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The $50 & Up Tasting Recap
The Cork Dork Wine Event
Date: Saturday, April 3rd
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Sunit's home - Coppell/Valley Ranch
Cost: A bottle of wine and an appetizer
Max # of Guests: 20 to 25 people
RSVP: To R.S.V.P. Click Here!
Wine, food and fun...what more can you ask for? This
event is intended to be both fun and educational. Bring a
wine and some food to share, we'll mingle and sample the
wines. In addition, there will be some wine related trivia
& other wine themed games to play. Should be a hoot!
L'Uvagia di Giacomo Wine
Tasting at the Martin
Lawrence Gallery
Date: Saturday, May 15th
Time: from 6:00 to 8:00pm
Location: The Martin Lawrence Gallery
Dallas Galleria/Saks Fifth Ave
13550 Dallas Parkway, TX, 75240
(972) 716-5335
Cost: FREE!!!
Max # of Guests: 40
RSVP: To R.S.V.P. Click Here!
Sipping fantastic wines while perusing incredible art.
Does life get any better than this? I submit that it
cannot! The Martin Lawrence Gallery is opening up
their stunning art collections, featuring artist Kerry
Hallam, to us as a backdrop and setting for a fantastic
wine tasting. These wines are the creation of a
winemaker who worked for the Mondavi/Frescobaldi
joint venture in Tuscany, Italy. His winery, L'Uvagia di
Giacomo, specializes in Italian varietals grown in the
fertile soils of California. Here is some more info on the
wines/winemaker:
The word “Uvaggio” has as its root in the word “Uva”
which is Italian for “grape” and “Uvaggio” is a blend of
grapes in Italy just as Cuvee is a blend of grapes in
France, so “L’Uvaggio di Giacomo” literally translates
as “the blend of James”, or as I teasingly refer to it when
tasting his wines with him, “Jim’s Blend”.
Winemaker Jim Moore fell in love with Italian wines
while heading up Mondavi's Italian Winemaking venture.
Working with the Frescobaldi family, Jim walked the
vineyards of Tuscany and Northern Italy and become
immersed in regional varieties and winemaking
techniques.
He started producing his own label with the notorious
1997 vintage and continues to produce some of
California’s finest versions of these wonderful varietals.
He was recently named one of the Ten Winemakers to
Watch by the San Francisco Chronicle, who decided he
made some of the best examples of Italian wines to be
found in California.
For more info on the Martin Lawrence Gallery, please
check out their website here: www.martinlawrence.com
Be sure to RSVP soon!
$50 & Up Burgundy Tasting
Date: Saturday, June 5th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: TBD
Cost: A $50 or more bottle of
Red or White Burgundy
and an appetizer
Max # of Guests: 10 to 12 people
RSVP: To R.S.V.P. Click Here!
Well this shouldn't be hard because let's face, Burgundy
wines are expensive anyway, right? I think this is a
category of wine that many of you shy away from
because it is very confusing and intimidating to choose a
good one. That to me makes this a perfect choice for our
next $50 and Up category. I want to expose to many of
you why this to me is the greatest of all wine regions and
unfortunately at times, the most frustrating. Some of my
most memorable bottles of wine were from Burgundy, red
and white. (Pinot Noir & Chardonnay) These are very
food friendly wines so finding an appetizer to bring should
be easy. I will throw in a little Burgundy 101 education
on top of the tasting. The wine can be either red or
white. For those of you that think you don't like
Chardonnay, but have never had one from Burgundy, get
ready to be surprised!
I may need a host for this event so if you're interested in
hosting, drop me an email at shane@dallassecretwine.
com
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: TBD
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Cost: $20.00
R.S.V.P. shane@dallassecretwine.com
This wine class 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 twenty people at a time and
there 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?
The Cork Dork Wine Event
Date: Saturday, April 3rd
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Sunit's home - Coppell/Valley Ranch
Cost: A bottle of wine and an appetizer
Max # of Guests: 20 to 25 people
RSVP: To R.S.V.P. Click Here!
Wine, food and fun...what more can you ask for? This
event is intended to be both fun and educational. Bring a
wine and some food to share, we'll mingle and sample the
wines. In addition, there will be some wine related trivia
& other wine themed games to play. Should be a hoot!
L'Uvagia di Giacomo Wine
Tasting at the Martin
Lawrence Gallery
Date: Saturday, May 15th
Time: from 6:00 to 8:00pm
Location: The Martin Lawrence Gallery
Dallas Galleria/Saks Fifth Ave
13550 Dallas Parkway, TX, 75240
(972) 716-5335
Cost: FREE!!!
Max # of Guests: 40
RSVP: To R.S.V.P. Click Here!
Sipping fantastic wines while perusing incredible art.
Does life get any better than this? I submit that it
cannot! The Martin Lawrence Gallery is opening up
their stunning art collections, featuring artist Kerry
Hallam, to us as a backdrop and setting for a fantastic
wine tasting. These wines are the creation of a
winemaker who worked for the Mondavi/Frescobaldi
joint venture in Tuscany, Italy. His winery, L'Uvagia di
Giacomo, specializes in Italian varietals grown in the
fertile soils of California. Here is some more info on the
wines/winemaker:
The word “Uvaggio” has as its root in the word “Uva”
which is Italian for “grape” and “Uvaggio” is a blend of
grapes in Italy just as Cuvee is a blend of grapes in
France, so “L’Uvaggio di Giacomo” literally translates
as “the blend of James”, or as I teasingly refer to it when
tasting his wines with him, “Jim’s Blend”.
Winemaker Jim Moore fell in love with Italian wines
while heading up Mondavi's Italian Winemaking venture.
Working with the Frescobaldi family, Jim walked the
vineyards of Tuscany and Northern Italy and become
immersed in regional varieties and winemaking
techniques.
He started producing his own label with the notorious
1997 vintage and continues to produce some of
California’s finest versions of these wonderful varietals.
He was recently named one of the Ten Winemakers to
Watch by the San Francisco Chronicle, who decided he
made some of the best examples of Italian wines to be
found in California.
For more info on the Martin Lawrence Gallery, please
check out their website here: www.martinlawrence.com
Be sure to RSVP soon!
$50 & Up Burgundy Tasting
Date: Saturday, June 5th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: TBD
Cost: A $50 or more bottle of
Red or White Burgundy
and an appetizer
Max # of Guests: 10 to 12 people
RSVP: To R.S.V.P. Click Here!
Well this shouldn't be hard because let's face, Burgundy
wines are expensive anyway, right? I think this is a
category of wine that many of you shy away from
because it is very confusing and intimidating to choose a
good one. That to me makes this a perfect choice for our
next $50 and Up category. I want to expose to many of
you why this to me is the greatest of all wine regions and
unfortunately at times, the most frustrating. Some of my
most memorable bottles of wine were from Burgundy, red
and white. (Pinot Noir & Chardonnay) These are very
food friendly wines so finding an appetizer to bring should
be easy. I will throw in a little Burgundy 101 education
on top of the tasting. The wine can be either red or
white. For those of you that think you don't like
Chardonnay, but have never had one from Burgundy, get
ready to be surprised!
I may need a host for this event so if you're interested in
hosting, drop me an email at shane@dallassecretwine.
com
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: TBD
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Cost: $20.00
R.S.V.P. shane@dallassecretwine.com
This wine class 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 twenty people at a time and
there 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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