2023: Our year in review

Cheers to 2023, a year we’ll remember forever. We moved Backstage Winery to our new location, in the Oak Knoll District of the Napa Valley, at the end of 2022, and spent 2023 enjoying it with everyone who came by for tastings, tours and parties!

Here’s a look back at some of our top memories from 2023, at Backstage Winery in Napa and the Backstage Wine Bar in Marin:

We started the year off pouring flights inside the tasting room at our new headquarters, at 4162 Big Ranch Road, Napa. We finished renovating the tasting room in December 2022 and began welcoming our first guests inside just before the new year.

We opened our 2019 vintage in our tasting rooms this year and scored great feedback from critics. In January, two of our 2019 Cabernet Sauvignons won double-gold medals in the American Fine Wine Competition.

While winter rains drenched the Napa Valley, we completed the renovation of our event center at Backstage Winery, where we host private group tastings, wine club gatherings and parties.

Spring marked the start of another grape growing season, as buds broke on the vines and Napa turned green again.

We hosted our first outdoor tastings, in the cobblestone courtyard and beside the vineyards, as the weather warmed up.

At the Backstage Wine Bar in Marin, warm days meant wine and food at the fireside tables.

We hosted The Bachelor Sweden at Backstage Winery in the spring. The crew was busy filming in our vineyards while the grapes grew.

Summer was party season. We hosted several private gatherings and welcomed the community for Silent Disco, a Wine Club get-together and more!

Fall marked another successful harvest. The winemaking process for these 2023 grapes will continue throughout 2024 and beyond.

2023 marked 30 years of winemaking for Backstage founder and winemaker Angelo Pera, who made his first wine in 1993.

Cheers, and thank you for your support! We can’t wait to see you Backstage in 2024!