A Napa Valley Collector’s Tasting with Andrew Bradbury Featuring Schrader, Double Diamond & Mt. Veeder Winery $50 per person | Floating Tasting | The Wine Whisperer
Friends, there are wine tastings—and then there are nights when someone starts opening bottles that make you quietly rearrange your plans.
This is the second kind.
We’re welcoming Andrew Bradbury to The Wine Whisperer for a seriously special floating tasting featuring Schrader Cellars, Double Diamond, and Mt. Veeder Winery. And when we saw the lineup for this one, our response was pretty simple: yep. We need to do this.
If you love Napa Cabernet, you really need to taste these wines.
We’ll ease into things with Double Diamond Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc before getting to the reason most of us are here: Cabernet. And not just a parade of big Napa Cabs that all taste vaguely like one another. This lineup gives us a chance to really dig into place—mountain fruit versus Oakville, different vineyards, different vintages, and some very, very good winemaking.
We’ll taste Double Diamond Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon alongside two expressions from Mt. Veeder Winery, including their Reserve Cabernet. It’s a chance to taste what happens when we move from the valley floor up into the mountains, and we think the comparison alone is worth showing up for.
But then Andrew is going to open the really fun stuff.
We’re pouring Schrader Wappo Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2023, followed by two wines connected to perhaps the most famous vineyard name in Napa Valley: To Kalon. We’ll have the 2022 To Kalon HWC Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon and 2022 To Kalon Eliza’s Red open and ready to taste.
Yes. We’re opening all of them.
The full lineup:
Double Diamond Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2024
Double Diamond Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
Mt. Veeder Winery Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
Mt. Veeder Winery Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
2023 Schrader Wappo Hill Cabernet Sauvignon
2022 To Kalon HWC Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon
2021 To Kalon Eliza’s Red 2022
Andrew will be hanging out with us throughout the evening to talk about the vineyards, the wines, the vintages, and all the little details that make these bottles what they are. Ask questions. Taste things next to each other. Go back and revisit something. Tell us which one you love. Disagree with your friend about which one is better. This is exactly how we want you to experience these wines.
And because this is a floating tasting, there’s no classroom and no formal start time. Come in, grab your glass, and make your way through the lineup at your own pace.
Tickets are $50 per person, and frankly, we’re pretty delighted that we can put this much serious Napa wine in front of you for fifty bucks.
These are bottles we don't get to casually line up and taste side by side very often. If you've ever been curious about Schrader, wanted to dig deeper into Napa's great vineyard sites, or just want an excuse to taste some truly exceptional Cabernet, come hang out with us.
If Cabernet is your love language, we’ll see you there.