About Outer Space Wines
What to know about Outer Space Wines Napa.
Outer Space is a wine shop and wine bar located in Downtown Napa, California. In August 2024 Thad and Emily Duprey bought Outer Space from Dan Dawson, long-time Napa wine professional. As the Dupreys “settle in” and decide the shops new identity, they continue the wine ethos created by Dawson: wines chosen with painstaking care, all brimming with personality and over-delivering for their price. The wine selection is about half Northern California wines (Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino), half from beyond (Europe, mostly). If you live in or near Napa, or are visiting, come have a look.
There is always a tasting for you in Outer Space. Our daily wine tastings features a local boutique wineries, and if you’re kind there may be an extra wine to enjoy. Tasting events are on Thursday and Friday evenings. The tasting events are a blend of wine education and a casual good time to be with old friends and make new ones.
Choose any bottle in the wine shop and drink it in Outer Space for retail + $15 corkage.
Event Space
We’ll put on a fantastic, customized tasting event, with food & wine pairings if you’d like, for you and your group. Talk to us if you’d like to host your private event in Outer Space.
Thanks for reading. Look forward to seeing you in Outer Space.
Thad & Emily Duprey, owners of Outer Space Wines
When I (Thad) was, ahem, “21” years old, on my first night in Napa, I walked into a wine shop at 974 Franklin St. run by Dan Dawson. 18 years later, I walked into the same space and bought this wine shop from Dan Dawson. I learned to love wine in the very room where my wife and I now host others, hopefully helping them to do the same.
Along the way we have been lucky to have some incredible experiences. My introduction to Napa was spending a summer working at Hudson Vineyards in Carneros, whose wine I still proudly pour every day. I worked a harvest with Patz & Hall, and spent years cooking at incredible restaurants, including one where I fell in love with the Sommelier who now shares this dream with me. Emily worked as a wildly talented Somm in Boston and New York, and spent a harvest with German legend Dönnhoff, so don’t be surprised when you see lots of German wine in our Napa shop. We spent several years doing other things–working in startups, or for wine importers, or being a stay at home mom, before coming back to the thing and the place that we love. Our first date was a week long trip to Napa. Now we own a business here and are raising our family here. How lucky are we?
We love this place. Napa can feel a little disjointed these days. It’s expensive, there’s lots of Private Equity money, and it all feels a bit staged. It can be hard to remember that this is a place where there are still hands on artisans making a barrel of this and a barrel of that, in quantities too small to leave the valley. We just find those wines inherently more honest, authentic, and interesting. So that’s what we pour, because that’s what we care about. We are willing to get as nerdy about any wine as you’d like, but this is a place for authentic, wonderful wine experiences without pretense. At the end of the day, what matters is if you like what’s in the glass in front of you. We bet you will.
