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The HALL Harvest Retreat is an immersive three-day winemaking experience led by Vintners Craig and Kathryn Hall and winery President Mike Reynolds created exclusively for our wine club members, Partners, and their guests. Over the course of the retreat, you will participate in an authentic ‘hands-on’ harvest experience at our Estate Vineyard in St. Helena at the peak of harvest—from the vineyard through fermentation. You’ll also meet other HALL, WALT, and BACA enthusiasts from all over the country as we share spectacular harvest meals, educational and vertical tastings of many of our most precious wines, and fun and engaging wine-related activities.
HALL Harvest Retreat 2023 Agenda (Subject to change)
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Introduction to our Wine Varieties and Growing Regions
Hosts Craig and Kathryn Hall and Mike Reynolds will welcome you to the Harvest Immersion and lead a tasting of the core grape varieties and growing regions from which we produce HALL, WALT, and BACA wines.
Wines Tasted during Reception:
6 pm: Dinner
We’ll welcome you with a spectacular Harvest Dinner at Hall St. Helena Winery including vertical of Clos Pepe and Kathryn Hall in large format bottles.
Wines Tasted:
Monday, October 2, 2023
We will harvest grapes from the 2022 vintage. Your experience will be led by Don Munk, Director of Vineyards, HALL.
Attire: Work Clothes. Harvesting grapes is physical, dirty and dusty work,so dress appropriately. Napa Valley is known for its cool mornings so please layer clothing and wear tennis shoes or boots.
9:30 am: Depart to HALL St. Helena 10:00 am: Sort grapes and participate in fermentation, pump-overs, and tasting of fermenting 2022 wines. 11:30am: Harvest Lunch | HALL St. Helena
Wines tasted:
1–3 pm: Hall Wines Mountain Vineyard Verticals |HALL St. Helena
Vertical Tasting of Stags Leap, Mount Veeder, and Howell Mountain wines. Experience a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to taste a curated, library flight of our most coveted mountain vineyards led by our winemaking team.
5:00: Festive Barbeque and music | HALL St. Helena
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Wines Tasted: TBD Based on Vineyard visit.
9:00 am: Board Bus for HALL Winery 9:30 am: Blending Exercise
Participants will be broken into teams and each team will blend Cabernet Sauvignon from some of the best sub-appellations of the Napa Valley. Led by the winemaking team.
1 pm: Pinot Noir Appellation Tasting
Guests will explore the differences between terroir, clone, and production techniques as we taste taste and compare a horizontal from the 2017 vintage.
3 pm: Free Time
6 pm: Finale Dinner and Awards – St. Helena Winery
We’ll send you off with a spectacular meal under the Stars with your friends – old and new. There will be an award ceremony for our ‘Winemakers' in training, and we’ll feature a flight of library and large format bottles from our cellar.
Wines Served:
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Highlights from our 2022 Harvest Retreat:
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HALL Harvest Retreat 2022
Agenda (Subject to change)
Sunday, September 25th, 2022
Mid-day: Participants Arrive in the Napa Valley
4:00-6:00pm: Welcome Reception |Hall St. Helena
Hosts Craig and Kathryn Hall and Mike Reynolds will welcome you to the Harvest Immersion and lead a tasting of the core grape varieties and growing regions from which that we produce at HALL, WALT, BACA wines from.
Monday, September 26th, 2022
6:00 am: Coffee and Muffins at Hall St. Helena.
6:30 am: Buses depart for Vineyard.
7:00 am: HARVEST!
9 am: Depart to HALL St. Helena
9:30 am: Sort grapes and participate in fermentation, pump overs, and tasting of fermenting 2022 wines.
Noon: Harvest Lunch | HALL St. Helena
1 – 3 pm: Hall Wines Verticals |HALL St. Helena
Vertical Tasting of Diamond Mountain, Mount Veeder, and Sacrashe wines. Experience once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to taste a curated, library flight of our most coveted mountain vineyards led by our winemaking team.
6:00pm: Festive Barbeque and music |HALL St. Helena
Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
7:00 am: Coffee and Breakfast.
7:30 am: Buses leave for Zinfandel Vineyard
8:00 am: Vineyard tour, tasting, and discussion of Zinfandel History and diversity
9:00 am: Board Bus for HALL Winery
9:30 am: Blending Exercise
Noon: Lunch
1pm: Pinot Noir Immersion Tasting
3pm: Free Time
6 pm: Finale dinner at Hall St. Helena and Awards Ceremony
