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Nov

03

On my way to Epcot Food & Wine Festival

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On a flight now to Orlando for this 16th annual food and wine lovers dream festival! Our first visit last year was a blast and this year I’m looking forward to new experiences including:

  • Epcot Wine School: I’m attending one of the five wine schools offered during the festival. Sunday’s school is ‘Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Italian Wine’ with Sharron McCarthy, CSW of Castello Banfi Wines.
  • French Regional Lunch: Friday I’ll be dining at Bistro de Paris featuring the Champagne region with Nicolas Feuillate Champagne and their sales director Pascal Boye.
  • Disney Wines: Debuting at this year’s festival are two new Disney wines Sogno d’Italia wines, a Pinot Grigio and a Chianti, developed exclusively for Disney in partnership with Banfi.
  • 25 international kiosks of food and beverage including new this year Portugal, Caribbean and Hawaii.

Follow me on Twitter (@GrapeOccasions) the next few days for updates then I’ll have lots to share on my website next week.

Cheers!

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Oct

27

Tomorrow is Champagne Day!

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Very excited for tomorrow’s second-annual Champagne Day, Friday 28 October! What a great way to celebrate Friday!

Champagne Day started last year, by the Champagne Bureau, as a grassroots online effort to celebrate the sparkling wine that comes exclusively from the Champagne region of France. Tomorrow not only can you participate in the digital world, but there are a few events going on in Napa, DC, Boston, NYC and obviously France. Visit the Champagne Day Meetup site for more event info.

How to join the virtual tasting if you’re new…

  1. Get yourself on Twitter…it’s the best way to participate and virtually join the fun.
  2. Grab a bottle of Champagne…remember true Champagne ONLY comes from France.
  3. Pop open the bottle on Thursday and get online…use the #ChampagneDay hash tag in your tweets (you can also do on Facebook, Tweetdeck, etc…) … post about what you’re tasting, where you’re tasting, who you’re with. And follow #ChampagneDay on Twitter, Tweetdeck, etc.

Cheers to Champagne Day!

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May

03

Wine for the Royal Wedding

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In addition to the Pol Roger NV Brut Reserve Champagne featured at the Buckingham Palace Royal Wedding Receptions Friday, The Daily Mail reported English white wine from Chapel Down would also be served. Keeping up the theme of showcasing the best of Britain.

Chapel Down is the biggest winery of the UK’s 109 wineries and it produces over two million bottles a year. Located in Tenterden, Kent, they’ve been in business for 30 years. Like the Champagne choice, Chapel Down offers approachable price point so all can enjoy…their least expensive wine is the 2010 Flint Dry at £8.50 per bottle and their most popular 2010 Bacchus is only £11 per bottle.  Chapel Down also created a commemorative sparkling wine for the royal wedding called The Union for £25 per bottle, “a marriage of two of the greatest sparkling wine grapes. The Chardonnay provides elegance and finesse and the Pinot Noir adds depth and texture.”

For the last wine statement from the newly married Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, we saw them leave Buckingham Palace after the Queen’s Reception in Prince Charles’ convertible Aston Martin DB6, which runs on E85 bioethanol made from English wine waste.

Cheers to what was a fairytale day!

 

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Apr

28

Toast the Royal Kiss

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The final countdown is underway and by noon tomorrow (London time, 6am Eastern time), Kate & William will be married!  They’ll depart Westminster Abbey in a fairy-tale carriage for Buckingham Palace for the first of the day’s two parties, The Queen’s Reception followed in the evening by Prince Charles’ party.

Before the celebrating begins, at 1:25pm the Prince and Her Royal Highness the Princess William of Wales will appear on the Palace balcony for their public kiss!

Sounds like the perfect moment to pop a bottle of champagne! And why not a bottle of what’s being served at tomorrow’s events? Pol Roger!

The non-vintage choice of Pol Roger is breaking with tradition and causing quite a stir as it’s their first appearance at a royal wedding. The usual royal champagne of choice is Bollinger. Their 1973 Vintage was served at Charles and Diana’s wedding. But Pol Roger is reasonably priced at $50 a bottle allowing everyone to partake in the new tradition!

Cheers to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge!

 

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Feb

25

Break out the bubbles…it’s Oscar Night!

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And the official bubbles of the 83rd annual Academy Awards® is … Moët & Chandon Champagne.

After the Red Carpet is walked and the awards are given out, the celebrating begins. The official party as always is the Governor’s Ball, produced by Cheryl Cecchetto/Sequoia Productions and menu created by Wolfgang Puck with Chef Partner Matt Bencivenga & Executive Pastry Chef Sherry Yard.

This year’s theme will blend the Hollywood music of the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s with the inspired décor of such eclectic clubs as the Rainbow Room and the El Mocambo.

Reception stations of sushi and shellfish will be laid out while hors deouvres like Mini Kobe Cheeseburger with Remoulade and Aged Cheddar and Taro Root Taco with Smoked Lobster, Avocado and Pickled Jalapeno are passed. Dinner is a Trio of Wolfgang’s Signature Salads; entrée of Pan Roasted Dover Sole with Fennel, Olives, Haricot Vert, Tomatoes, Lemon, Sherry, and Olive Oil; followed by dessert of Sherry’s Sweet Bouquet Layers of Lemon Cheesecake, Raspberry Cremieux, Cassis Gelee, Valrhona Ivoire and 24 Karat Chocolate Oscar® (there are 4,000 of them!).

1,200 bottles of Moët & Chandon Champagne will be on hand. Pop open your own bottle and whip up one of Moët & Chandon’s champagne cocktails, Moët’s Silver Screen Punch or The Moët Starlet. Find the cocktail recipes and other fun tools (like Oscar Ballots and Oscar Bingo) for your Oscar Party on Oscar’s official website.

Cheers!

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