This is weekly feature post I will now do every Thursday to tell you about upcoming events in Yountville and around the Napa Valley. Please visit and enjoy one or more of these and tell them Curtis sent you.
Featured Events
Napa Valley Film Festival November 8-12, 2017
Uptown Theatre, Napa
The Napa Valley Film Festival November 8 – November 12
The Fab Four The Ultimate Tribute November 25 @ 8:00 pm

For shows at Blue Note Napa Valley photo from their website
Copia CIA Events information from their website
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Special Guest and a Rising Star CIA Chef – NVFF
Thursday, November 9 2017 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Get excited for a special guest who will cook for this lucky crowd of film, food and wine lovers alongside a talented CIA Chef. Expect to be surprised and delighted while enjoying a glass from one of Vintage Wine Estates esteemed brands. Napa Valley Vintners Theater
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Breaking Down the Fine Line – NVFF
Friday, November 10 2017 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Join filmmakers and cast of A Fine Line with CIA Chefs Sandy Sauter and Anne Cornell-Krauss as they break down the history of women commanding the kitchen and what it really means to be a female chef. Napa Valley Vintners Theater
Saturday, November 11 2017
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“France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child” Book Signing
Saturday, November 11 2017 – 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Meet Julia Childs’ great-nephew, Alex Prud’homme, and Katie Pratt for a book signing celebrating the release of their new book France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child.
The Store at CIA Copia
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Mastering “Blind” Tasting with Master Sommelier, Ian Cauble of SOMM – NVFF
Saturday, November 11 2017 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
If you’ve ever wondered how professionals train for the tasting portion of the grueling Master Sommelier exam, join Ian Cauble – a Master Sommelier and one of the stars from the film SOMM – for a blind tasting of 6 classic wines. Can you identify them without seeing the bottles? Learn how Ian breaks it down in this fasicinating seminar. Napa Valley Vintners Theater
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Wine Break! Have a Stella Artois, My Friend – NVFF
Sunday, November 12 2017 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Wine is not the only beverage that goes well with food… have a cold Stella Artois… or two. Stella beer experts team up with the chefs at CIA to pair Stella with delicious cuisine you might not expect to go well with beer. Napa Valley Vintners Theate
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Let’s Eat Some Bugs Everybody! – NVFF
Sunday, November 12 2017 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Last but not least, we leave you with what might very well be a taste of the future. Filmmakers of our creepy crawliest documentary of the fest, The Gateway Bug, and CIA Chef Hilary Sullivan, dive deep into the reality of the culinary wave that is bug eating. It sounds gross right? Wrong. Watch this film and you will be first in line to try some crunchy critters. Napa Valley Vintners Theater
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