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This week we sat down with Robyn Sebastiani from SVVGA, Tim Zahner from the Sonoma Valley Visitors Bureau and Mark Bodenhammer from the Chamber of Commerce to lay out the upcoming Vintage Festival.

The Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival is California’s oldest wine festival, with roots dating back to 1897 in Sonoma, the birthplace of California winemaking.

The festival began when local playwright and Sonoma Union High School principal Ben Weed staged a theatrical pageant called The Vintage Festival at the Gundlach family’s Rhinefarm in 1897. The play featured Bacchus, the Greek god of wine, resolving local problems in a festive, Bacchanalian celebration. The 1897 event was deemed “a great success” by the local press. In 1898, Weed returned with another Bacchus-themed drama, set in a natural amphitheater, where Bacchus and his followers helped a young man win a romantic contest.

For decades, Sonoma residents celebrated the grape harvest with the Vintage Festival, even during Prohibition (1920–1933), when alcohol was banned. According to a 1927 newspaper account, the festival continued with “dancing, games and feasting” using grape juice.

The Great Depression and World War II caused the festival to lapse for several years. The festival was revived in 1947 with a full-scale community celebration: costumed participants, a parade of horse-drawn wagons, and live music from Mexican bands. This marked the start of the modern tradition, organized by local residents, and supported by philanthropic groups.

Today, the Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival is held each September in the historic Sonoma Plaza—the largest town square in California and the site of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt. It blends a free daytime street festival with wine tastings, artisan markets, live music, the sausage toss, and the signature Grape Stomp competition, alongside ticketed harvest dinners and the Grand Tasting at the Sonoma Barracks.

The festival is both a celebration of Sonoma’s winemaking heritage and a living link to its agricultural and community traditions, drawing generations of Californians to honor the region’s “grape bounty, community spirit, and rich history.” {ep 429]

We hope you can come join in the festivities.

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Cross country team, the wrestling team. Mentoring Alliance, the Sebastian E. Theater Foundation. So many. And we really try to stay consistent in that. A lot of the inspiration from this comes to when we had the Sonoma Valley Wine Auction, which was a staple here for a couple decades. They would raise big money to go back to the community. When that was kind of picked up by the Sonoma County vipers, we lost a little bit of that here. And so this is our way to go back to being able to figure out a way to get back to the local community. Because Sonoma Valley has always been about Sonoma Valley. And we kind of got like eaten up by the larger county for a while. And so this has been a really refreshing way to come back and support our community. Because they support us, quite frankly. For sure. Thank you guys for your hard work. I know this takes the whole year to play. We haven't even made it to Sunday morning yet. I know, we haven't... But I want to...

Do you have the last one? Yeah, Sunday morning is the rubbubbles in brunch at Kylstadt. Oh, yeah. There are some tickets still available. Yep, Bloom and Kylstadt. Jordan was really excited to bring something. He's like, we've got to finish with a breakfast. So he's doing a breakfast. If you've never had their French toast at Bloom, worth driving for sure. Not for you, Sam. Yeah, that's all good. I can smell it. Sure. But it's awesome. So we'll cap it off at Bloom. Wow, so you can go Friday. You can go pick grapes out at San Jocomo at 11 o'clock in the morning. And then just go non-stop until 12 p.m. on Sunday having brunch at Bloom. And you can go pick them up for people who attend the most things. Right? Like, maybe you get a pass and you get something absolutely. This is good for everyone. Free tickets to our show, Sunday night. So then what is the official unofficial ending to the vintage festival, Sam?

