How About Some Vino for Your Dear Old Dad?! Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 16! Come on up and enjoy live music by Bob Burnett, who will serenade us with his electric guitar. Treat your Dad to a special day, bring a picnic and sip some lovely wines. We have plenty of wines packages …
Cellar Alumni Sale Memorial Day Weekend! Calling all Sippers Club members! Dave has pulled some special wines from the cellar to share with you just in time for graduation, wedding and anniversary season. We’ll be offering the following wines for complimentary tasting and sale from Saturday the 25th thru Monday the 27th …
Mother’s Day Brunch In The Barrel Room Here’s a fun and unique idea for Mother’s Day: gather your whole family, up to 12 people, and come have brunch in our barrel room! This brunch is for up to 12 people, and includes estate-grown wine, bubbles, a vineyard tour, a yummy brunch and a complimentary bottle …
Passport Saturday, Barrels for Bulbs, Cellar Treasures! This Saturday brings Passport! Don’t miss our special guests, Mary Bormann of Stella+Dot Jewelry, and Bev of Sweet Bevy’s Shortbread, who will be sampling and selling her amazing buttery creations – get some for your Easter baskets! If you haven’t participated in one of our special Cellar Treasures tastings yet, …
Announcing Cellar Treasures Library Verticals on Select Sundays During the month of April, we will be showcasing a vertical tasting of four cellar wines paired with small bites. Join us as we explore library vintages in the incomparable classroom setting of the one room schoolhouse. All vintages will be available for purchase during this time, …
Barrel Tasting & Futures Barrel Tastings and futures continue this weekend and next. Come on up and take a gander at the Class of 2017. You’ll get to taste previews of the 2017 vintage of Syrah, Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir. These are all estate wines, and only available at 50% off by the case …
Barrel Tasting and Futures, Every Weekend in March! It’s time to take a gander at the Class of 2017 with our barrel tasting and futures event. You’ll get to taste previews of the 2017 vintage of Syrah, Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir. These are all estate wines, and only available at 50% off by the case …
August heat is bringing veraison to all the red varieties in the vineyards at the Schoolhouse. This is the time when Chardonnay begins to turn from bright green to a muted shade of yellow, then gold, as it ripens in the California sunshine, and the reds begin to take on their violet grapeness. …
Celebrate the 4th of July In Style July 4th is the official birthday of the Burrell Schoolhouse which turns 127 this year. We celebrate with the annual flag raising ceremony and cake! The tasting room will be open June 30 through July 4th with a “Back to the Future” tasting and case sale special, in …
June is traditionally the month that brings us so many reasons to celebrate —graduations, weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and Fathers Day. Speaking of graduations, congratulations to our long time tasting room manager, Katarina Simic, and her eldest son Luka, on his graduation from Sonoma State! Well done! We’re also kicking off “Summer School” for the …
Here at the schoolhouse, we’ve always looked forward to May, when Anne’s heritage rose garden bursts forth with fragrant, multi-hued blossoms. Each year, it gets more spectacular, and with the winter rains, we anticipate a glorious display all month long. Plus, with the warm weather, the vines will be fully in bloom. The gazebo garden …
Merlot always tastes great during the month of March, and lucky for us Merlot lovers, the 2012 vintage can be had for $27 per bottle, so come indulge in the madness. And this just in!! We discovered a secret stash of the 2008 when preparing for our Library Reserve Club tasting this weekend, March 4 …
On the heels of the wettest January in decades, comes February, packed with fun events for sports fans, romantics and history lovers. We’re welcoming the very beneficial rain and enjoying the beautiful green cover crop on the vineyard floor, which is very helpful for erosion control. The buzz going around the region is that …
Wishing You All A Bountiful New Year From Your Friends at Burrell School We ring in 2017 to the sounds of rain on the roof, and are thankful that the vines are getting a good soaking. Lack of water has been such a concern: it definitely impacted our yields over the last few years, so …
All of us at Burrell School Vineyards would like to wish you and yours a very happy holiday season. It’s certainly beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you turn! As the hustle and bustle reaches a fever pitch, we remind ourselves that what is most important is not the presents, but the presence …
Many of you are asking about the impact of the #LomaFire on the wineries up here in the Summit area. Thankfully, our Summit wineries have had little or no impact: we at Burrell School are fine. Our neighbors at Loma Prieta Winery have had a scarily close bird’s eye view of the fire since it …