Arietta 20th Anniversary Wine Dinner

Date: October 5, 2016

Time: 7:00pm

Event Type: Wine Dinner

Price: $275 per Guest Plus tax and gratuity

Fritz Hatton, Owner

Fritz Hatton and his immediate family own Arietta, one of Napa’s top producers of Bordeaux-style blended wines. He is also the nation’s most experienced wine auctioneer, having begun his career in Christie’s Wine Department in 1980. After a twelve year management career for Christie’s in North America and the Far East, Fritz took a musical sabbatical on the West Coast in the early 1990s, and conducted his first auction for the Napa Valley Vintners in 1992. Out of his musical and wine country experiences with his winemaker friend John Kongsgaard emerged a wine brand with a musically inspired name: Arietta. In 1995 Fritz returned to Christie’s as Director of Christie's U.S. Wine Auction Department, and remained until he returned to California in 1998 to launch Arietta with his wife Caren.

Fritz and Caren Hatton reside in Napa, California with their two daughters, Libby and Hattie. Apart from family and wine, his major interest is classical music, and he is just as happy playing the piano as he is encouraging bidders to turn cash into collectible wine.