What Wine Am I Drinking? Date: Saturday, May 10th Time: 7:00pm Location: Brad's House in Frisco Cost: A Bottle of Wine Max # of Guests: 25 Guests RSVP Click Here to RSVP
Everyone will bring a bottle of wine that I assign to them. By that I mean a certain varietal. I will provide some clues to everyone and then we will begin to taste 8 to 10 wines that I choose that will have their identity hidden by a wine bag. You will need to decipher the clues to determine what wine you are drinking. The winner is the one that guesses the most correctly.
Ted's Mature Wine Event - Part II Date: TBD (A Friday Night) Time: 7:00pm Location: Ted's House Cost: TBD Max # of Guests: TBD
Ted will open some wines from his collection to share with us. These will be wines that have matured or have some special meaning to Ted. Guest’s will be encouraged to bring their own old wine if they have any from the prior decade.
Burger Buster Cook-off and Wine Pairing Date: TBD (A Saturday) Time: 5 or 6:00pm Location: TBD - Need a Host! Cost: Food & Wine Max # of Guests: Probably 20 Guests
We will have five or six contestants prepare five hamburgers each that will get cut into four segments for everyone there. The contestants will also be required to bring a specific wine to pair with their burger creation. Everyone in attendance will be judging based on a few criteria; Taste, presentation, originality, and how well the wine pairs with the burger.
Hosting Special Needs: Someone that has a large outdoor patio with a good-sized grill.
Hawaiian Luau and Summer Wine Event Date: TBD (A Saturday during summer) Time: 5:00pm Location: TBD - Need a Host! Cost: Food & Wine Max # of Guests: TBD by Host
This will be kind of a beat the heat type of event. People can wear their Hawaiian outfits and bring a Hawaiian dish or appetizer and a summer wine to go with.
Hosting Special Needs: Someone with a pool would be preferable. Also someone with experience in hosting Luau events every year and who's names start with "M" and "R". Wink, wink, nudge, nudge!
Field Trip to a Texas Winery Date: TBD (A Saturday) Time: TBD by the Winery Location: TBD (maybe Crossroads in Frisco) Cost: TBD Max # of Guests: TBD by the Winery
I will arrange for a group of us to take a little trip and meet with the winemaker/owner of a local Texas Winery. What we do will be determined by what the owner suggests, but ideally we would get to try and possibly buy their wines if we wanted to.
2nd Food & Wine Pairing Dinner - Fruit of the Sea Date: TBD Time: 6:00pm Location: My House in Plano Cost: $50.00
If you don’t care for seafood, don’t bother reading the rest of the details for this wine & food pairing dinner. This dinner is all about the fruit and bounty that comes from the big ocean blue! Seafood is my favorite and cooking it is so much fun. I have picked out a few of my favorite recipes to pair with some great wines. Here is the line-up for dinner:
Le Convole (Clams steamed in a white wine sauce) paired with a Pinot Grigio
Seared Tuna Salad w/Hot Asian Mustard Dressing paired with a Sauvignon Blanc & a Pinot Noir
Herb Crusted Salmon w/Asparagus Beurre Blanc paired with a Chardonnay & a Pinot Noir
White Chocolate Hazelnut Tartlets paired with a Tawny Port.
During the dinner, I will explain the wine choices and give alternate choice suggestions as well as answer any questions you might have about the food and the wine. I will also have copies of the recipes available for everyone. And again, the cost is $50.00 a person limited to the first six people to RSVP.
Learning How to Taste Date: Sunday, TBD Time: 2pm to 4:30pm Location: My House in Plano Cost: $25.00 (covers cost of food & wine) R.S.V.P. shane@dallassecretwine.com
This will be our first wine class that will feature a variety of fun exercises and activities that are designed to help you learn to decipher tastes using the senses. As a result, you will become more in tune with your overall impressions when you taste wines. The class will be for eight people at a time and their will be a variety of wines and food to sample. This class is designed for the beginner and wine connoisseur alike. Some of the topics that we will cover are listed below:
1. What effect does sight have on Taste?
2. What effect does smell have on Taste?
3. How do you detect sweet, sour, bitter, salty & tannins when you taste?
4. How do you detect different levels of alcohol in wine and what is body weight and mouthfeel?
5. How does the glass we drink from effect wine?
6. What is the finish on a wine?
7. How do wines from different regions contrast from one another?