It is final Sunday unofficial. Final Sunday, harvest party at the Denmark Street Barn with Jason Crosby and the Crosby Collective. No relation to David Crosby from the Grateful Dead Phil Leshpop We're World. And he put together an awesome like All Star Band and they're doing his, the Crosby, go on YouTube and look up Crosby Collective. He's sort of like doing these crazy mashups like Nirvana and Friend of the Devil in the same song. In Bloom and Friend of the Leop, you know, it's just like bunch of sliced stone. It's awesome. He can play one of those multi instrumentalist kind of guys. And of course lots of 16600 wine. Lots of 16600 wine, swim club food, Tony Saunders opening. We'll have some vendors out there. Tony's doing, it's not just him. It's the keystone of the show. And for those who don't know who Tony Saunders is, maybe you could fill in. The son of Murls Saunders who was one of Jerry Garcia's sort of favorite people to play with, especially in the 70s they did all kinds of,

these like little, you know, the keystone in Berkeley, which is probably the size of this tent. And they've been played there all the time whenever Jerry wasn't on the road. And he was more of a jazz musician, correct? Yeah, it's where he kind of came from. And they played a lot of like some pretty wild stuff. Legion Mary kind of in that same range. So good music. To be good music. And the barn. And the Saturday night is the full moon. Oh, Saturday night's full moon. So means Friday night under the, in the, in the horseshoe, we'll have good moon. Friday, Saturday night means it's going to be weird as fuck at the grand tasting. Full moon. Full moon in Sonoma with a bunch of wine. Don't miss it. I'm going to be out. So I'm not going to be chained in my basement. And then, yeah, the full moon, you know, night three Sunday night. And Sunday night they can just reach out to us if they want to take it. Yeah, tickets on our website. Yeah. Wine or 1600.com.

One other thing that I don't want to forget to mention is we just had our 200th harvest last year. Pretty incredible when you think of things that are 200 years old. Sonoma Valley in the wine industry is and we have created anniversary magnums. There are only 200 and they have 2025 cab from the 200th harvest. And they will go on sale tomorrow night on our online auction. So go to Sonoma Valley wine.com. Wait, Robin, which winters are contributing to that one? Oh, so we have four awesome cabs that'll go into this. Benziger, Corsi Graves, Laurel Glen, and Winery 1600. Oh, cool. So that's coming together with our brilliant wine makers. They'll make this all taste amazing and we'll bottle it next summer most likely. But you'll be able to get a little tasting at harvest dinner if you're coming. But if not, trust us. It's going to be amazing and it'll for sure be a collector's piece.

I mean, it truly is a community wine. Of course, there's a Benz Valley. Yeah, you had Moon Mountain district. I got some cab from Moon Mountain. I'm sure Glen Sonoma Mountain. Benziger Sonoma. Yeah, so. Pretty cool. Yeah. Pretty cool. And no other time with those four wines be put together in this sort of thing. And this wine wasn't blended to really what it was that tastes good. We know that all four wine rays make very good wine. And it wasn't blended to taste good. They didn't come out right. This is a hundred percent commercial wine. We've got a bunch of young buckets full of what I can show them the ingredients. From the great stuff. From the great stuff. It's like Mark's feet. I've got to learn. I've got to learn to like rest learn. Finish my point before getting interrupted. Spit it out. Anyway, what was your point? Four of our finest Cabernet producers coming together. Yeah. And you know that the wines can be good. You know that juice is going to be good.

We're going to have a little bit of time in barrel to marry together and become homogenized and become one thing. Who knows, maybe it'll be fantastic. And we want to do this every year. Right. Probably not. Well, not the other one. Another one. Little does everyone know. Working with Ford. Mark has been, he helped spearhead this type of project for the foundation three years ago. And so we've done a barrel every year. And it's been pretty special. I've purchased a case every year. Anytime we bring one to someone's house, we're like, oh, we must really like them. Because it tells a story. It feels personal. So when you come over and you don't bring one, you don't really like this. You're not a fan. Now you know. No, now you know. Oh, hi, Robin Hiker is old. Oh, more cans. Awesome. Cool. See you. Too shame. Since we have you guys here, is there anything new going on with the visitors bureau or chamber commerce and before you answer? I got a question for you guys. We are kid friendly here at our tasting house.

