Overview The Napa Valley Standard is Visit Napa Valley's four-day wine and food festival, and its November 2025 preview put three-Michelin-starred chef Christopher Kostow in the kitchen at Meadowood beside the resort's own executive chef. The festival runs in three strands: an opening night called Setting the Standard, The Standard Sessions, a small-room industry series on what comes next in food, wine and hospitality, and a run of signature tastings, dinners and lifestyle experiences. Visit Napa Valley, the official destination marketing and management organization for Napa County, hosts it. a21, a Miami events company that has produced the Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival and the Pebble Beach Food and Wine festival, produces it. On site The preview, November 12 to 15, 2025, moved through five resorts: Auberge du Soleil, Carneros Resort and Spa, Four Seasons Napa Valley, Meadowood Napa Valley and Silverado Resort. Each meal sat in a different dining room and paired a resort's executive chef with a guest: Masters of the Table at Four Seasons, a Prestige and Edge lunch at Meadowood, a Lunch in Provence at Auberge du Soleil, a Next Generation Napa dinner at Carneros and a closing garden party at Silverado. The one walk-around event was a walk-around tasting at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, with ten chefs cooking beside Napa Valley wineries. Visit Napa Valley pitched the preview at tastemakers, cultural curators and luxury travelers. Talent and Influencers The 2025 pairings: Rogelio Garcia of Auro with Paul Liebrandt, with wines chosen by winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown; Meadowood's Alejandro Ayala with Christopher Kostow; Robert Curry of Auberge du Soleil with Roland Passot; Jeffrey Jake of Carneros with the James Beard Award winner Philip Tessier; and Patrick Prager of Silverado with Sean O'Toole. Brand presence The five resorts hosted the 2025 preview in their own dining rooms and gardens, and Napa Valley wineries poured beside the chefs at the Greystone tasting. Partnerships are sold at two levels, a lead partner and entry partners, through a21.