Mixology, Bubbles + Caviar

Name: Mixology, Bubbles + Caviar
Start: 2026-09-12T14:00:00
Location: Andys Beeline Rooftop

You begin with bubbles, as Joy Sterling of Iron Horse Vineyards pours her celebrated estate sparkling alongside a Hog Island oyster crowned with caviar. As you taste, Otto of Tsar Nicoulai introduces you to the briny world of sustainable California caviar, the thread that runs through this pour and the two cocktails to follow. From there it is hands on the shaker. An Appellation mixologist demonstrates two cocktails built to pair with caviar, a perfect martini and a bright, shaken yuzu creation, and you mix each one yourself, then taste it against the bite chosen to match. Bubbles, then cocktail, then cocktail, every pour with its own perfect bite. When class winds down the indulgence rolls on, with Iron Horse and caviar specials at Beeline all evening.

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Andys Beeline Rooftop at Appellation Healdsburg

The Experience

Date: Saturday, September 12, 2026
Time: 2:00–4:00 pm
Location: Andys Beeline Rooftop, Appellation Healdsburg
Capacity: 12 guests
Price: $150 per guest

Presented with Iron Horse Vineyards, Tsar Nicoulai Caviar, and Hog Island Oyster Co. Iron Horse and caviar specials continue at Beeline all evening.

Features

Open with estate sparkling poured by Joy Sterling of Iron Horse Vineyards, paired with a Hog Island oyster crowned with caviar.
Learn the briny world of sustainable California caviar from Otto of Tsar Nicoulai, the thread running through every pour of the afternoon.
Shake two caviar-friendly cocktails yourself — a perfect martini and a bright yuzu creation — and taste each against the bite chosen to match it.

Host, Mixology, Bubbles + Caviar

Joy Sterling

CEO, Iron Horse Vineyards

Joy Sterling grew up in Paris and came home to Sonoma County with a European palate and a conviction that estate sparkling wine from here could stand with anything poured in France — a case she made at the White House in 1985, when Iron Horse was chosen for Ronald Reagan's toast to peace at the first summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev. A Yale-trained journalist before she was a winegrower, she has led Iron Horse as CEO since 2006 and bottles Ocean Reserve, a cuvée whose proceeds go to protecting the health of the ocean. At Beeline she pours, and explains why the bubbles matter.