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Rodney Strong Tasting &
Dinner at Zorba's Recap
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
R.S.V.P. Click Here to RSVP
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?
8. How does serving temperature effect wine?
9. What does oak in wine taste and smell like?
10. How do you detect a fault in a wine?
11. Which wines go with which cheeses?
Dinner at Zorba's Recap
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
R.S.V.P. Click Here to RSVP
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?
8. How does serving temperature effect wine?
9. What does oak in wine taste and smell like?
10. How do you detect a fault in a wine?
11. Which wines go with which cheeses?
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