The Virtual Tasting Series
4 Top Wineries, 9-Plus Wines Delivered to Your Door
Looking for an elevated wine tasting experience? This is your chance to get the best of Napa Valley brought straight to your home. For PaperCity CellarSelect's first-ever virtual tasting event, we're teaming up with Jason Wise, award-winning filmmaker of the Somm documentaries and the founder of SOMM TV, to bring wine lovers an unparalleled Napa Valley wine experience. Go behind the scenes with top vintners and winemakers with renowned Napa Valley sommelier Scotti Stark serving as your expert guide.
This virtual tasting is a rare opportunity to gain access to exclusive wine buying opportunities. Experience some of the Valley’s finest labels and wines otherwise only available by direct purchase from notable Napa Valley wineries right in your own home.
Tasting kits with pours of each wine featured in the videos, along with pairing accoutrements, will be delivered to your door on the day of the virtual tasting to complete the experience. Stream all four episodes at once for the ultimate fine wine night or spread out the fun with multiple tastings in the comfort of your own home.
Participating Wineries
Behrens Family Winery is a boutique winery in the truest sense. Owned by Les Behrens and Lisa Drinkward, who’ve made wine under the Behrens & Hitchcock label since 1993, Behrens Family Winery produces small lots of six or seven wines a year at its winery perched high on top of Spring Mountain in Napa Valley. Each wine is a low tech labor of love: crushed into one-ton T-bins, punched down by hand, gently transferred to barrel, and bottled unfined and unfiltered. One only has to look at Les and Lisa’s hands during harvest to know their wines are truly “hand-crafted.”
Featured in Episode
- Les Behrens & Lisa Drinkward, Owners
Included in Your Tasting Kit
- 2016 Head in the Clouds Cabernet Sauvignon (84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Petit Verdot | $125/bottle
- 2017 Lucy, I'm Home! (58% Merlot, 28% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Petit Verdot) | $135/bottle, $285/magnum
- 2016 Sainte Fumée (44% Syrah, 22% Cinsault, 17% Grenache, 17% Petite Sirah) | $65/bottle, $145/magnum
Purchasing Information: Email robin@behrensfamilywinery.com
Di Costanzo is a family winery committed to sustainable, heritage winemaking and to living well with the world and those around us.
In 2010 with nervous hands and steady hearts, the first chapter of their dream began with the debut vintage of Di Costanzo Cabernet Sauvignon, a single vineyard wine. Their trademark style is Cabernet with tension, with freshness and a varietally true reflection of the vineyard.
Featured in Episode
- Erin Di Costanzo, Proprietor
Included in Your Tasting Kit
- Di Costanzo Caldwell Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Coombsville 2018 | $95
- DI CO Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2018 | $55
To purchase, register at https://www.mdcwines.com/register. Once logged in, click ALLOCATIONS to view and purchase these wines.
Cimarossa 'Red Hilltop' is one of Howell Mountain's most scenic estates, with terraced vineyards and olive groves climbing the hillsides. With influences from his Italian heritage, owner Dino Dina and his wife Correy run the winery with the principle to preserve the natural gifts of the land.
Featured in Episode
- Dino Dina, Owner
Included in Your Tasting Kit
- 2016 Cimarossa Rive di Cimarossa Estate Cabernet Sauvignon | $80
- 2017 Cimarossa Riva di Ponente Estate Cabernet Sauvignon | $120
- 2017 Cimarossa Buriana Estate Cabernet Sauvignon | $150
Co-owners Scotti Stark and Michael DeSantis blend their years of experience in business and wine, along with their slightly nutty personalities, to bring you fabulous wine. Harumph is an über boutique winery that knows no boundaries. It’s a fun label, but there is a serious wine inside.
Included in Your Tasting Kit
- 2016 Harumph Napa Valley Cabernet | $85
About SOMM TV
SOMM TV is the first SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) streaming platform and full podcast network in the wine, food, and travel space with exclusive new shows, films, and educational content created from the ground up by Jason Wise and the team that made the award-winning SOMM documentary series.
SOMM TV is available on every device and smart TV worldwide through our custom app and website.
