Relish Culinary Adventures, Sonoma County's premier culinary events business, is partnering with the Healdsburg Lodging Coalition, a collection of Healdsburg’s finest B&Bs, inns and hotels, to offer this three-day Artisan Food and Wine Tour. Limited to 12 people, this package includes exclusive tours, visits and tastes of the Sonoma County food and wine scene. In addition to our exclusive tour activities, you will have ample free time to pamper yourself at one of Healdsburg's spas, sample exceptional wine country restaurants, or just soak up the local color in the Healdsburg town plaza.
Day One: Welcome
The first evening we'll kick off our tour with
a welcome reception at the Relish Culinary Center featuring regional wine and appetizers created by Relish Culinary Adventures.
Get to know the other participants while sampling gourmet delicacies
made from local seasonal ingredients.
Day Two: Wine
In the morning,
we'll head straight to the vineyards with Vine Rover Tours for an open-air
jeep tour through hillside vineyards owned by Robert Young Estate Winery, enjoying the spectacular views of Alexander Valley below
and learning about grape growing
practices from vintner Jim Young. After the tour, we'll experience a private tasting of Robert Young Estate wines before we share a wine
country picnic lunch at the historic home of Jim and Kathleen Young.
After lunch, we'll head over to Dry Creek Valley to Lambert Bridge Winery, known for its luscious
Bordeaux-style blends, where you will become "winemaker
for a day." You will be given access to the winemaker's tools
for blending, bottling, corking and labeling
wine. Lambert Bridge Winemaker Jill Davis will lead you as you blend
barrel samples to create a bottle of your very own Bordeaux
blend cuvée to take home as a wonderful memento from your visit.
After the blending, you'll enjoy
a VIP tasting of Lambert Bridge wines before you return to your lodging for a free evening to explore Healdsburg’s unique shops, restorative spas and
outstanding restaurants.
Day Three: Food
In the morning, we’ll venture to
Bellwether Farms in the dairy region of western Sonoma County for an exclusive
visit and tour with
owners Cindy and Liam Callahan during morning cheese making. We’ll experience first-hand their passion for traditional cheese making
methods, observe the process of artisan cheese maing and, of course, enjoy tastes of
their award-winning sheep and cow milk cheese and yogurt.
We’ll return to Healdsburg to the new Relish Culinary Center for a hands-on cooking workshop
with a talented and engaging local chef.
Under chef's guidance, you'll create a four-course gourmet lunch, featuring
Bellwether cheese and other local produce, meat and seafood. We’ll share the
resulting feast for lunch with local artisan wines.
That evening we’ll celebrate the
culmination of our food and wine adventure with a six-course
wine-pairing dinner by Dry Creek Kitchen in the intimate
Hotel Healdsburg Wine Library.
For questions about tour activities and other details, please contact Relish at 877.759.1004.
2009 Dates
Monday - Wednesday
July 6 - 8 October 26 - 28
