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State Parks Dinner | Sept. 2022
The Mill Keeper Is the Presenting Sponsor of the Napa Valley State Parks Association Annual Harvest Dinner at Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park on September 24
To Raise Funding and Provide Support to Napa Valley’s Three Treasured State Parks.
(September 1, 2022; Napa, Calif.)— The Mill Keeper Founder Tom Gamble is pleased to announce that his newly launched multi-vintage wine brand will be the presenting sponsor of the Napa Valley State Parks Association (NVSPA) annual fundraising Harvest Dinner at Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park. Taking place Sept. 24 at 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., the Harvest Dinner will feature a multi-course farm-to-table meal prepared by Elaine Bell Catering at the foot of Bale Grist Mill’s great waterwheel. The Mill Keeper will be the exclusive wine brand poured at the event. Highlights of the evening include a live auction and milling demonstrations. With just 260 seats available, single dinner tickets are selling fast and may be purchased here for $250. All proceeds will go to NVSPA for park improvements in all three Napa Valley State Parks, trail and ground maintenance, fire prevention, technology improvements, increasing access for community members and supporting numerous outdoor education programs.
SF Chronicle May 2022
Wine ‘vintage’ means nothing to Millennials. Can this winemaker’s unorthodox plan win them over?
To make his Napa Valley bottles affordable, Tom Gamble blended wine from multiple years
In wine, the concept of vintage is sacrosanct. If wine is meant to be an expression of time and place, vintage — the year in which a wine’s grapes were harvested — is the time variable: The specific weather in a given year will influence how its wines taste. Wine experts take vintages so seriously that you may actually hear them debating, as a real-life, not made-up example, whether 1961 or 1959 was the superior year in Bordeaux.
But in Napa Valley, the tumult of fire, drought and cost increases in recent years caused one winegrower to rethink the idea of vintage-dated wine. And in this case, getting rid of the vintage turned out to be a great way to make a high-quality wine at a lower price.