Domaine Dujac and Snowden Vineyards with Diana Snowden Seysses – Thursday 26th March

As you might be able to glean from her name, Diana Snowden Seysses has a foot on both sides of the transatlantic wine divide.

Growing up in Napa Valley, she studied viticulture and oenology at University of California, Davis, spending two summers as a grape sampler at Robert Mondavi Winery. It was there that she met her future husband, Jeremy Seysses of Burgundy’s famed Domaine Dujac.

After further experience at wineries in California and France, including, Araujo, Ramey, Fleur de Boüard and Domaine Leflaive, in 2003 Diana joined her husband to make the wine at Dujac. But when her father reported a rampant Brettanomyces infection at her family’s Napa Valley estate two years later, she was persuaded back to California. Since then, she has split her time between both wineries.

The Snowden family has owned vineyards in Napa since 1955, though for the first half-century, it mostly sold its grapes, to a range of producers – notably Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in the 1980s, and then the likes of Silver Oak, Ramey, Viader and Caymus in the ‘90s. Since Diana has taken the helm, the range of wines has grown in both quantity and quality, and today her single-vineyard, organic, minimal-intervention approach yields some of Napa’s most elegant, site-specific Cabernets.

We are thrilled to welcome Diana to compare and contrast Burgundian and Californian approaches to terroir, sustainability and winemaking gleaned from her 20+ years in both camps. An expansive and forthcoming host, Diana will hold forth on a range of topics, while presenting a line-up of wines from Snowden Vineyards, two cuvées from Dujac, and the latest vintage of the popular Provence rosé from the Triennes winery, founded by her father-in-law Jacques Seysses and Aubert de Villaine of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.

The wines we will be tasting:
2024 Rosé, Triennes, IGP Var, Provence
2024 Sauvignon Blanc, Sunninghill, Snowden Vineyards, Napa Valley
2021 Morey-Saint-Denis, Domaine Dujac
2022 Nuits-Saint-Georges, 1er Cru Aux Cras, Dujac Fils & Père
2021 Merlot, Cousins, Snowden Vineyards, Napa Valley
2019 Cabernet Franc, Melchior Kemper Vineyard, Snowden Vineyards, Napa Valley
2022 Cabernet Sauvignon, The Ranch, Snowden Vineyards, Napa Valley
2022 Cabernet Sauvignon, Los Ricos Vineyard, Snowden Vineyards, Napa Valley
2022 Cabernet Sauvignon, Brothers Vineyard, Snowden Vineyards, Napa Valley
2018 Cabernet Sauvignon, Brothers Vineyard, Snowden Vineyards, Napa Valley
2005 Snowden Reserve, Snowden Vineyards, Napa Valley

Thursday 26th March
St. James’s Room
18:30 – Welcome reception
19:00 – Masterclass starts
20:30 Masterclass ends

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