And so besides, besides, frame town, people ask me when they come here with their kids. What do they do with their kids? So do you have any suggestions that I can give them? That's a great question. We get that a lot actually. And there are a handful. First of all, thank you guys for being kid friendly around here. Because there's a lot of wineries that they'll all kind of tolerate them. But you guys actually, there's a handful that do a good job. Bloom carnairosis one. Yeah. They're definitely kid friendly. Larson is Bartholomew. They're kid friendly dog friendly. That's, that's a big. Hamilton has a kid's zone over there in the little tiny tea ceiling. Yeah. Yeah. Up in the canoes. Yeah. The total quarter. Sonoma Botanical Garden is a great stop. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's still like looking at plants. Yeah, but we've got the world class. We're all class playground here on the plaza. Yes. Robin's kids are refined first of all, so knock it off. Second on this vlog. Just to jump in. I appreciate your time. We have two playgrounds on the plaza. Yeah.

And Mark's got one child. Mark is 25, but his daughter is off in college now. I know, honestly, to go and hang out at the plaza with some wine and a playground. Which is what it should run. It should run. But Mark, you're probably going to mention, I'm sure, that we have great regional parks. We also have things like the Sonoma Garden Park, if you want to go do a picnic out there. And that's a neat area, big, big tree. I've seen it. But they call you Sonoma. That part. It's really cool. A lot of our kids' activities in Sonoma Valley, I find, are much more nature-focused. Yeah. And like being outdoors and stuff like that. But we do have places that are very important that kids visit. Like Sweet Scoops Ice Cream is probably pretty crucial if they're not lactose intolerant. And they got the vegan and the dairy free. Yeah. And they got gluten-free cones. Mr. GF over here. So there are a lot of things with kids. Mark, there's probably more ideas. Yeah, Cassidy Ranch, where you're just out there. They have a cool, what's it called, the FarmUPick experience out there. It's really cool. You can just bring your family out there and do a pick.

I was just over at Ben Zinger and they were taken off on the tram. Yeah. And I was like, can I go? Or the small cows? Yeah. I have their baby cows. They're like negative cows. Yeah. Believe they're like unicorns. Believe they're not. They have the mature cows. They identify as full size cows. Mr. GF is a great spot. So great. And also, just if you have kids here, there's a lot of stuff you can do in any great small town with kids. So if they're teenagers, Dutch Bros seems to be the place that they all seem to end up for some reason to get... Drop them out of Dutch Bros, but I think four hours later, I love Dutch Bros for some reason. That's because... Have you ever had anything for Dutch Bros? I think it's about 35% sugar. Yeah. They're the most successful for kids in town. Most of the time it's a sugar and caffeine together. The parents will come in here and change. But then they have to go do something for the kids to kind of feel like they get something. If you're here this summer or if they're a quadrically focused, we do have Sonoma Splash, which really is a fantastic swimming pool. You might not know the story. We had a swimming pool. We didn't have a swimming pool.

The community came together to bring back the swimming pool. And it's right next to the high school. It's an amazing place. And I tell people, if you're looking for kids that bring us some steam, especially this summer, they have good activities. And they do like that obstacle course. And they have the obstacle course. Yeah, it's fun. Mortens in the summer. Mortens in the summer. Yes, Saturday, October 3rd is two things. The Garden Park Harvest Festival out there on the seventh street. But it's also the Oak Hill Farms Pumpkin Tracks. Oh, yeah. So we bust out the Trebuchet and fling pumpkins like 300 meters across. What? Did you not listen to the Sonoma Spiel Podcast? That's weird. Mark was talking about it. What's that? On every platform. I've got Jimmy on tomorrow talking about it. So you know I'm super excited to hear. Is he going to be the first person on your podcast who comes in in a Utilicode? Thank you. Jimmy, the kill guy. With the gord. Kill Dreadlocks and flinging pumpkins across the world. Jimmy, Jimmy Good is his name. He likes pumpkins and throwing them as his game.

