6:30 p.m.
The Sky Lodge Winemaker Dinner Series
With Judd’s Hill Winery’s Judd and Holly Finkelstein

Join your host Karen Cakebread in welcoming Judd and Holly Finkelstein for an evening of dining and wine featuring selected vintages from Judds’ Hill.

This intimate 45-seat Winemaker Dinner Series event begins with a winemaker reception followed by a 5-course dinner with wine pairings and remarks by the winemaker. Inspired by the wines, the evening’s one-night-only menu is lovingly created by The Sky Lodge’s talented chefs, lead by Executive Chef Scott Boberek.

$125 per person. Call early for pre-paid reservations as Sky Lodge Winemaker Dinner Series events typically sell out: 435-658-9420.

Judd’s Hill Winery is a premium boutique winery located on a 14-acre hillside in the eastern hills of Napa Valley owned and operated by the multi-talented Finkelstein Family: Art and Bunnie, son Judd and wife Holly. Since Judd’s Hills’ first release in 1989 of a Cabernet Sauvignon, they devote themselves to making small lots of premium handcrafted wines. Juddshill.com

Judd Finkelstein was raised in Napa Valley. He graduated from The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication at Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in Television Production, but you might say winemaking was in his blood. Since he was a tot, his parents were making wine. From pruning to picking to punching to pressing, Judd has been involved in every facet of winemaking, and he also studied winemaking at UC Davis and Napa Valley College. One of Judd's other passions is playing his ukulele, both solo and with his band, The Maikai Gents Featuring The Mysterious Miss Mauna Loa. You can learn more and hear what it all sounds like at www.mkgents.com. Judd has also started a ukulele club in the Napa Valley, The Wine Country Flea Jumpers.

Holly Finkelstein is the CFO for Judd’s Hill. Besides running the day-to-day operations for her family’s winery and MicroCrush custom winemaking businesses, Holly is one of the youngest women in the country running a winery. Holly has an MBA from the Peter Drucker Graduate School of Management. Before falling in love with wine and her husband, winemaker Judd Finkelstein, Holly served as the Program Officer of Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation, a philanthropic fund based in Los Angeles.