Grape Day Harvest Dinner
Since 1992 we’ve been sharing the experience of farming with some of our friends, we call it the Tom Sawyer Approach. We need lots of helping hands during harvest and crush, and we reward our friends with a Harvest dinner in late August each year. Our friends can walk around the vineyards, visit our 50+ bird houses, taste some wine and enjoy a nice dinner.

Juan Favela
While having friends help us with harvest and crush is great, the year round maintenance and care of the vineyard could not be accomplished with out the superb help of Juan Favela’s family. Juan joined us in 1990 at the beginning of our last expansion. His knowledge and drive helped us make this a beautiful spot in Alexander Valley.

Winemaker Alex Holman
His first job in the wine industry was as the Enologist in a state of the art laboratory in one of the largest wineries in California. There they produced table wine, Christian Brothers Brandy and dessert wine. After twelve years in the Fresno area, it was finally time to move back to the Bay Area where he was born and raised. Alex landed at Paul Hobbs for the 2003 vintage, where his expertise was instrumental in setting up and establishing lab and cellar procedures for Hobbs’ new facility. Alex came to Dry Creek Vineyard in March of 2004 as one of the new additions to the winemaking team. In 2008 Jim and Eliza invited Alex to join the J. Rickards Winery team in the Alexander Valley as head winemaker. Alex’s main philosophy is to bring fine winemaking techniques used in small lot production to J. Rickards wines.

Sonoma County Wine Grape Commission

Geyserville Chamber of Commerce

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