So he's got this Trebuchet. He will launch them up at Oak Hill Farm up there in Glen Ellen. And it's really nice because if you want to start a compost pile but like 300 yards over there, you need a Trebuchet. And he will launch. Very degrees of accuracy. Awesome. Yeah, this seems like something you should work. Yeah. No, that's a good fun. Okay, so Tim and Mark, name your two favorite businesses in Sonoma. Oh, ho. And real. I'm serious. What are you waiting for? That's my part. That he worked members. How about that? I think it's really. I think it's work. Here's your chance of being there. There you go. Working microphone. Well, it's a good night having Tim here. Here to go. Important Bureau business. He's like an outline of Tim on the wall. Why are you having that? Exit stage right? Yeah, we're not allowed to have favorites. You get your favorites removed when you take a job at the Visitors Bureau or the Chamber.

We love that. We love all of them. We love them all. Yeah, deeply. If you're out of the lines, you can have favorites. All their lines. Everyone, I have a favorite at every property. Yeah, well done. Yeah, we love them all equally. What's up after you guys do the vintage festival? Are you shutting down for the year? Oh, there's all kinds of. Can I jump into one thing and jump into your thing? Yeah. Because there are bookends. So on Saturday, November 21st, we do the lighting of the cinema plaza, where we gather the community together. And we all light the historic and traditional palm tree in front of the city hall. We have music. And it's a really good time. So on Saturday, November 21st, and you're probably wondering, Tim, the holidays are starting. Are we done? Is there nothing else to do? Well, then we throw it over to Robin. Yeah. And she does. Yeah, the ventures and growers and the chamber. We bring in the forest on the 28th. We've had a sippenshop followed by the Sonoma Valley lighted tractor parade.

Yay! I think it's awesome. And so it's agriculture lit up in all its glory. It's so much fun. It's better than a Disney parade. It lasts about 50 minutes. That's because there's wine. It's probably true. There's wine at Disney. It's a part of the fun. We just got an email from the Disney lawyers. It's absolutely spectacular. It's quickly become a cult following a big community event that takes everyone to put on it so much fun. And then the sippenshop, we love the sippenshop. We're also looking, is that the best day for the sippenshop? We want to hear from you. Is it before Thanksgiving? Is it after Thanksgiving? We don't know. When do you want a sippenshop around here? I think it's always a good day to sippenshop around here. We've done it on the same day in the past, but we're taking a look at maybe. We better to spread it out. Spread out the fun a little bit. So we'll see. And part of it is just because the parade is growing every year. We started this thing three years ago.

And it was, it succeeded expectations every year. But now it's grown to the point where the police want us to have a plan for safety. I know. Let's kill. Good thing this isn't a video. It's hot gas. Yeah, because you can definitely not infer anything from the whole jazz hands thing that Mark was doing there. Okay. I heard about traffic. Year one, year one was hilarious. There was literally no plan. Nobody thought about what's going to happen. I was scooping toddlers out of the road in the in the horseshoe because there were no barricades. There was no order or structure. And we almost lit the trees on fire. And we were like, oh, the blue, the blue, the hot air balloon guy. Yeah. But in the beginning, Mark and I were sitting there and we're like, we wonder if anyone's going to come. Right. And eight people set up their chairs and we were like, great. Yeah. And then hordes of people came and we came through the horseshoe which is beautiful, terrible idea. And yeah, we're not allowed to do that ever again.

Yeah, no. But we were there. Yeah, we almost had a fire and dead toddlers. But it's been a downer. Not the most special holiday tradition. We're too a little harder to come by. Thank God. But now it's a little more organized. And it's just so much fun. And now it is crazy. I don't know where these people are coming from all over the place. And we welcome you. And I put my launchers at all. Well, that's the way we're going to be closing roads this year and shutting off parking. So you'll be able, just like fourth of July, I think you can actually get out there early, put your stuff out there and grab a spot. It is a really, really fun thing. It is just pure holiday, all old school, sonoma agriculture, on display. When I was envisioning it, I was like, oh, somebody's going to get a truck and put like two string lights. Nope. And people go absolutely bananas on this. Yeah. All kinds of moving things and. The biggest harvesters you've ever seen. I love the actual great harvesters. The big ones are out there. Yeah. These are real things. It's a spectacle.

