“We’re so thrilled to be partnering with The Mill Keeper for this occasion,” mentioned NVSPA President Cathie Bennett Warner. “Alongside The Mill Keeper, we’re working to guard and protect the wild and historic areas of the Napa Valley. With Tom Gamble and his Mill Keeper household, we’re wanting ahead to elevating a glass to one among California’s nice historic state parks, which has been a gathering place for neighborhood for over 175 years —an actual Napa County treasure.”
In anticipation of the night’s celebration, a web-based public sale will kick off on Sept. 1 and run till 9 p.m. on Sept. 25. The public sale options over 100 thrilling tons donated by wineries and organizations throughout the Napa Valley. The Mill Keeper can also be donating wine for the “The Mill Keeper Wine & Menegon Catering Lobster Feed Dinner for Twelve” lot. To see the complete checklist of public sale tons and to put bids go to: bwc.io/napa
Along with its presenting sponsorship of the Bale Grist Mill Harvest Dinner, The Mill Keeper is devoted to serving to promote the NVSPA via continued sponsored occasions, donations and co-marketing efforts.
“The Bale Grist Mill served as a part of the early inspiration for The Mill Keeper model,” says Gamble. “The mill was established in 1846 by Dr. Edwin Bale, who’s premature dying left his widow, María Ignacia Soberanes Bale, as the brand new mill keeper. She efficiently expanded and operated the mill and have become a pillar of the early Napa Valley farming neighborhood. Impressed by the legacy of Soberanes Bale, The Mill Keeper Chardonnay MV and The Mill Keeper Cabernet Sauvignon labels function paintings that commemorates the feminine artisans who crafted among the earliest wine within the Napa Valley.”
About The Napa Valley State Parks Affiliation
The Napa Valley State Parks Affiliation is volunteer led, 501c3 nonprofit group with the mission to lift funding and volunteers to help the three California State parks situated within the lovely Napa Valley: Bothe-Napa Valley State Park, the Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park, & Robert Louis Stevenson State Park. Funding raised by the Affiliation is used for a large assortment of upkeep and enchancment initiatives, together with changing the good wheel on the Bale Grist Mill in 2020, path upkeep in all three parks and sponsoring quite a few summer season outside education schemes for Napa Valley youth. To be taught extra concerning the NVSPA please go to napavalleystateparks.org.
About The Mill Keeper
The Mill Keeper was based in 2021 by Tom Gamble—a farmer whose household legacy within the Napa Valley dates again greater than a century–and is impressed by the historical past of Napa’s early wine business pioneers of the mid 1800’s. The Mill Keeper model embodies these pioneers’ enduring spirit and the Gamble Household’s want to carry the virtues of their dedication and the ensuing agrarian bounty of Napa to shoppers in america and globally. Gamble makes use of his information of the Napa Valley to supply responsibly grown fruit from smaller, ignored websites, with the aim of preserving the Napa Valley’s agricultural area, to create prime quality, environmentally acutely aware wine at a price. The Mill Keeper’s foremost focus is to supply distinctive wine from vineyards with sustainable land administration applications. Taking inspiration from Champagne, the place vintages are blended to create constantly lovely bottlings, The Mill Keeper produces multi-vintage Bordeaux wines at a worth vary of $28-$80. To be taught extra about The Mill Keeper please go to themillkeeper.com.
