Harvest Winery Tours
Harvest season is the heart of winemaking at City Winery. During our Harvest Winery Tours, you’ll get a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the winemaking process while it’s actively happening. See the cellar in action, learn what makes Harvest such a critical time of year, and get a closer look at the work that goes into every bottle. Your experience includes a guided winery tour, a wine flight, and a cheese board. Come see Harvest in action, ask questions, and sip your way through the winemaking process!
Guided Wine Tastings
Join us for our wine tastings in Atlanta, where our expert winemakers bring wine country to you. By sourcing exceptional grapes from the nation’s top growing regions, we craft remarkable wines right here in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward. Led by one of our wine professionals, this guided wine tasting will take you through five wines as you explore new flavors, learn what makes each one special, and discover your new favorite pour.
Guided Wine Tastings are offered from 12pm - 6pm on Saturdays & Sundays. Walks-ins are welcome, but reservations are recommended. Please select the "Wine Tasting" dining option when making your reservation in Resy.
Crush Camp
Interactive Winemaking Experience
Go behind the scenes of winemaking at City Winery with Crush Camp, an interactive experience designed to get you closer to the craft. Learn about our unique winemaking model, test your wine knowledge with games and trivia, and get hands-on with a fermentation activity. Your ticket includes a Wine Flight and Cheese Board to enjoy after the experience.
Sip & Carve
Pumpkins, wine, and a little friendly creativity. What could be more fun? Join us this October for Sip & Carve, a festive fall afternoon or evening of pumpkin carving accompanied by your favorite City Winery wines. Bring a friend, make it a date, or gather your crew and come carve, sip, and celebrate the season with us.
The Harvest Case and Half Case
Receive an invite to our exclusive Thanksgiving Wine Tasting hosted in early November at your local City Winery when you purchase our Harvest Case or Harvest Half Case this September or October.
David LeComte
Chief Winemaker
Born in Tournon in the Northern Rhône, David got his start in the vines at 16, harvesting for the Delas & Fils estate. After a biology degree in Lyon and formal training in viticulture, he worked vintages in the Rhône, then spent two years managing vineyards and harvests in China. He later earned a winemaking master's in Montpellier and worked in Virginia, Long Island, and Southern California before joining Michael Dorf in 2008 to help launch City Winery from the ground up.
Travis Van Caster
Winemaker, Hudson Valley
Travis got into wine through a Craigslist ad in Oregon's Willamette Valley in 2007 and was hooked after his first harvest. He studied at five schools across Oregon, France, and New York, graduating from Cornell with a degree in Enology and Viticulture. He then made wine in California for E&J Gallo and Miller Family Wine Company before joining City Winery in 2020.
Caroline Schrader
Winemaker, Chicago
An award-winning Illinois winemaker known for hands-on, craft-focused production, Caroline oversees both the West Loop and Chicago Riverwalk locations. Before wine, she was an architect with a master's from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She later studied enology and viticulture at UC Davis and joined City Winery Chicago in 2014. Favorite variety: Pinot Noir.
Aurélien Gousse
Assistant Winemaker, New York City
Raised in a small medieval town in the Loire Valley, Aurélien grew up around his parents' friends' vineyards, where harvest meant celebration as much as work. His curiosity eventually took him to McLaren Vale in South Australia for further wine education. He joined City Winery as a winemaker in 2015, bringing a deep sense of terroir and a playful, creative personality that comes through in his winemaking.
Michelle Foletta Bell
Winemaker, Nashville
A California native, Michelle started as a professional actor, including national tours and a run at the Grand Ole Opry, before wine became her driving passion. She studied with the Guild of Sommeliers and worked tasting rooms across California wine country before moving to Nashville in 2017 and joining City Winery in 2018. She's known for her whiskey barrel-aged wines.
Tristan Bohling
Winemaker, Atlanta
Raised around the Atlanta food scene thanks to his chef father, Tristan began his wine journey in 2015 and worked harvests at Amici Cellars in Napa and R. Stuart and Co. in the Willamette Valley. In 2019 he joined City Winery Atlanta, working his way up from Tasting Room Associate to Wine Technician to Winemaker.
Rachel Navarro
Assistant Winemaker, Chicago
Rachel brings a strong science background in enology and viticulture from California State University, Fresno, with experience in chemistry, lab work, and plant pathology. She's worked with the USDA and at premium estates including Ponte and Bottaia Winery in California before joining City Winery Chicago in 2022. Favorite varieties: Riesling and Italian varietals.
Bettinelli Vineyards
Napa Valley, California
Bettinelli Vineyards started in 1990. Based in the Oak Knoll area between Napa and Yountville, the company farms hundreds of acres. Owned by fifth generation Napa Valley farms, Bettinelli has been honored by the Napa Valley Grapegrowers organization for their contributions to local wine business and community.
Scopus Vineyards
Sonoma County, California
Farmed by one of California’s most respected vineyard management teams, the Scopus vineyard is 15 acres, all Chardonnay, sitting at roughly 700 feet above sea level, sloping eastward above the town of Glen Ellen in Sonoma County.
Bacigalupi Vineyard
Russian River Valley, California
Bacigalupi Vineyards have been owned and grown by the Bacigalupi family since 1956. The family gained recognition as growers during the 1976 Paris tasting when the 1973 Napa Valley Chardonnay from Château Montelena with Bacigalupi fruit triumphed over many acclaimed French wines to be declared the undisputed winner.
Durant Vineyards
Willamette Valley, Oregon
The family that operates the Durant Vineyards have been farming in the Willamette Valley for over 5 generations. In 1973, they were among the first in Oregon to attempt growing wine grapes in the Dundee Hills, and the area has since grown into one of the most popular terroirs for Pinot Noir in the world.
Uva Blanca Vineyard
Finger Lakes, New York
The Uva Blanca vineyard is nestled at the base of Lake Seneca, in Hector, NY. Known for its signature view, overlooking Seneca Lake, the Uva Blanca vineyard is one of the preeminent growers in the Finger Lakes.
Obsidian Ridge Vineyard
Napa Valley, California
In 1973, Michael Terrien, Peter Molnar, and Arpad Molnar planted a vineyard on an old abandoned walnut orchard high in the Napa Valley. They soon discovered that they were farming on a volcano, on a ridge of solid black Obsidian glass. Today, the extreme climate, altitude, and volcanics result in a cabernet sauvignon like no other.
Windrem Vineyard
Lake County, California
The Windrem Vineyard is located along Kelsey Creek in the Big Valley area of Lake County. The soils are alluvial, well drained and limiting with small rock cobbles from the former creek bed.
Poseidon Vineyard
Napa Carneros, California
Established in 1974, Poseidon Vineyard is the southernmost vineyard in Napa Carneros. Known for producing highly acclaimed wines, this vineyard has produced top scoring wines. Its terroir of gravel and clay, combined with the cool Carneros climate, makes it an ideal site for growing expressive Chardonnay.
Alder Springs Vineyards
Mendocino County, California
Formerly the site of a cattle ranch in far northern Mendocino County, the land that would become Alder Springs Ranch was purchased by Stu Bewley in 1991 after he carefully studied over 40 potential sites. He found the hilly landscape offers nearly perfect growing conditions: bright sun, cool nights, phenomenal low-vigor soils.