It's really cool to get the feedback from the wineries talking about how their employees have so much fun decorating the tractors and the vehicles that they're used. And they're going to be crazy this year because I don't have like three months to decorate those tractors. Yeah, I got shit to do. I think the same jockermost were even saying they're like, this is our employees favorite. Time of year, they love this event. They plan on it. They always ask to put in numerous tractors. It's great. I mean, how fun that everyone can participate. Yeah. You can get one of those UV drone over road drones. Things they're advertising the other day. Right. That would be. Yeah. We don't have a lot of them in the parade. I have no other in the parade. I treat you. No, no, no, no. It's on the ground drone. Oh, okay. I got a lot of them. I'm not going to pottle. It's here. Really? So I guess this drone treats mildew. Powdery mildew. Yeah. And like it's just fine with the YGV radiation. And it got stuck in like a gopher hole. And it didn't move. It's like fried of vine. So we had to put bigger tires on it. It was kind of like perfect. Yeah.

Learning curve. That's why we're, you know, we'll wait a while before we employ one of those. The Moon Mountain District. We're going to be grounding a toddler away from the UV light. It's like shield drones. So come out. It's like a whole family. You're kids probably won't die. Where's the glasses? Rainer shine. Over there. Yeah, what are you talking about that? I mean, God forbid it. Rainer shine. Is that ever happened any year? Yeah, the applause. We had a light sprinkle at the tree lighting a couple years ago. Yeah. That was... We're buying rain insurance this year. And I keep talking about it to scare it away. But I don't know if I'm... Two years ago on the daytime festival, it poured for about 15 minutes. I remember that. I remember that. You were... I showed up right after. It was like sweating. It was like puddles. It rained for a little bit at the barracks. I remember I had a tablecluster wet. Yeah, everything was set up. Yeah, all the tablecluster wet. You couldn't even tell. That's right. And everything went off well with out of hitch. And then it dried. Yeah. Robin would make a glass. She poured water out of it. She's like, it's not going to rain.

We're all good. Yeah, we went to the Swiss and had a couple martinis. And waited for it to... Yeah. It worked out. Another good thing to do with the kids. Yes, from soft. Yeah, give your kid a glare-a-feet. That's virgin-a-fees. They do that. They have virgin-a-fees that fucking Dutch butter. Basically what they have to say is essentially. That's the secret recipe. I can't remember. Take my eyes off these kids. Give me some more. Oh my god. Sorry for the two members you just lost. Ah my bad. Swiss has only been a member for, like, 102 years. Yeah, that's my… Did I go right there, as tried? Yeah. I was with Silvercoine. Yeah I don't know. Alright. Alright, anything else for the end of the year? Anything you want to tease for next year visitors and chamber? I can op in. Yeah, you jump in. en plein de temps pour rencontrer les碧 à la maison, On met les joueurs lymaires, Feel like, la plube

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Early bird tickets, that's done. However, she did the last note was next week, associations, AVAs, I'm going to add alliances, chambers, and bureaus, we'll get discount codes for $50 off. And so if you want to be part of that, let her know. And so that's it info at dtcyonsimposium.com. If you want to send out a discount code to your members. So 19th through the 21st, 2027 in Monterey. January. January. Yes. Tuesday is networking day. There's a golf tournament, rain or shine, maybe. That's way to network. Yeah. Get four friends and drive away from everybody else. Be your candidate, your hand. Perfect. I love that kind of networking. We are doing a sorbet tasting at dtc at a place called Taste of Monterey, which is confusing, but it's sorbet. It's periodo periodo. Period. Always things to be. And 12 sorbet wineries pouring.

