Seminars and company events
Concannon Vineyard hosts corporate meetings, weddings and private dinners in eleven indoor and outdoor spaces, the largest seating up to 168 guests in the Grand Barrel Room. The estate is on Tesla Road in Livermore, in the Livermore Valley wine region east of San Francisco Bay, and its original winery is a registered California Historical Landmark.
For business groups, the Legacy Ballroom is the meeting room. It has been fully renovated and seats up to 114, with a built-in AV system, microphones and confidence monitors, and its layout can change between sessions. A program can open in the ballroom, break for lunch on the terrace and end with dinner in the Grand Barrel Room, set between two 70-year-old upright French oak casks. The Historic Wine Library, which holds more than 3,000 bottles reaching back to Prohibition, takes a seated dinner for 24, a good size for a board or a client table. The Estate Room, seating 45, works for a smaller working session.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings use the estate's outdoor settings as well as its rooms. The Ellen Rowe Victorian House, built in 1885, has a lawn for ceremonies, luncheons and sunset dinners, with room for 150 seated or standing. The Grape Arbor seats 100 or takes 150 standing and is also used for ceremonies. The Main Lawn seats 150 and the Pavilion 70, and the Bubbles Lounge and Breezeway, an open-air patio beside Pinot Noir vines, suits a cocktail hour for 75. Receptions can then move indoors to the Grand Barrel Room.
Rooms and capacities
The Grand Barrel Room seats up to 168. The Legacy Ballroom seats up to 114. The Ellen Rowe Victorian House takes 150 seated or standing, and the Main Lawn 150 seated. The Grape Arbor seats 100 or holds 150 standing. The Bubbles Lounge and Breezeway seats 40 or holds 75 standing. The Pavilion seats 70. Around the tasting room, the Terrace seats 60, the Estate Room 45 and the Tasting Room 40. The Historic Wine Library seats 24 or holds 30 standing.
History and setting
The estate dates from 1883, and its history gallery follows the family and the winery through Prohibition, with rare Prohibition-era Concannon bottles on display. Captain Joe Concannon, the second generation, released a 1925 Riesling that the winery presents as the first varietal wine label in the United States. The gallery also covers the development of the Concannon Cabernet clones, and John Concannon dedicated it in 2016 to his father, Jim Concannon. The tasting room was dedicated as a historic landmark in 1958 and renewed in 2009, and the original winery was restored over a ten-year revitalization of the estate.
Getting there
The estate is at 4590 Tesla Road, Livermore, CA 94550, in the vineyards southeast of downtown Livermore. The Livermore station of the Altamont Corridor Express and the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station are the nearest rail links, and Oakland International Airport is the closest major airport. Most guests arrive by car, and organisers bringing a group from San Francisco or the South Bay usually plan a coach.
