Our Food and Wine pairing event with two small local businesses, Flourless Patisserie and Rucksack Cellars.
Saturday, May 3 at 6pm at Rucksack Cellars, 3030 Carson Road in beautiful Camino, CA.
We will be pairing four Rucksack wines with four Gluten-Free courses from Flourless Patisserie.
Tickets are $50/person ($45/person for club members) and can be purchased by staying on this website, clicking the “STORE” tab across the top banner, followed by clicking on the “EVENTS AND MERCHANDISE” tab.
These are small dinner events that have been extremely popular in the past, only 25 tickets, and they have previously sold out quickly, so get your tickets now!
For the 2025 season at Rucksack Cellars, we are bring back our incredibly popular flower arranging classes. However, that is only half of the exciting news…Mel is also returning this season to guide us through the arranging and we are incredibly thrilled to welcome her back!!!
For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of taking a class with Mel in the past, she is a local flower enthusiast who has been teaching classes for the last decade and has been a professional florist for almost 20 years.
Our first class this season with Mel, will be April 17, 2025 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at Rucksack Cellars. We are hosting a “Step Into Spring” flower class that highlights the prolific flowers in the foothills during this time of year. Come bask in the beauty with a Spring floral design class with Mel. The class will be using locally grown blooms provided by Frog Hollow Flower Farm and Treasures At The Barn.
This class has two price options. $55/person if you supply your own vase (vase openings should not exceed 4″) and $65/person if you would like us to supply you with a new vase. Tickets can be purchased by staying on this website and clicking on the “STORE” tab across the top banner, followed by clicking the “EVENTS AND MERCHANDISE” tab. Once there, simply choose the class option that you prefer.
Nobody is more excited than us here at Rucksack to welcome in our 2025 season. We can’t wait to see all of our wonderful Rucksack patrons and share our wines with you once again.
We have been working hard getting the grounds and building prepared to welcome you all. As it is March, the weather is unpredictable (we finally got a few flakes of snow…woo hoo) and it is still a bit chilly, so we will be tasting primarily in our Rucksack building. However…for you brave souls, the patio has been groomed and there will be a few tables outside as well.
The first tasting flight of the season is:
2023 – Chardonnay
2023 – Barbera Rosé
2017 – Barbera
2018 – The Cache
2022 – Zinfandel
Rucksack will be open for our normal business hours of Thursday thru Sunday, 12pm to 5pm.
We are so excited to see you all and kick off our 2025 season!
We are planning our first event of 2025 at Rucksack Cellars, our GSM Blending Class.
Do you want to be a winemaker? Or maybe just find out what goes into blending a wine? Learn from Paul Bush, winemaker for Madroña Vineyards and Rucksack Cellars. Taste each wine in its 100% varietal form, and then begin to play! Bottle your own GSM at the end of the event for an additional $28.00 (limit 1 per participant).
These are small classes, and a great way to learn – only 24 people per session. The first session is at 11am and the second begins at 2:30pm, both on March 29.
Tickets are $45/person or $35/person for club members. Limit of 4 tickets per membership and can be purchased by staying on the website, clicking on the “STORE” tab across the top banner, followed by clicking on the “EVENTS AND MERCHANDISE” tab.
Tickets are selling fast so be sure to grab yours and we will see you on the 29th at Rucksack Cellars.
First off, I want to start by saying Happy New Year from Rucksack Cellars. We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas Season and rang in the new year fabulously with all your friends and family held close. We wish you all health, happiness, prosperity and lots of Rucksack wine in 2025. (See what I did there?)
Well the time has come when Rucksack temporarily closes for a few winter months. However, when we close it gives us the opportunity to plan for 2025, but more importantly we can reflect on the previous year. Rucksack continues to grow with the support of its incredible community both near and far. We could not exist without you, your support, and for that we are incredibly thankful. We are the lucky ones, because you all have chosen to support us and we know there are lots of worthy choices.
Right now Rucksack is scheduled to re-open in March of 2025. However, as I have told many of you when you came in to visit before we closed for the season, stay tuned to this newsletter as well as our social media pages. At the end of January, beginning of February, if we are seeing a weekend or two of predictable nice weather, we will open so that you can come up for your Rucksack wine winter experience. Honestly…it’s just really hard for me to go two whole months without seeing you all, so this would really be more for me.
