46 PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM GO BACK TO SCHOOL Want to learn more about how to make wine? In addition to Harvest Crush Camp, the Wine Foundry offers Vineyard Camp during harvest season, inviting participants to learn about grapegrowing onsite at a local vineyard. To learn more about blending, sign up at Raymond Vineyards in St. Helena or Meadowcroft Wines at Cornerstone Sonoma for a chance to blend, bottle and label your own wine to take home. Bouchaine in Napa also offers education-driven experiences. Sample wines aged in concrete eggs, large French oak casks, acacia barrels and clay amphorae to learn how the vessel affects aroma and flavor during the Vine to Vessel tasting or find out how fierce raptors help to protect the grapes during the harvest (and have a falcon photo op to boot!) with the Falconry in the Garden experience. HIT THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT Festival season extends from springtime through fall in Napa and Sonoma, unlocking access to some of the region’s best wine, food and entertainment—all in one place. Among the standouts are the Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience (May 15 to 18), encompassing celebrity chef-prepared winery luncheons, curated wine seminars, Guy Fieri’s legendary Big Bottle Party at The Matheson, the Vintner’s Plaza PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF: JORDAN WINERY / MEADOWCROFT WINES / KENDALL JACKSON {due west}
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