Wine and Dine with MacLaren Wines
Thursday, September 24th | 5–9pm | $110 per person
Our monthly Wine and Dine series brings the vineyard to your table—and this month, we're welcoming a producer built on a single obsession: cool-climate Syrah.
MacLaren Wines takes its name from winemaker Steve Law's Scottish clan—a fitting tribute for a project rooted in identity and place. A native Scot, Steve's path to wine wound through Paris, Burgundy, Bordeaux, and the Loire before the northern Rhône Valley took hold of him for good, and it was the wines of Saint-Joseph and Côte-Rôtie that sealed his fate as a Syrah devotee. After cutting his teeth in Dry Creek Valley, he and his wife Heather bottled their first vintage in 2007—a bold, full-bodied Dry Creek Syrah that set them searching for something more elegant. That search led them to the fog-cooled corners of Sonoma County's Russian River and Bennett Valleys, where MacLaren has spent nearly two decades crafting Rhône-inspired wines that speak to place over trend.
Today, from their home base in Kenwood, MacLaren has built a reputation as one of California's most focused producers of cool-climate Syrah, alongside Viognier, Roussanne, and Pinot Noir. "I don't really follow the trends," Steve has said. "Whether it's fashionable or not, Syrah is my favorite grape, and that's why I'm making it."
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For $110 per person, you're getting a seat at the table with one of Sonoma's most singularly focused winemakers—told by the person who's spent nearly twenty years chasing it—alongside a seasonal menu built to meet every glass where it is.
Space is limited. Reserve your spot and come taste what an obsession with the Rhône looks like in the glass.