About the Experience:

During our Bottle Blending Day Camp™, Judd's Hill General Manager (and prior National Board Member) will lead you through a tasting, education, and blending session. You and your group will perfect your Bordeaux-style blend using samples from four barrels of four red varietals, all from the Napa Valley appellation. You will taste the nuances of each wine and how they work together to bring out the best in each other. Once your favored blend has been decided upon, a virtual competition will happen live over Zoom, and a winning blend will be selected! Each kit includes ONE bottle of the winning blend!

Step 1: Order your $225 kit here - includes four half bottles of 2021 Napa Valley barrel samples

Step 2: After tasting and blending, we will create one bottle of the Women For WineSense masterpiece, and ship it to you, complete with a custom label!

Each blending kit contains one 375ml bottle of each of the following wines, from our barrels:
2021 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
2021 Napa Valley Merlot
2021 Napa Valley Petit Verdot
2021 Napa Valley Malbec

Also included are two 100ml graduated cylinders and a step by step user guide.

Each kit can accommodate about two or three people, depending on how efficiently you work. Full size bottle blending kits are available for $325, which can accommodate four to six people. 10% of each kit ordered will be donated back to Women For WineSense!

Be sure to order kits no later than 10/13.

Click the link to order half size or full bottle size blending kits: https://www.juddshill.com/collection/label-your-own

Additional bottles of the final blend are available for $75 each. 

*ZOOM LINK WILL BE PROVIDED VIA EMAIL BEFORE THE EVENT*

About Judd's Hill
Having started as garage winemakers in the early 1970s, Judd's Hill Winery and MicroCrush was founded in 1989 and is owned and operated by two generations of the Finkelstein family. Our motto is, “having a good time making great wine with family”.

We have made wine in The Napa Valley since the 1970s and continue to produce signature wines that are fruit-driven and concentrated while remaining well-balanced and food-friendly. Judd’s Hill was designed and built when the family purchased a 14-acre hillside vineyard in the eastern hills of Napa Valley. We moved to our current facility to increase our opportunities for welcoming guests. Taking an intimate and personal approach to our winemaking, we set out to produce no more than 3,000 cases of wine annually, an amount that allows us to enjoy a hands-on approach to every aspect of wine production. Our first release of Judd’s Hill wine was 1989 Cabernet Sauvignon.


About Liz Mercer
Liz Mercer grew up in the Napa Valley, which instilled a deep respect for the culture and lifestyle of wine and the industry supporting it. She left the area to attend Northwood University in Michigan, where she studied Finance & Business Management. She joined the wine industry in the tasting room at Sterling Vineyards in 1999. Shortly thereafter, she was drawn into direct to consumer sales via wine clubs and e-commerce at Mumm Napa, where she led a team to rebrand the wine club, establishing it as one of the largest wine clubs in the country. Nearly six years with Gallo DTC leadership included a stint on the Central Coast of California. She returned to the Napa Valley, and spent time at Round Pond Estate and Bluxome Street Winery in San Francisco. She has been with Judd's Hill since 2020.

Liz earned her Masters of Professional Studies in Food Business from the Culinary Institute of America. She now consults with a number of wineries on developing brand loyalty through DTC marketing. Liz witnessed the landscape of direct-to-consumer sales environment change drastically over the last 20+ years as the industry has matured, and is excited to be a part of developing the next generation of direct marketers.
 

By registering, you hereby authorize and grant Women For WineSense (WWS), the right to record all participants via screenshots, including chat room content, film, and/or video, along with editing the recorded conference into a photo gallery/short film/webinar (which may include other recordings and material). You also authorize and grant WWS the use for any reason of the name and likeness, voice, or other information concerning participants; and screen or place the recording/materials online, including social media.