Together we can.

We believe when we come together to support organizations like JDRF Seattle Guild, we can make a difference in our community.

At Washington Trust, can’t is not an option.

We thank our wine hosts for sharing their remarkable wines with our patrons this evening.

Avennia

Côte Bonneville

Dunham Cellars

Latta Wines

Long Shadows Vintners

Matteo Wines

Chris Nishiwaki

Novelty Hill / Januik Winery

Sightglass Cellars

CHEERS AND THANK YOU!

Avennia

Our goal at Avennia is to make wines that evoke clarity: clarity of place, clarity of type, clarity of purpose. We believe this is best expressed by using the classic French varietals and blends, with methods passed down over generations. We work within this context to allow Washington vineyards and terroirs to distinguish themselves. Terroir is only readily appreciable in a well-formed, harmonious wine. Structure is the backbone from which beauty can radiate. www.avennia.com

Côte Bonneville

In 1992, Hugh and Kathy Shiels planted DuBrul Vineyard. The steep southfacing hillside yields grapes with unique flavors and structure. In 2001, we founded Côte Bonneville to produce classically styled wines that best express our spectacular site. Kerry, our winemaker, creates beautiful wines from all our varietals, showcasing each terroir. www.cotebonneville.com

Dunham Cellars

Celebrating over 25 years of making wine, Dunham Cellars strives for excellence from vineyard to bottle, and sources fruit from several renowned estate vineyards in prime locations around the Walla Walla and Columbia Valley appellations. With a strong heritage and a brand well-known throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond, we are committed to producing premium wines through gentle treatment in all phases of the winemaking process. Our goal is to bring something to the bottle that we enjoy and are proud to label with the name Dunham. www.dunhamcellars.com

Latta Wines

Andrew Latta founded Latta Wines with the 2011 vintage to pursue excellence in uncommon varietals from outstanding sites. Previously as a winemaker for a larger Washington winery, he was able to scour thousands of acres of vineyard land to find perfect matches of soil and grapes for his own project. In his winemaking career, Andrew has received more than 350 scores of 90 points or higher with 75 of those being 95 or higher. Andrew’s uncompromising hands-on winemaking is marked by low intervention and traditional techniques pursuing texture, balance and intensity. His wines are hand-made, extremely small lot, and delicious. www.lattawines.com

Long Shadows Vintners

Long Shadows Vintners is a partnership that brings seven of the world’s most celebrated winemakers to Washington State’s Columbia Valley. Each partner crafts a single, stand-alone wine using grape varietals for which he is best known. Long Shadows founder and Washington wine trailblazer Allen Shoup facilitated the collaboration with Gilles Nicault as Director of Winemaking and Viticulture. Produced at a state-of-the-art winery in Walla Walla, each of these seven, distinct wines comprise the Long Shadows Vintners collection. www.longshadows.com

Matteo Wines

Winemaker Matthew Loso joins us this evening to showcase his personal creation, Matteo Wines. Matthew’s passion for wine was sparked at a young age and in 1992 Matthew became Cellarmaster and Winemaker at a small winery in Woodinville. This resulted in the first commercial production of Matthews Cellars in 1993, this first vintage completely sold out in 30 days. By 1997, Matthews Cellars had become one of the most well-known and well-respected wineries in Washington State. Following the 2008 sale of his Matthews Cellars ownership stake, Matthew Loso launched Woodinville-based “Woodinville Custom Crush.” This rapidly growing alternative state-of-the-art winemaking facility allows existing and startup producers the ability to focus on quality and marketing, while Loso and his highly-qualified team manage production. Matthews’s goal has always been to bring the best that the industry has to offer from around the world to our front door. As a source of artistic outlet, Matthew also began his own private labeled wine called “Matteo.” This is a very small production of particular varietals that is reserved for charitable events and an extremely limited mailing list following. www.matteowines.com

Chris Nishiwaki

Chris Nishiwaki is a Mercer Island-based wine, food, restaurant, travel and hospitality writer, and a television and film consultant. Chris has apprenticed in winemaking since the 2013 vintage under Josh Lawrence and Aryn Morell of Walla Walla’s M&L Production, crafting wines for Matthew’s Winery, Tenor, Alleromb, Mullan Road, Gard Vintners, Royal Bull, MorellPeña, and Ardor Cellars. Chris has written for a variety of publications, including The Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine, and Seattle Metropolitan Magazine. He has contributed to Andrew Zimmerman’s “Bizarre Foods,” Marcus Samuelsson’s “No Passport Required” and Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations,” among others. He is currently producing a film about the seminal music label Sub Pop Records.

Novelty Hill / Januik Winery

Novelty Hill and Januik are two independent wineries that share a destination tasting room, production facility, and special events venue in Woodinville, under the direction of Mike Januik, one of Washington’s most acclaimed winemakers. The partnership began in 2000, shortly after Mike met the Alberg family and began consulting on the planting of a new vineyard, later to be named Stillwater Creek. Being a vintner, Mike couldn’t imagine owning grapes without making wine. It didn’t take much to convince the Albergs; later that year, they established Novelty Hill with Mike at the winemaking helm. After crushing two vintages in Walla Walla, the operation moved to Woodinville in 2002, and five years later relocated to the stylish, modern, state-of-the-art facility the two wineries currently share. www.noveltyhilljanuik.com

Sightglass Cellars

Sean Boyd has been making wine in Woodinville for over two decades, establishing a reputation for high-quality, award-winning wines while winemaker at Woodinville Wine Cellars, then opening his own winery, Sightglass Cellars 8 years ago. Working with exceptional vineyards and focusing on varietal expression, Sean has solidified his reputation in the Washington Wine community. But his love of wine and interest in winemaking started years earlier. Sean grew up in California around the wine industry, worked in some wine shops and then essentially apprenticed himself to some exceptional winemakers at wineries throughout the world including Penfolds and Rosemount Estates in Australia, Ramos Pinto in Portugal, and Miguel Torres in Spain. Taking the knowledge gained from working around the world, Sean took the leap to Washington in 1998, seeing the young wine industry was taking off, and knowing he could be a part of making some very special wines. www.sightglasscellars.com

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Thank You

The generosity of our JDRF Dream Gala community of sponsors, donors, volunteers, gala patrons, and Seattle Guild members is remarkable. We appreciate your support.

32nd Annual Dream Gala Leadership

2023 Dream Gala Co-Chairs

Daniela Dombrowski and Michael Boyle

DECOR CO-CHAIRS

Daniela Dombrowski

Mary Lee

GIFTS CHAIR

Nichole Jacobson

PROCUREMENT CO-CHAIRS

Victoria Woodarski

Caleb Andres

Derek Brendt

SILENT AUCTION PRODUCTION CHAIR

Barbara Zweig

SPONSOR CO-CHAIRS

Alan Bornstein

Jim Waskom

WINERY HOST CHAIR

Chris Nishiwaki

With Special Thanks

to the JDRF Seattle Guild board members, and to the many guild members and volunteers who served on committees and contributed to producing this evening.