When : Thursday, February 26th, 5:30 sit down for Champagne. The tasting dinner will commence at 5:50pm. I’ll get there just after 5pm if anyone gets out early and do their blind flight.
Requirements : For this dinner you will bring two bottles of the same wine but different vintages. $150 each minimum on these ones. The world is your oyster, anything goes here. Some people asked for minimum distance between vintages, but I’m going to leave that up to you. If someone wants to look at Haut-Brion between 1989 and 1990, who am I to stop them?
Where : Corkbuzz Chelsea Market (75 9th Avenue)
How : When you arrive, please ensure the wine bottles are concealed (in a bag or aluminum foil or something to cover them) and at the proper cellar temperature. Also, given the amount of wine, please OPEN YOUR BOTTLES ahead of time. The target amount of people for this dinner will be 12 people—once you go above 12 it can get too unruly, and there won’t be enough wine for each person—we’d like to keep this as a “mostly peaceful tasting.” Each person will pass their bottles around and the group will taste them and attempt to determine what they are. Once everyone has tried them we will guess the region, variety and price. The wines will be revealed each time after the round of guessing. How formal or casual your guesses are will totally be up to you; WSET, CMS, or just winging it are all fine…
Cost : The cost is expected to be around $150. This includes free corkage, and gratuity. They provide all the stems, excellent service and great food.
Why : Because this will be fun, and my head hurts from last night with 3 bottles each…
Some people have chatted me ahead of time, so saving a few extra spots for them to confirm their availability.
@PeterB (+3)
@Tom_Simons
@J0hnEhrl1ng
@Madeline_Andreach
@B_Caputo
@AaronR
@RayChung
@Jesse_W
@Bob_Knapp
@TGigante
@Scott_McDonald
Waitlist:
Scott’s +1
@Sandbergsm
