3rd Annual Healdsburg Sake Crawl
Get ready for the 3rd Annual Healdsburg Sake Crawl. The fifth taste team has mapped out a few incredible stops around the Plaza. Whether you're a sake newbie or a seasoned pro, this crawl is the perfect way to explore great flavors and have a blast. Don’t miss out on this sake experience!
Kistler Flight Night
Featuring a flight from one of Sonoma’s most iconic producers, with longtime winemaker Jason Kesner. Jason is joining us for the evening, pouring a lineup of library wines alongside current vintage.
Zialena Flight Night
In 2016, siblings Mark and Lisa Mazzoni broke ground on their new winery outside of Geyserville, but this wasn’t a brand new project, it was a continuation of their family legacy dating back in Sonoma to the 1800s. Mark and Lisa are fourth-generation stewards of the Mazzoni estate. While their family sold fruit to icons like Jordan and Kendall-Jackson for decades, Mark returned to the estate and launched a new label to craft their own exceptional wines from their best fruit. The Zialena wines represent a distinct, lighter style, owing largely to their beautifully designed winery which houses massive concrete fermentation tanks. The zinfandels in particular uniquely receive no new oak, giving a light, aromatic freshness to the wines that is unlike any other zin in the area. We’re excited to pour several vintages tonight and have Mark here to discuss his process.
Xander Soren Flight Night
Prior to releasing his wine brand, Xander spent over 20 years working on digital music technology with Apple, where he was the co-creator of GarageBand, and contributed to iTunes, iPod and iPhone product development. Xander has been applying the same obsessive design sensibility to his wines, beginning with a tiny production in 2012. The Maison team has been honored to be a small part of this process of extreme iteration, having blind tasted the XS wines hundreds of times over the years prior to their first commercial release in Japan in 2023, and in California in 2024. Always tasted alongside world class producers, we often picked Xander’s wines as our favorite. After years of worldly pinot noir comparisons, we are beyond excited to host a launch party for Xander’s first ever chardonnay. We’ll be pouring a flight all evening, including several pinots and the brand new chardonnay.
Small Vines Flight Night
Before Small Vines was a celebrated label, Paul and Kathryn Sloan were the experts everyone called to plant the finest vineyards in Northern California. They have become renowned experts in high touch, labor intensive farming that creates world class chardonnays and pinots, taking inspiration from high density planting techniques in Burgundy. Their incredibly complex and delicate wines are a direct reflection of the extreme care they have taken from the earliest planning stages of their vineyards. And they also happen to be amazing people. We are so excited to pour a curated flight of their estate pinot noirs and chardonnays.