EXCEPTIONAL WINE × BUSINESS × RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL
Private Wine Salons Designed to Strengthen the Relationships That Matter Most
Uncorked with Christie sits at the intersection of exceptional Napa wine, business, and relationship capital.
Invite-only private Napa wine salons designed as relationship tools for family offices, private capital firms, founders, wealth managers, private client advisors, UHNW-facing professionals, luxury brands and private clients who want a more intentional way to bring together the people who matter most to their business and relationships. Curated by Christie Smith, a Napa-native sommelier, each salon is built around allocation-only Napa wines, library vintages, and personal producer relationships.
The wine creates a unique reason to gather, but the real value is the room: bringing together clients, investors, founders, strategic partners, referral partners, and private guests in an elevated and memorable setting where relationships can deepen naturally, without ever feeling transactional.
The wine opens the door. The relationships are what compound.
Meet Christie Smith
Why she built Uncorked with Christie at the intersection of exceptional wine, business, and relationship capital.
A More Unique Way to Convene Key Relationships
Salon (n.): an intimate, hosted gathering where select guests convene around ideas, conversation, and connection.
Christie's wine salons are a more unique and elevated way to bring together clients, investors, founders, referral partners, advisors, and trusted relationships in a setting that feels more intimate and memorable than a standard tasting, cocktail reception, client dinner, or networking event. The exclusive Napa wines create the reason to gather, but the real value is the room that's created, enabling deeper dialogue, stronger relationships, warmer introductions, and an experience that gives people a more natural way to connect.
Each salon is curated around the host's occasion, city, venue and relationship objective, whether the goal is to deepen top-client relationships, convene investors, engage referral partners, host a private family office gathering, celebrate a transaction, create a memorable private client experience or host private guests at a private estate or aboard a yacht in a more distinctive way.
Curated by a Napa Native Sommelier
Christie Smith is a Napa-native sommelier and founder of Uncorked with Christie, a luxury wine concierge specializing in private Napa wine salons, allocation access, and relationship-driven experiences.
Her edge extends well beyond wine. Before founding Uncorked with Christie, she managed a nine-figure P&L at Amazon, experience that taught her to think like an operator, understand the priorities of founders, investors, business leaders, and private clients, and design each salon around the relationships, conversations, and opportunities that matter most in the room.
Her approach is not about simply sourcing famous labels or chasing auction bottles. Christie introduces clients and guests to exceptional Napa producers, distinctive vineyard sites, library vintages, and allocation-only wines with the pedigree, scarcity, and story of the region’s most celebrated names, often bottles they would not otherwise encounter.
Having grown up in Napa, Christie brings a local perspective, trusted producer relationships, and access to wines unavailable online, through traditional retail, or without direct winery relationships and typically requiring waitlists. Her work is much more than a traditional sommelier-led tasting: she helps clients use wine as a way to gather the right people, deepen important relationships, discover and collect exceptional bottles, create meaningful gifts, and build relationship capital.
This is wine unlocked, the Uncorked way.
Trusted for Private Clients, Principal Support & Luxury Relationship Experiences
“Christie made the evening feel much more personal than a normal client dinner. The wines were a great conversation point, and what stood out was how naturally people connected with her salon structure.”
— J.M. Wealth Manager, Miami
“We brought Christie in for a salon with a small group of LPs and founders. It gave the evening more purpose than a typical investor dinner without making it feel overly programmed. Christie added just enough context to make the room feel more thoughtful and engaged.”
— A.S. Venture Capital, NYC
“She introduced us to Napa producers we would not have found on our own. It felt more personal than just buying recognizable labels.”
— M.P. Private Client, Los Angeles
Family Office & Private Capital Salons
A relationship tool for family offices, private capital groups, fund managers, co-investors, operators, and trusted advisors looking to convene investors, portfolio companies, founders, capital partners, and key relationships around private markets, innovation, liquidity events, or long-term wealth strategy.
Founder, Investor & Portfolio Company Salons
For founders, venture funds, private equity firms, strategic investors, and operators looking to spotlight a company, deepen investor relationships, engage LPs, convene commercial partners or create momentum with an opportunity in motion.
Private Client & Advisor Salons
For wealth managers, private banks, estate attorneys, tax strategists, insurance specialists, business managers, and other UHNW-facing professionals looking to deepen relationships with top clients, prospects and referral partners, and centers of influence in a setting that feels personal rather than transactional.
Yacht, Private Aviation & Luxury Client Experiences
For yacht brokers, private aviation advisors, luxury real estate professionals, hospitality groups, and other luxury client advisors looking to create memorable touch points for top clients, prospects, referral partners, and private guests, from yacht show activations and onboard tastings to private residence dinners, post-transaction celebrations, and client appreciation moments.
Private Clients, Collectors & Principals
For private clients, collectors, principals, and executive assistants seeking unique luxury Napa wine access, private tastings, gifting, cellar support, intimate dinners, and wine experiences that feel personal, thoughtful, and highly curated.
Designed Around Key Client Moments
Salons can be hosted around moments when clients, investors, founders, advisors, and family offices are already gathering, including investor conferences, family office gatherings, board meetings, executive retreats, private client dinners, Art Basel, F1 Grand Prix weekends, the Milken Conference, Pebble Beach Concours, The US Open and sponsor-supported gatherings.
For ongoing relationship-building, salons can also become a recurring series across key markets such as New York, Miami, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, Aspen, Silicon Valley, and other cities where clients, investors, founders, prospects, and strategic partners are already gathering.