Saturday, September 30th, 9 am - 6 pm

Details

Welcome to our first ever Wine Country Cheese Retreat! Join Hayley Pingree, Founder and Co-Owner of The Napa Table, on Saturday, September 30th for an idyllic fall day filled with cheese, chocolate, wine and connection!

This full-day retreat is the perfect mix of education, learning, adventure and decadence. We’ll explore the beauty of Napa, Sonoma and Petaluma through the lens of cheese with a farm and creamery tour, lunch at the country’s oldest cheesemaker, multiple educational lectures and workshops, a chocolate and cheese pairing with one of Sonoma’s most talented chocolatiers and make new friends along the way!

investment

Early Bird Rate: $249 if registered by September 1st

$299 if registered September 1st-September 23rd

Registration closes on September 23rd

What’s included:

  • Breakfast, coffee, tea, juice and water

  • Bus transfers in a luxury 23-passenger mini-bus

  • Farm and creamery tour

  • Lunch and wine

  • Cheese, chocolate and wine happy hour

  • Four lectures/workshops including: California Cheese 101, Mindful Eating + Slow Food Bootcamp, How to Shop for Cheese 101, Cheese + Chocolate tasting

itinerary

8:30-9 am Registration, light breakfast, coffee, tea and juice

9 am Welcome and Introductions, California Cheese 101

10 am Bus to Achadinha Cheese, Petaluma (Mindful Eating + Slow Food Bootcamp lecture along the way!)

11 am Achadinha farm and creamery tour

1 pm Bus to Marin French Cheese Co., Petaluma

1:30 pm Lunch and Wine on the historic grounds at MFC

2:15 pm How to Shop for Cheese 101, chance to purchase cheese and goods at MFC

3 pm Bus back to l’Atelier

4 pm Cheese, Chocolate and Wine happy hour tasting with Kara Caputo, Chocolatier and Owner, Anchor Chocolates, Sonoma

6 pm Wrap-Up