Photographs of the winery decorate the restaurant's deep red walls.
There will be live music and tours of the winery, farm and a farm museum.
The family announced that Gerhard would take charge of the winery.
Each chair is branded with the name of the winery where the barrel was used.
But the executive director of the winery, Youki Hirayama, said that beyond that, his company is focusing on Asian markets.
The tasting marked the 150th anniversary of the winery, which was founded in 1861 by a Prussian immigrant.
I became chief operating officer of the winery at 33 and started traveling the world as its spokesman.
It offers no harvest reports, no tales of the winery cat, not even a single obvious plug for Shafer wines.
The opulence of the winery made the men recall tougher times, once we were back on the road.
The cause was a blood infection, said his daughter Kathy Le Morzellec, the business manager of the winery, Palmer Vineyards.
"People are always looking in," Michael Dorf, the proprietor, said during a tour of the winery last week.
