Valckenberg Portfolio Tasting
Importer Flight Night! Join us as we welcome 12 visiting producers from Germany, Champagne, and Italy from the P.J. Valckenberg portfolio. Valckenberg has been an ambassador for the best wines in Germany since 1786, and have added a few estates from France, Italy, and Spain along the way. We're super excited to have the producers here in person to talk about their wines. This will be a walk-around tasting from 5:30-7:30. Tickets will be limited, snag yours up quickly. Featured producers: Künstler, Prinz Salm, Johannishof, Schloss Vaux, Pflüger, Kopp, Graf Neipperg, Joh. Jos. Prüm, Valckenberg, Carl Graff, Lombard Champagne, and Baron Longo from Alto Adige, Italy.
Freeman Flight Night
We are incredibly lucky to have Akiko Freeman with us. Freeman is a pioneer of extreme cool climate winemaking. While many wineries go for power, Akiko's wines are celebrated for their poise and balance which is why they’ve been served at the White House and at state dinners in Tokyo. Rather than a current vintage lineup, we are excited to feature a vertical of their beautiful Gloria Estate vineyard in Green Valley.
Hamel Flight Night
As Director of Winegrowing, John Hamel is committed to producing wines that reflect the character of the terroir. The Hamel family worked with legendary soil specialist, Pedro Parra, to meticulously map out their terroir, meter by meter, to plant and farm the land with precision. Using this knowledge, John and his team apply a micro-terroir-based winegrowing approach, adapting vineyard and winemaking practices specifically to the volcanic soils across Hamel’s vineyards. John has also led the transition of the vineyards to dry farming and implemented organic and biodynamic vineyard management practices. The wines are elegant but with an understated power that truly show the plots they’re from.
Nisi Flight Night
A brand new label from young winemaker Adam Edelman, trekking all the way down to Santa Barbara from his home in St. Helena to craft the ocean influenced wines he wants to drink. After spending over a decade helping craft some of the north coast’s most renowned wines at Aubert and Realm Cellars, Adam decided to embark on his own journey, crafting delicarte, ocean influenced wines. We are absolutely obsessed with his first release, and he’s bringing his 2025 barrel samples, which somehow show even more promise than what’s already
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.