Every spring we are blessed to have a glorious Rosé party to look forward to… The Pink Party, which started as a gathering of ‘local’ winemakers 11 years ago and has stayed, miraculously, local and remarkable. Pink is a celebration of the magnificent Sonoma and Mendocino wine sheds surrounding us-a grand soirée of delicious bites, DJ vibes, garden rooms full to bursting with farm grown spring florals.

It’s also a celebration that gives back, as every year we raffle full cases by all the wines poured generously donated by the wineries in support of Corazon Healdsburg, and the many essential services it offers.

For many of us Pink is the event that launches the season… a chance to dress up, sip, schmooz, and just bask in the glory of the light that is life in Healdsburg in Spring.

Pink is a delicious celebration of craft, community, and joy. It’s going to be a great afternoon you will not want to miss. Consider this your shout out. Join us!

(*Coming with your Pink Party Posse? use ‘posse’ on check out for a $95 discount )

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press we’re Very proud of!

What a delight to see Olivia and Brooks’ wedding in the pages of Sonoma Magazine and the Press Democrat this month. This one had everything to touch the heart: a ceremony at the couples church here in town, with another a few days later in our gardens followed a blow out celebration for this beloved home town couple, who, as it turned out choose Barndiva in part because it was the favorite restaurant of Olivia’s family when she was growing up. History! Township! Love! Please check out the credits on this one as every collaborator did a stellar job. Read the full article here.

meanwhile in philo…

Pruning, planting, fence mending, stopping often to marvel at the beauty of life bursting forth around us - this is what’s getting us through these days of confusing, perilous, and oh so senseless events unfolding at whiplash speed in the world. Stay connected, don’t tune out! Just take care to check in with what’s beautiful and fragrant right now. We invite you to drop into Studio Barndiva to enjoy the floral displays coming from the farm. Grab a glass of Rosé, one of Isabel’s new NA cocktails, or something stronger. We’d love you to stay for a bite, but it’s not mandatory, just come enjoy the gardens. We open at 5, Thursday through Monday.

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A familiar complaint we’ve all heard around town of late is about the dearth of genuine community in Healdsburg. It’s a grumbling refrain that holds particular meaning from anyone that remembers Healdsburg when the words quaint and small town charm could be said about it with a straight face. The usual culprits are a mind boggling collection of new businesses, hotels and restaurants that have opened over the past few years to capitalize on the town’s ‘success’ as a destination location, but the quickening pace of our lives, and the emotional distancing of technology certainly contribute to the disconnect at the heart of the discontent.

The way we see it, community isn’t stagnant, is should and must accommodate change. It’s a layered human construct that is constantly telegraphing across the web of seemingly random connections we make with the people whose paths we cross as we go about our lives, working, shopping, dining out, walking the dogs or, yes, coming out on a beautiful afternoon to taste wine. Of course It can be locational, found in the church hall, a sporting event, working alongside neighbors at the local food pantry, but we are creating it all the time, with every interaction. It starts with a desire to connect, is sustained by courtesy, respect, and common interests, and, if you are lucky enough to find them, shared goals.

If the only goal is to make money, if you don’t truly care about your product, respect or spend the time getting to know the people you live and work alongside, you cannot sustain genuine community. Especially in small towns like ours, relationships reverberate in subtle ways when you pay attention; good will resonates whether you’ve known someone for years, or just met them by chance. Community can happen in an afternoon – as it did on Pink Party Sunday. The thing that makes it real is the genuine presence you bring to it, no matter what role you play.

The winemakers who gathered in our gardens to pour their Rosé’s at this years Pink Party, who charmed and educated the guests who came to meet them and admire their craft, are a community with like minded goals, just as the slow flower farmers who grew the blooms we sourced to help create dazzling displays, and the food purveyors like Chef Mike Degan, The Healdsburg Bagel Company, Chef Anderson. Our wonderful staff here at Barndiva, the amazing Corazón crew lead by Ashley Mauritson, Alexis Ioconis who steered the wine ship for us for this years Pink on top of everything else she does, Amber Kneally who sewed our Pink Party Pirate flag at the last minute simply because we asked her to - these are the members of our community we depend upon who bring quality and meaning to our lives as we work through them. Dawnelise and Ari Rosen, last seen leading a joyous if bittersweet progression at the closing of campo fino with patrons who very much considered themselves a community - came to help raise funds and awareness for Corazón, the community organization they founded that focuses upon strengthening families at the very heart of hospitality in Healdsburg. Community is everywhere you choose to see it, and engage with it.

I want to give a special shout out to the many beautiful women in their pink dresses who danced together at the end of the day, as the rest of us looked on beneath the wisteria enjoying the same breeze and listening to the music. It felt so good just to be together and celebrate spring, and the abundance of Healdsburg.

The fabulous Pink Party Line Up for 2023:
@bloodrootwines, @almafriawines, @prestonfarmandwinery, @raftwines, @mauritsonwines, @idlewildwines, @jolielaidewines, @drinkseppi, @cruxwinery, @amistavineyards, @bricoleurvineyards, @brickandmortarwines, @stephane.vivier.wines, @reevewines, @daniel_sonoma, @handleycellars, @flowerswinery, @roedererestate, @grosventrewines, @breathlesswines, @dunstanwine, @tberkleywines, @marinelayerwines, @scharffenbergercellars, @hirschvineyards, @domainesott, @matanzascreekwinery, @liocowineco, @cruesswine, @leosteen_wines, @theharrisgalleryandwine, @ernestvineyards, @rootdownwines, @county_line_vineyards, @copainwines, @drinkkally, @altaorsowinery, @captûrewines, @untiwines.com, @guv_hales, @natalienelsonkirby

Special Friends who always bring it: Chef Francisco, Alexis Ioconis, Ari Rosen & Geoffrey Hales, Scott Beattie (in search of a cocktail no doubt), the irrepressible Susan Preston, Lukka Feldman in from London, Releigh and Asijah, Barndiva’s wine Director Emily Carlson, Eric Sussman, Dan Fitzgerald, Jil Hales & Chappy Cottrell, Dawnelise Rosen, and another belle of the ball in her pink frock, Birdy.

Our thanks to all the winemakers for donating to the raffle benefiting Corazón.

Healdsburg has an abundance of vital community organizations that welcome new energy - join one!

All photographs by the incredible Chad Surmick can be shared. TM us @barndivahealdsburg. And heads up: If you are one of many who missed attending when The Pink Party because it sold out so early, consider signing up to receive our newsletter, Eat the View, so you are first to know about future public events. we’ve got some doozies up our sleeves.

Tickets are now on sale for Fête Blanc, August 20.