Thank you again for all your support in 2024, stay warm and cozy during these winter months, stay tuned to all the “happenings” at Rucksack and we very much look forward to seeing and serving you soon!
It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas…well it certainly will be once you pick up that perfect Christmas tree.
On December 7, 2024 Rucksack will be having its annual Christmas tree sale beginning at 9am. Multiple varieties of Christmas trees, you pick the perfect tree and we cut it, all sizes for the amazing price of $100. WHAT!?!?! That is any size or any variety tree, from 3 feet to 15 feet for $100…sounds like an amazing deal!
Once you pick that perfect tree, be sure to memorialize the event with a family photo in front of our beautiful Rucksack sleigh and then stroll on over to the Rucksack Cellars tasting building and enjoy a wine flight, glass of Apple Cider or a charcuterie board.
Sounds like a perfect way to spend a day and make some wonderful family memories!
We still must be out of our minds…but it’s been working because the cases of Rosé are flying out, but plenty still remain, so for the remainder of the season or while supplies last, we are offering one of our most popular wines at an absolutely incredible deal.
We are offering a case sale on our 2023 Barbera Rosé, each case is only $120, that works out to $10 per bottle of this delicious wine. With notes of strawberry, melon and citrus, this wine pairs wonderfully with spicier dishes, appetizers and charcuterie.
Come in to Rucksack Cellars and take advantage of this amazing opportunity.
It’s that time of the year again when we spark up the fireplaces and embrace the holiday season with our wreath-making class! Join us in the Rucksack Cellars building on December 5th for holiday music, a glass of wine, cedar and fir boughs.
Led by Beverly Glass from Frogs Hollow Flower Farm and Teresa Brewster from Treasures at the Barn. Spots are limited, so get your tickets today! Note, this class will now be held in the Rucksack Cellars Building at 3030 Carson Road, Camino CA.
Tickets are available by staying on this website, clicking on the “STORE” tab followed by the the “EVENTS AND MERCHANDISE” tab.
The setting for the event was gorgeous outside on our loved Rucksack patio. It was decorated with fresh cut locally sourced flower arrangements, twinkling solar powered lights and tea light candles, all with the backdrop of our Rucksack vineyard and setting sun.
Now I am not going to say that our first Rucksack Club Dinner was perfect, because we always try to improve and we will try to make our next dinner even an even greater experience for all our guests. However, I will say that I don’t think there is a single thing that I would change about our event last Saturday evening.
We had a full patio of guests who enjoyed a three course meal. The evening started with a flatbread pizza topped with mozzarella and goat cheese, fresh mushrooms, sautéed onions, arugula, all drizzled with a basaltic reduction and paired with our Non-Vintage GSM. The second course was the famous Bush family recipe for Paella, containing sausage, shrimp and chicken with a garden green beet salad on the side. This second course paired beautifully with three Rucksack wines, our Chenin Blanc, Barbera Rosé and Seco (Portuguese Blend). The evening concluded with a peach and blueberry cobbler topped with homemade whipped cream and paired with our Moscato.
If your mouth is watering as much as mine is recalling the delicious menu, and I was there, then be sure to keep an out for our next Rucksack Club dinner or event. You won’t want to miss it!
This class will be held at Rucksack Cellars, 3030 Carson Road in Camino, on October 23, 2024 from 5pm to 7pm. (Please note the earlier time due to sunset) Beverly Glass and Teresa Brewster, of the local flower farms Treasures At The Barn and Frog Hollow Flower Farm, will guide us while we create beautifully personalized Pumpkin arrangements and centerpieces while you sip on a glass of Rucksack wine.
Please provide your own, previously cleaned and prepared (in order to save time) pumpkin for this class. You are welcome to bring either a real or ceramic pumpkin. If you choose to bring a real pumpkin, Beverly and Teresa will help you condition the pumpkin to last longer. Your ticket price of $65 includes all of the flowers used for the arrangements, provided by our teachers and sourced locally, and your first glass of Rucksack wine.
A perfect event for date night, girls night out, mother/daughter evening or just an opportunity to gather outside with a group of friends. We look forward to seeing you!
To purchase ticket, simply stay on this website and click on the “STORE” tab followed by the “EVENTS AND MERCHANDISE” tab.
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