CONSULTING SOMMELIER
Scotti Stark
Scotti Stark, aptly dubbed Napa’s Connector-in-Chief, served as Wine Director of Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, where he curated the wine list that resulted in a Best Sommelier award from Food and Wine Magazine. Scotti spends his time connecting wine lovers to the best of Napa with his strong winery partnerships and wealth of industry knowledge through his company Stark Advantage. Stark has curated a stellar group of Napa’s most exclusive wineries for an all-access tasting experience as part of CellarSelect.
Scotti draws from his Texas roots and industry expertise to connect affluent, wine-loving Texans to the best of Napa Valley with highly curated experiences and private boutique wineries. For more on Scotti’s services go to starkadvantage.com
Ambassadors
PaperCity is thrilled to tap a few notable collections in both Houston and Dallas to serve as ambassadors of the event. CellarSelect Ambassadors will serve as consultants to connect discerning wine lovers in each city to the best of Napa Valley.
Dallas
- John and Beccah Wallace
- Boyd and Wendy Messman
- Dennie Pitzer and Dodie Foxworth
Houston
- Devinder and Gina Bhatia
- Doug and Caroline Bailey
- Mace and Melanie Meeks
Charity Partners
Dallas
Houston
Sponsors
Tickets
On sale through November 8 or until sold out. Limited tasting kits available.
Tasting Pour Kit
$150 SOLD OUT
- Tasting samples (3 oz each) of 9 wines from Napa Valley's top vintners ($100 average bottles)
- Four tasting episodes produced by award-winning filmmaker Jason Wise premiering on SOMM TV
- Access to a Q&A platform to ask winemakers, Jason Wise or Scotti Stark any questions
- Tasting Kit delivered to your door by private delivery service
- 1x Light snacks and accoutrements
- Discount on any wines purchased from participating vintners
- SOMM TV, 1-year subscription - $50 Value
- Alto Car Service, $50 gift card
- 1x entry to win the Grand Prize Giveaway - $1800+ Value
- Bonus - Tasting of a select Napa Valley wine from Central Market
Full Pour Kit
$250 SOLD OUT
- Full pours (6 oz each) of 9 wines from Napa Valley's top vintners – can be used as a tasting for two people ($100 average bottles)
- Four tasting episodes produced by award-winning filmmaker Jason Wise premiering on SOMM TV
- Access to a Q&A platform to ask winemakers, Jason Wise or Scotti Stark any questions
- Tasting Kit delivered to your door by private delivery service
- 2x Light snacks and accoutrements
- Discounts on any wines purchased from participating vintners
- SOMM TV, 1-year subscription - $50 Value
- Alto Car Service, $100 gift card
- 2x entry to win the Grand Prize Giveaway - $1800+ Value
- Bonus - Tasting of a select Napa Valley wine from Central Market
With Purchase of a Tasting Kit, You Will Automatically be Entered to Win Our Grand Prize
One lucky winner will receive a Model 11 Coravin + FULL-size bottles of all 9 Napa Valley wines featured in the tasting event.
Total prize value over $1,800, winner will be chosen at random.
Entertaining Package
Ideal for corporate entertaining, inviting guests, unique networking experiences. Limited Availablity.
Entertaining Package
$3,250 SOLD OUT
- Host a private tasting at your home with the tasting videos in the background
- Includes enough wine and accoutrements for up to 8 people
- Caterer and waiter to deliver and set it up tasting experience at hosts home to help orchestrate tasting and take care of all cleanup
- All Stemware for tasting provided
- Charcuterie and light bites provided
- Discounts for the host and all guest on any wine purchased directly from the wineries
- Coravin Wine Opener to be used at the events and given to the host to keep (Model 5, $299 value)
- Alto Car Service for guests to event, (8) $100 gift cards included, one for each guest
- Bonus - a tasting of select Napa Valley wine from Central Market
Custom ticket packages and sponsorships available.
sponsors@papercitymag.com
Frequently Asked Questions
The delivery contact will be text messaged prior to the delivery to provide a window of time when the delivery take place.
This virtual event is only for the Houston and Dallas areas.
All four episodes in the video series are approximately 15 minutes long.
The tasting kits will be delivered via Alto Car Service prior to the event.
We will have a commentary forum that will go live on the night the episodes premiere if you would like to ask any questions to the wineries, sommelier, film maker or have any general questions or comments regarding the event.
All four episodes will be released simultaneously on Thursday, November 12th at 7pm. You can watch all four episodes in the same night and taste all of your wines, or spread them out to multiple evenings. We provide all the tools and you can conduct the tastings and viewings at your own pace.