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JULY 2024 | ISSUE #140

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THE PETALUMA GAP WINEGROWERS ALLIANCE promotes growers, vintners and

the distinctive wines crafted from grapes grown in the wind-driven AVA.

Paradise Vineyard at San Pablo Bay

Photo courtesy of Lisa Brayton

EVENTS

July 5, 4 PM, Food Truck Friday with Montagne Russe at Bacchus Landing

July 6, 12 PM, Live Music with the Rootstocks, Wood-Fired Pizzas at Montagne Russe

July 6, 4:30 PM, and every Thurs and Saturday throughout July, Live Music at Adobe Road Winery

July 13, 1 PM, Cline Country Bluegrass Festival

July 14, 1 PM, Culinary Tour of Mexico: The Mighty Tortilla (back by popular demand) at Keller Estate

July 19, Live Music with Christian Dupree & Hopmonk Food Truck at Cline Cellars s

July 20, 6 PM, Sunset Vineyard Dinner featuring Petaluma Gap Wines from Panther Ridge and Brooks Note Winery

July 24, 8 AM, Free Wildfire Safety & Preparedness Training to Qualify for the Ag Access Pass

July 27 & July 28, 12:30 PM, Cline Cellars Annual Lobster Feed

July 27, 5 PM, Pizza & Pinot at McEvoy Ranch

August 4, 1 PM, Thirty-Seven Wines Annual Harvest Party at Paradise Vineyard

August 7, 10 AM, Bold Predictions, Wine Advocates Push Back on Anti-Alcohol Movement, Wine Industry Leadership Free Virtual Conference

August 10, Petaluma Gap Winegrowers Wind to Wine Festival at Gambonini Family Ranch, featuring 25+ wineries, catering by Girl + the Fig, Music by Clay Bell, and more. Tickets are limited, buy now!

October 5, SCHUGTOBERFEST, Schug Winery's adaptation of the beloved Bavarian Octoberfest celebration

June 12-19, 2025, Savor the Flavors of Burgundy Wine Cruise, with the Petaluma Gap Winegrowers

Visit our winery members' websites for

additional events throughout the year.

NEWS

Celebrate Petaluma Gap Wines at the Wind to Wine Festival, article by Tina Caputo, Sonoma Magazine

Cline Family Cellars has been nominated by USA Today for Best Wine Club and Best Winery Tour. Vote today!

Hilary Cline and Other Vintners Weigh in on Young Consumer Interest in Wine and Other Issues

Alder Yarrow Finds Some Great Wine in Marin County, but all too few vineyards (paywall)

Vine to Bar Chocolate Uses Chardonnay Marc from Jackson Family Wines for its Healthy for You Dark Chocolate

Fran Leach,

Director of Hospitality, Sojourn Cellars

SPOTLIGHT

Fran Leach is a fifth generation California girl, who loved cooking with her dad and gardening with her mom. She began her career in real estate, but with a growing interest in wine and hospitality, and a connection to the wine industry through Baldacci Family Vineyards, she was able to make the right connections to launch her wine career. She met her husband, Ken, while he was playing in a band at a bar and he asked her out. They made music together and have four children who have since grown up and started their own families. Here’s her story.