So tickets will go on sale for now. Sorbet is an acronym to him. Thank you. Yeah. Sonoma organic, biode and regenerative, biodynamic. I don't know the other two. Educational tasting. Educational tasting. Des cartes. Oh, yes. You should see the web address. That's sorbet wine.org. So that's happening. And then Wednesday, Thursday, this is new. Both are full days of the conference. So it goes all the way to the end on Thursday. And I guess there's a special guest who we will announce when Barbara tells us whatever the special guest is that will close the conference on Thursday afternoon. So you have to stay to the end. I got some feelings about it. But what are your predictions? Andre Max already there, right? Andre Max, Andrew Mainstone already there. I have a feeling that Angry Som is going to show up. The Angry Som is that enough of a... We love the Angry Som. Enough of a draw to keep people to the conference. No, I have a feeling it's someone that I follow on Instagram that was recently in Burgundy

and might have involved J.C. in some way. J.C. J.C. And we'll see. He's got 99 problems but a burrow away one. J.C. Burrow away one. Okay. All right, well... What was he? Flip Fanger. That's too much. Also tickets will be on sale for the Wednesday. Your punch cards are almost full. Cocktails are the aquarium. Cocktails are the aquarium, which was baller. So much fun. Were you with the aquarium last year? Not at the aquarium. You didn't go to the aquarium. I remember seeing with GGC. I did. I was there at the conference. Okay. Go to the aquarium this year. Next year. 2027. That was pretty cool. It's at night. They close the cake everyone out. And then we roll in. And they throw a cocktail party. Yeah. So it's no lights. And so it's just the... You're in the jellyfish. You can just let up fishcakes. Yeah. Yeah. Super cool. Might be a place to have other things in the coffee. Yeah. Put top Chinese drinks. And champagne. Yeah, obviously. There you go. That's it. I mean, there's a whole bunch of other shit going on.

Yeah. And we're staying on a golf course and in talks with... There might be more added as needed. Oh, the like, ABA competition thing. That's all kind of stuff. Yeah. Bring your own ABA event. Oh, an ultimate hospitality challenge with our friend Kelly Cornette, a cork in the road. Ah, cool. Yeah, that was a lot. Which apparently I might be competing in. Sweet. Someone have to learn how to do hospitality. There you go. Did they have a swan me talk? Could be a swat. I'm bringing a swan me talk. That is the most hospitable thing you can do. It's the potatoes that swallow me. You are welcome. Or just, I guess. Or just share a salami with your friends. There you go. Have a bite of salami. But you got to go win one. Otherwise, where are you going to get a salami? There you go. Start warming up your potato. And then if you don't get a chance to make it, you want to go to Sorbet, which was really successful last year. It's November 8th. Or a very fort Mason. So we'll be shouting out a little bit more about that. How many wine rings do you get? A ticket length of that to drop. Yeah. And as soon as Ali has done picking harvesting, a bedrock.

Cool. And then the rone, rone's by the bay, did kind of switch up a little bit. So now it's ssss. Ss. Ss. Ss. Ss. Ss. I'm going to spark. I'm going to spark and then do the other things after. That's going to be after we'll see. That's going to be at Fort Mason. Because both the events were going to be held at the same time. So they just decided to join forces. So rone rangers and the guardsmen just decided that should throw one big party. So yeah, that's going to be on November 14th of Fort Mason from one to five. So if you're in the city or you want to come to the city, that's always a fun place to do a wine tasting it. I think if you're listening and you don't live in the Bay Area or Sonoma, you should just move here on September 20th. Well, the 18th tomorrow today. And stay through the year. At least the tractor parade. Right. For sure. That would be the appropriate amount of time. Good answer. I know. I'm going to let go now. All right.

Thank you guys. Thank you guys. Thank you. Good time. The Alliance. On behalf of the Alliance, the Bureau, the Chamber, and the Association, and the Rebels. We'll put all those links into the show notes too. So you can get all of everyone. Show notes just links. It's all links, baby, including the golf links. Hot links. Hot links. Hot all hot links.

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