Scottsdale Wine Club - Hourglass Winery Wine Tasting

10401 North 100th Street,Scottsdale AZ 85258

21 September, 2022

Description

You are cordially invited to an intimate wine tasting hosted by Hourglass Winery at the home of Scottsdale Wine Club member, Ms. Sharmi Albrechtsen. Hourglass is one of Napas premier wineries, with some of the Valley's most sought-after Cabernets. The history of Hourglass starts off with Ned Smith purchasing 4 acres in Napa in 1976, and starting off what wold later become Hourglass Winery. Space is limited. Please RSVP ASAP to reserve your spot. Tickets are $40 per person. This is a steal to try one of Napa's best wineries. ------------------- More about Hourglass Winery: Ned became a real estate agent, only the second to set up shop in the valley. He was a natural, a man who could scan a fallow parcel and envision for his clients the vineyards and winery yet to come. Over the next decade, he introduced many aspiring Napa vintners, such as Jack & Jamie Davies (Schramsberg), Dick Grace (Grace Family Vineyards), and Carl Doumani (Stag's Leap) to the estates that would become the iconic wineries of today. There was one particular six-acre property two miles north of St. Helena that captured Ned’s imagination in 1976. Where an outcropping of the Maycamas mountains jutted eastward, the Napa Valley floor was pinched to a near figure eight, and this unclaimed knoll of hillside lay precisely in the narrowest point. Over the past decade, Ned had developed an uncanny intuition about land. He knew at once that this lot, nestled in the crux of the hourglass-shaped valley, was something special. He wouldn’t share it with his aspiring vintner clients; this parcel would be his. Ned planted an orchard on the hillside, hoping to sell the fruit and eventually build a home alongside it. Despite the diligent effort, the fruit trees died within a couple of months. Undeterred, he took a cue from his neighbor, Dan Duckhorn, and revised his farming plan. Realizing the site’s intense soils were ideal for grapevines, he planted the varietal he loved, Zinfandel. His four-acre vineyard yielded excellent grapes for nearly fifteen years. Ned passed away in the early 90s and left the land to his son Jeff. Jeff would later replant the vineyard site to Cabernet Sauvignon, with the advice of some of the best winemakers and grape growers in the valley. Jeff would bring on Bob Foley to help him make his first vintages of what would now be called Hourglass since the site sits right in the middle of the valley. In 2005 Jeff discovered, what would now be the Blueline property and converted the land to have 24 acres across two estates, planted to all five red Bordeaux varieties. Hourglass now makes Sauvignon Blanc, Red Blend, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Cabernet Sauvignon.