Afternoon Brief, January 5th

Land Trust of Napa County Agrees to Buy Controversial Walt Ranch Property from Hall Wines: Attempts by owners Craig and Kathryn Hall to transform the wooded ranch into a vineyard were at the epicenter of a wider battle between open space and grape growing in Napa County...

California Dreamin’: Kathryn Hall Harvest Celebration Returns Saturday, September 10 

(ST. HELENA, CALIFORNIA – June 14, 2022) –HALL Napa Valley, one of the leading luxury Cabernet Sauvignon producers in the Country, has announced a date for its annual Kathryn Hall […]

Winery will contribute hundreds of wine barrels to anyone in the  community to be painted and dispersed throughout St. Helena  (St. Helena, CA – March 17, 2021) — HALL Wines, a leading luxury set of wine  brands owned by Craig and Kathryn Hall, is donating wine barrels to be used  throughout the towns of St. […] The post Hall Wines to Donate 300 Wine Barrels to St. Helena Community   appeared first on Wine Industry Advisor. Url:https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2021/03/17/hall-wines-donate-300-barrels-st-helena-community?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hall-wines-donate-300-barrels-st-helena-community Published Date:Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:01:58 +0000 

Vintner Kathryn Hall, owner of HALL, WALT and BACA Wines with five tasting room locations in Napa, Sonoma and Healdsburg, is launching a fundraising campaign this Friday during HALL’s regularly scheduled celebrity Happy Hour series on Facebook Live to aid in fire relief. Hall plans on hosting the Happy introducing local firefighters to helped preserve and protect Napa Valley over the last […] The post HALL Winery Owner Kathryn Hall to Host Virtual Fundraiser Friday to Help Aid in Napa Valley Fire Relief appeared first on Wine Industry Advisor. Url:https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2020/10/14/kathryn-hall-virtual-fundraiser?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kathryn-hall-virtual-fundraiser Published Date:Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:33:26 +0000 

  Posted by Laura Ness of Spirited Magazine | Mar 31, 2020 | Packaging, Equipment, Wine, Production    You have to be just slightly natters to engage in a livelihood that can literally blow up on you—and yet, the sisterhood (and brotherhood) of bubbles runs deep. That’s probably why it’s considered the ne plus ultra of winemaking. There are many ways to sparkle a beverage, but méthode Champenoise is considered the highest form of sparkling art. It’s a process that’s been painstakingly perfected, by hand, over the centuries. It requires two entirely separate fermentations, the second of which occurs in the bottle, which is where the magic happens. Says Todd Graff, winemaker and general manager at Frank Family Vineyards in Napa Valley, “The secondary fermentation in the bottle is the trickiest part, because however many bottles you’re making, each is an individual fermentation.” Méthode Champenoise is time consuming, filled with repetitive tedium, complicated (often by many months o