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Jubilee Wine Country Talent

 

Meet Our Keynote Speaker: Dominique Crenn

We’re excited to share that Chef Dominique Crenn is the keynote speaker at Jubilee Wine Country! Dominique is one of the most talented and fascinating folks in the food world. Named to this year’s TIME 100, she’s an environmentalist, philanthropist, cancer survivor, author, and humanitarian. She is also the celebrated chef behind Atelier Crenn, Bar Crenn, and Petit Crenn in San Francisco and the regenerative Bleu Belle Farm in Sonoma County. And you might have noticed, but Dominique is also our cover star on The Paris Issue of Cherry Bombe Magazine!
 
 
 

 

 

Amelia Morán Ceja

 
Jeni Britton
Founder of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams &
the latest Cherry Bombe Cover Star
 
 
Tanya Holland
 
Award-Winning Chef, Author & Restaurateur
 
Photo by Marina Harrison
 
 
 
 
 

 

SATURDAY, OCT. 26TH
 

 

10–11 A.M.
Welcome & Networking 
 
11 A.M.–12:30 P.M.
Programming Session #1 
 
12:30–2 P.M.
 Picnic Lunch on the Lawn
 
2–3:30 P.M.
 Programming Session #2
 
3:30–7 P.M.
 Afternoon Activities
 
7–9:30 P.M 

Wine, Women & Song

(Dine-around and wine-tasting event)

 
 
 
SUNDAY, OCT. 27TH
 

11 A.M.–12:30 P.M.

Bakers' Brunch

 

12:30–2 P.M.

Programming Session #3

 

5–7 P.M.

Industry Networking Event

(Invitation only)

 

 

 

 
President & CEO of Ceja Vineyards
 
Amelia Morán Ceja was born in Las Flores, Jalisco, Mexico. She immigrated to the United States in 1967 to join her father, a farmworker in Rutherford in the Napa Valley. On her first weekend, Amelia was in the vineyard, harvesting grapes alongside her family where she met her future husband Pedro Ceja. Amelia fell in love with grape growing, and throughout her teenage and college years during school vacations, she continued working in the vineyards gaining deeper understanding on viticulture and winemaking.
 
Amelia studied history and literature at UC San Diego, and in 1980, Amelia and Pedro were married. In 1983 Amelia with Pedro, his brother and his parents purchased their first property in Carneros in the Napa Valley. They planted their first grapes in the Carneros AVA in 1986, and Amelia, Pedro, her brother-in-law and his wife founded Ceja Vineyards in 1999. Today the family owns 115 acres in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. Amelia has become an impassioned advocate for the value and fair treatment of farm workers, following in the footsteps of her father Felipe Morán’s work with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers labor union in the early 1970s. In 2016, Amelia received the Dolores Huerta Farmworker Justice Award for her successful advocacy for Worker Protection Standard on pesticides. Her leadership of Ceja Vineyards is also groundbreaking, as she became the first Mexican-American woman ever to be elected president of a winery in 1999. In 2005, the California Legislature recognized Amelia as “Woman of the Year” for “breaking the glass ceiling in a very competitive business.”
 
Ceja Vineyards produces 7,000 cases per year, her brother-in-law serving as winemaker. Amelia launched video blogs in 2008 on preparing Mexican cuisine and pairing it with wine, embracing both her Mexican heritage and American home. Amelia combines the best of what she finds in food and drink, tradition and innovation.