When : Monday, May 11th, 5:30. I’ll get there at 5pm to help organize and if you can’t get there until 6 or so, that’s fine–there will be room and plenty of wine.
Requirements : For this dinner you will bring at least one magnum of something very good. The world is your oyster, anything goes here, but needs to be excellent. If you want to bring two, go right ahead. This is a blind tasting, so make sure your bottle is covered when you bring it. Also make sure you open it up ahead of time. Most of these magnums need air, plus it will help speed along the evening.
Where : Back Room @ Bobby Van’s on 131 e 54th street (between Park and Lex)
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 16 people. 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 : This is the first time I’m doing it here, but they have agreed to no corkage, and we’ll order family style, so I expect it to be reasonable.
Why : Because magnums mean you care.
Attending:
@PeterB (+3)
@Joseph_Grassa +1
@AaronR
@gavin.f
@Madeline_Andreach +1
@Jorge_Henriquez
@B_Caputo
@Jesse_W
@TGigante
@Sandbergsm
@wbeshears
@Tom_Simons
@Juan_S +1
Waitlist:
@Sam_Kwak
@Sh3ll_Tu
@Bob_Knapp
