Discovery Gathering

Scientific Tasting‑Menu Version (Pairing Wines with Geological Eras)

An evening where geology meets oenology.   This Discovery Gathering is crafted for adults who savor both the structure of a well‑made wine and the structure of the earth itself. The experience unfolds like a scientific tasting menu: each fossil specimen is paired with a wine whose character echoes the geological era it represents. Guests explore deep time through texture, mineral profile, and narrative — a multisensory journey across hundreds of millions of years.

The evening begins in the Cambrian, where early life flourished in warm, shallow seas. A crisp, high‑acid white — bright, clean, and elemental — mirrors the clarity of those first biological experiments. As guests examine trilobite impressions and early marine fossils, the wine’s mineral edge becomes a quiet analogue to the oceanic sediments that preserved them.

We move into the Devonian, the age of fishes and the rise of…