Depart Joseph Phelps Vineyards for Meadowood implementing partner of programs, for Register.com. Prior to joining Vector, 6:30 Depart Meadowood for Harlan Estate the past 17 years. Before joining Social Amish was CEO of CommercialWare Investors Partners, he worked closely with and oversaw its spinout and sale to 7:00 Harlan Estate: Dinner with Bill Harlan and Paul Roberts Mechai Viravaidya, a well-known “social DataVantage. Amish previously spent 10:00 Depart Harlan Estate for Meadowood entrepreneur” as an International Advisor several years at General Atlantic for the Population and Community Partners and McKinsey & Company. Sun, Sept 26 | A Unique Blend of Wine and Philanthropy Development Association (PDA). Following Amish’s philanthropic activities include the sale of the family business, Kipper has involvement with the Global Fund for 8:00 am The Napa Valley Reserve: Harvest Experience also been involved with setting up the Children, a philanthropic intermediary Part 1: The Sorting Line family foundation. Kipper’s private sector that makes small grants to innovative, Part 2: The Art of the Blend experience includes working at Accenture community-based organizations working Part 3: Final Blend Taste-off in Colombia and five years of international with some of the world’s most vulnerable 12:45 pm Depart Meadowood for Staglin Family Vineyard business development for the family children and youth. Amish is The Wine 1:00 Staglin Family Vineyard: Lunch with Garen and Shari business, Extech Instruments Corporation, Forum’s Philanthropic Committee Chair. Staglin in newly restored Steckter House a printer manufacturer in the United States. The World Economic Forum named He earned a master’s degree from The Amish a Technology Pioneer and Young 2:30 Philanthropy round table with Napa vintners active in Fletcher School in his hometown of Boston, Global Leader. Amish has a MBA with healthcare, preservation and education initiatives where he supplemented his business distinction from the Harvard Business 4:00 Depart Staglin Family Vineyard for Meadowood courses with classes on microcredit, refugee School and graduated summa cum laude, 6:30 Depart Meadowood for Colgin Cellars issues, and nonprofit management. He from the University of Pennsylvania with currently sits on the European Advisory a BS in Chemical Engineering and a BS in 7:00 Colgin Cellars: Dinner with Ann Colgin and Joe Wender Group of The Fletcher School. Economics from the Wharton School. 2 3 Napa Valley (Extracted by kind permission of the Napa Valley Vintners) History and Timeline Early Napa than 140 wineries in operation, including To the Wappo Indians who first inhabited Schramsberg (founded in 1862), Beringer the valley, “Napa” meant a land of plenty. (1876) and Inglenook (1879). Before long, Spawning salmon filled the waterways, however, the rapid expansion of the new clouds of migrating waterfowl darkened the wine industry saw prices plummet amidst skies and the valley floor served as home a sea of surplus grapes, and the arrival of to wildcats, elk, black bear and grizzlies. phylloxera dealt vintners a stunning blow, Wild grapes also grew in abundance, but it as much of the valley’s vineyard acreage fell took early settlers such as George Calvert victim to the destructive root louse. Yount to recognize the valley’s potential for cultivating wine grapes. Establishing Prohibition the first local homestead in what is now An even greater threat to Napa Valley’s Yountville in 1836, Yount was the first to wine business arrived in 1920, with the plant vineyards in the valley. Other early enactment of Prohibition. Vineyards were pioneers included John Patchett, who abandoned and many winemakers found planted the first commercial vineyard; other trades during the next 14 years, Dr. George Crane, who promoted the with a handful of wineries continuing planting of grapevines through a series of to operate by producing sacramental newspaper articles; and Hamilton Walker wines. With the repeal of Prohibition in Crabb, who experimented with more than 1933, Napa Valley’s wine industry began 400 grape varieties. its renaissance: a period of recovery, then tremendous expansion and, finally, in Charity Present and Future The Pioneers recent years, refinement. A new chapter in Napa Valley’s history Today, Napa Valley is home to Charles Krug is credited with establishing was opened in 1981, when the first Napa approximately 400 wineries and numerous Napa Valley’s first commercial winery Napa Valley Vintners Valley Wine Auction was sponsored at more brands. Its growers and vintners in 1861, and by 1889 there were more The early 1940s marked an important Meadowood resort. Over the years, this combine cutting-edge science with point in the Napa Valleys’ wine history, Napa Valley Vintners-sponsored celebration traditional techniques, and its reputation when a group of vintners came together in of Napa Valley wine and food has become for producing world-class wines is 1944 to share ideas on grape growing and the “world’s most successful” charity wine firmly established in an ever-growing winemaking amidst a convivial atmosphere event, drawing participants from around the global market. of shared camaraderie, good food and globe. The auction has given $90 million wine. This group laid the foundation for to local health care, youth programs and the Napa Valley Vintners, a dynamic trade affordable housing since 1981. organization dedicated to advancing Napa Charles Krug Valley’s wines both domestically and abroad. 4 5 Geography Bounded on both sides by mountains, the that are singular in their intensity, complexity Changes in sea level caused San Pablo Napa Valley stretches approximately 30 miles and balance. Bay to alternately advance and retreat over in a northwesterly direction, its width ranging the southern part of the valley several from five miles at the widest point near the Several different microclimates and a wide times. This resulted in the deposition city of Napa to just a mile where the valley array of soil profiles mean that different of bay sediment (clays and sand) as soil narrows near the town of Calistoga. vineyards produce grapes that are unique in parent material in the southern valley. The style and character — but uniformly high bedrock varies from coarse sandstones to Bisecting the valley is the Napa River, which in quality.
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