50th Committee Meeting – January 7th – Pedroncelli Winery – 3:00pm
Committee Members: Janae Franicevic, Julie St. John, Helen Sharrocks, Damy Tamburrino, Rebecca Germolus, Mysty Stewart, Debbie Osborn, Beth Costa. Katie Ambrosi missed this one.
Ideally, we want to offer something for every month during 2026 – our 50th Anniversary Celebration Year.
January 17-18: Winter Wineland – two days
February 14: Wine Love Wine Trail – conversation hearts, stickers, Valentines
March 7-8: Barrel Tasting Weekend – Sat & Sun, plus some bonus tasting at some participating wineries on Friday
April 2026: 50th Anniversary selfie stations. Beth to print and mail LARGE versions of our 50th logo and send to all Wine Road wineries to display along with instructions for visitors to take a “selfie” and share on social – tag us and enter to win….? something Mysty can tell us the #’s tags to use
May 16: Spring Wine Trail – think…white, rosé, sparkling – going forward we will only be listing the participating wineries and the “theme” not the wines.
June 13: The Good Old Days….FREE Tasting on Saturday! Walk-in tasting, no reservations, no tasting fees, 3 complimentary wines at participating wineries.
This will also be a page on our website – we need a name – what are we calling this? We have to distinguish between “Sip into the Weekend” which is free every Thursday and Friday…could be different wineries for this ONE DAY offer.
July 11: Summer Wine Trail – perfect wines for your summer BBQ
August 2026: $50 Tasting Pass, good Aug. 1-31, at participating wineries, 1 pass per person, each winery may be visited once using the pass. Customer buys online and shows the August Tasting Pass on their phone at the wineries they visit. List of participating wineries online and ideally on their ticket too, so there is no confusion. This could run until Sept. 19th and our big Grand Tasting.
Sept. 19: 50th Celebration – GRAND Tasting – Foppiano 4:00-7:00pm. Lively music (people may dance), restaurants to offer tasty apps, silent auction, walk around tasting. Possibly offer private label wine for each ticket buyer (see how much wine we get donated), Silent auction – categories: magnums, tasting experiences, tours, meals (lunch with winemaker etc) – possibly donate 1/2 to Redwood Empire Food Bank, 1/2 to Healdsburg Museum – they may have display table at the event also. Consider Pure Luxury shuttle from Windsor Train station to and from event. Hire professional photographer, offer a “mystery wine wall” as a money maker for Wine Road.
Oct 2026: Simply throw-back to a casual day, out wine tasting and enjoying a picnic. Create page on website of wineries that offer/welcome folks to come buy a bottle of wine and enjoy the picnic area. Need a name for this also. Have this tie in with Come Over October
Nov. 7-8: Wine & Food Affair – we will offer a VIP ticket for this weekend – including a happy hour and breakfast
Dec. 5: Holiday Wine Trail + Market – $50 per person, one day of wine tasting…plus shopping!
ASAP – find vendor where we can get some “print on demand” t-shirts to sell on our website – maybe during Barrel Tasting (Wineland ??) anything else we want to offer with the 50th logo?
Starting with Winter Wineland our event glasses will have the 50th logo.
For the 50th Grand Tasting – consider printing a multi-page “brochure” to highlight our 50 year timeline and specific accomplishments, achievements, awards, members etc. Could also include the list of wineries pouring that night and any sponsors – restaurants, pure lux, etc.
Need to set a date for a FULL MEMBERSHIP group photo and a member “party” not a meeting – just fun! Invite former members ??
Any other thoughts or ideas share with everyone – we’ll try to make it all happen.
Any fun tag lines or names you come up with for April, June, October – that would be helpful – we’ll need to create a page on our website and have some sort of descriptive title.
Next Meeting – find location in Windsor – Wednesday March 18th 3:00pm
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