BerserkerFest 8.0, in Santa Barbara, November 21-23 weekend.
We’re good to go, folks, and look forward to a big, raucous (but responsible) party!!!
COST: $75.00 per person in advance, $90.00 per person at the door - includes facility rental, insurance (yeah, required for this gang), appetizers, desserts, scavenger hunt goodies, meat and veggies for the grill, serving and dining ware, stemware, and cleaning fee for the facility. Please send payment via check (made out to Wine Berserkers, LLC) to 2107 Colina Del Arco Iris, San Clemente CA 92673, or via paypal (though you’ll need to cover the fee, adding that to the total) to todd at wineberserkers.com I’ll mark all those PAID in this thread, so we’ll have confirmation of those who will be allowed in.
Schedule:
FOR FRIDAY:
Group dinner, in the planning stages - BYO, no corkage, etc. (specific restaurants, sizes, themes below)
Hitching Post 7:30 pm - one group of 16 The wine theme will be, “wines that make you sexy, strong and smart.” FULL
Peter Cargasacchi
Marshall and Diana Gelb
Brian Bohr
Chik Wong +1
Scott and Andrea Watkins
Danny Mazza
Kara Van Corbach
Kevin Donoghue +1
Mark Hubbard +1
Bob Summers
Sal and Nancy Dolce
Group Dinner 2 - at Jim Salvito’s house, 6:30 pm (address given via PM) CLOSED:
Mike and Dana Stoneking
Matt Mauldin +1
Jim Salvito and Perry Norton
Larry Schaffer +1
John and Helen Falcone
John Cabot and Aida Vilatoro
Nikki and Jeff Nelson (maybe)
FOR SATURDAY:
kick off bubbles brunch (scavenger hunters ONLY + Refs and Drivers + Jeff/Nik/Peter if he can make it!)
11am - 12:30pm
location: Liquid Farm Casa
some bacon, we will have eggs covered and idea to do breakfast pizzas w/ dough by Sir Carg, pizzas by ninja Kara
hunters/we all would bring some bubbles to crack and share
Nik / Kara / Jeff, etc will fully get the teams up to speed with what to expect, rules, how to win and will be assigning the teams - OR announce them perhaps at the Friday dinner and they can come up with crazy name for their team and start to “bond” about winning
SCAVENGER HUNT - 12:30pm-4:30pm
4 hours will be enough time to hit 4-5 producers if we’re strategic about how we send people where and teaming two producers at 1-2 stops
two cars
NON-HUNTERS DAY
Jonathan Grunzweig and Larry Schaffer are hosting a limited group tasting of Tercero as well as at least one of the great Happy Canyon AVA wineries doing interesting things with Bdx varietals. This will start at noon Saturday and is currently full, but there may be cancellations so let them know if you have interest:
Matt Mauldin and his wife Melissa
Jim Salvito and his wife Perry Norton
Marshall Gelb and his wife Diana
Mark Hubbard + 1
John Cabot and Aida Villatoro
Adam Grossman + 1
Possibly George Yatischin and his wife Chryss Yost
COMPED TASTINGS for BerserkerFest participants (ALL WEEKEND) from these wineries (and growing…)
Melville
Samsara
Palmina
Brewer-Clifton
Crawford Family
Falcone Family
Native 9
Alta Maria
Cargasacchi/Loring (the evil Siamese twins)
Liquid Farm
Longoria
Tercero
Dragonette Cellars
Rusack (plus 20% discount on all purchases!)
Meanwhile at Museum… (our location for the main event)
we have people getting the venue set up and ready for non-hunters/hunters to arrive between 4:30-5pm
FINALE GRILLED CHEESE WAR & WB DINNER @ SY Museum
5pm - teams arrive to the venue where non-hunters have recently or will soon arrive
5:15pm - everyone imbibes a bit while we tally the teams scores on the tasting portion of the HUNT
5:30pm - scores are announced and we announce the finale GRILLED CHEESE WAR (and rules) to determine the Champions
5:45pm - the teams will have had 15 minutes to prepare the best and most kick ass grilled cheese they can and non-hunters begin to taste each
6pm - all votes have been placed for preferred team
(should we have them cooking where they can’t be seen so that non-hunters are unbiased when they choose the winner or not?)
Post 6pm to 8pm - meats are grilled up, sides are served (TBD on this still)
Soon after 6pm if not already done, winners will be announced and CROWNED!
8pm - we present the crazy cake/dessert and toast the Crew/Hunters, etc
band or music wraps up at 9pm
Head to the Maverick Saloon for guaranteed Sunday hangover
(Other area wineries if they wanted to could also come and pour/visit and bring wine to sell / perhaps some of that happens Sat night at the museum?)
Attendees:
FINAL LIST OF PREPAID PARTICIPANTS:
Todd And Jen PAID and Scavenger Hunters
Peter Cargasacchi PAID
Nikki Nelson +1? PAID
Brig Campbell +1 Scavenger Hunters
Kara Van Corbach PAID
Scott and Andrea Watkins PAID and Scavenger Hunters
Danny Mazza PAID and Scavenger Hunter
Brian Bohr PAID and Scavenger Hunter
Mike and Dana Stoneking PAID and Scavenger Hunters
Jim and Perry Salvito PAID
Jonathan Grunzweig PAID
Chik Wong PAID
Cheryl Bonito PAID
Brian Loring +1 PAID
April Bolduc and Vince Yeh PAID and Scavenger Hunters
Bruce and Laurie Rudman - PAID and Scavenger Hunters
Kevin Donoghue +1 PAID
Matt Mauldin +1 PAID
Marshall and Diana Gelb PAID
Mark Hubbard +1 PAID
John Cabot and Aida Villatoro PAID
Larry Schaffer
Backroads Bob Summers PAID
Sal and Nancy Dolcemascolo PAID
John and Helen Falcone PAID
Adam Grossman +1 PAID
Rob Winn and Francine Haight PAID
42 TOTAL HAVE PREPAID, others, below, and walk-ins, will pay the $90 ‘at the door pricing’
Gene Keenan +1
Alan and Sandra Silvestri
Ki and Val Punwar
Gregg Greenbaum +1?
Jeb Singleton
Carlton McCrindle
Jay Hack
Rick T.
Adam and Lea G
Ted and JoAnn Erfer
George Chadwick +1