A Guide to Wine, Food & the Good Life
  • A One-Hundred Point Wine Dinner with wines from the cellars of collector Thomas Boothe of Portland, Oregon, and Archie McLaren of Avila Beach
  • A Wine Spectator “Top Ten” Wine Dinner with Wine Spectator Wine Writer  Jim Laube at Ken Frank’s La Toque restaurant in Napa, featuring an array of the Wine Spectator’s “Top Ten” choices from the “Top One Hundred Wines of 2011”
  • An AMA Waterways Wine Cruise in Europe, hosted by Carissa Chappellet and Archie McLaren
  • An Orion Expedition Cruise to Exotic The Kimberley Islands near Australia and New Zealand, hosted by Carissa Chappellet and Archie McLaren
  • A Relais & Chateaux French Wine Country Excursion from Paris to Bordeaux to the Rhone to Burgundy to Champagne and returning to Paris, featuring visits to stellar wine properties in all of the wine regions and dinners at Relais & Chateaux restaurants as well as at Alain Ducasse, Guy Savoy and Pierre Gagnaire in Paris
  • Two Magnums of 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild
  • A Hand-Crafted Collector’s Case of 2008 Bordeaux, including Chateaux Petrus, Cheval Blanc, Lafite Rothschild, Haut Brion, Latour, Margaux, Mouton Rothschild, La Mission Haut Brion and Yquem
  • A VIP trip to the 2014 Monaco Grand Prix Automobile Race
  • A Micato Luxury Excursion to India
  • A New Orleans Culinary Excursion to the 2014 Jazz & Heritage Music Festival with Dinners at the Restaurants of Emeril Lagasse and the Brennan Family, including Emeril’s Delmonico and Commander’s Palace, among others
  • A Travel Sommelier “Wine Harvest Heaven” Wine Country Excursion to South Africa that includes Two Nights’ Accommodation in Cape Town at The Cape Grace Hotel, a Cape Town City & Peninsula Tour, Two Nights’ Accommodation in Stellenbosch at The River Manor, a gracious retreat in this town renowned for its music, arts, wine and culture, Private Tutored Wine tastings of Current and Historic vintages, Barrel sampling, Intimate Cellar and Vineyards Experiences and Two Nights’ Accommodation in Franschoek at Le Quartier Francais, a gastronomic gem in Africa’s culinary capital
  • A Culinary & Kinetic Art Excursion with Ferrari Aficionado Archie McLaren to the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Automobile Show, including Dinners at Bernardus Lodge in Carmel Valley and Restaurant 1833 in Monterey
  • Comprehensive VIP Admission to the 2014 Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival
  • A Vertical Magnum Collection of Saxum James Berry Vineyard Paso Robles Syrah from the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009 Vintages
  • A Cult Cabernet Sauvignon Dinner in the Wine Cave at the Home of Steve and Judy Padis in Napa, featuring Padis, Harbison, Chappellet, Harlan, Colgin, Continuum, Ovid and other cults of renown
  • One-of-a-Kind Blends from the likes of Chappellet/Brand on Pritchard Hill and Au Bon Climat/Dumol
  • An Opus One Dinner with Marketing Director Roger Asleson and CEO David Pearson at Auberge du Soleil
  • A Five-Course Dinner with Gourmet Barbara Fairchild, former Editor & Chief of Bon Appetit Magazine with Wines from the Cellar of Archie McLaren, two Fine Wines Per Course
  • A New York Fine Dining Trip with Dinners at the Myriad Restaurant Group’s Corton, Tribeca Grill and Nobu and a Stay at the Four Seasons Hotel on 57th Street
  • An Aman Resorts Seven Night Sri Lankan “Fort & Beach” Stay for Two Couples at Amangalla, which sits within the ramparts of the 17th century Gallo Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Amanwella, which sits in a coconut grove on a crescent shaped beach
  • A Dinner with Wine Spectator Editor Harvey Steiman in San Francisco with Fine Wines from the cellars of Harvey and Archie McLaren, Two Wines Per Course
  • A Stay at Diamond Creek Vineyards on Diamond Mountain in the Napa Valley and Dinner with Boots Brounstein with a Stay at Chappellet Winery on Pritchard Hill in the Napa Valley with Dinner with Carissa Chappellet
  • A Vertical of Beaulieu Vineyards Georges de Latour Private Reserve Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 1980 through 1999 from the cellar of Dr. Ron and Sheila Light
  • Dinner at the Ritz-Carlton San Francisco with Bay Area culinary icon Narsai David and his wife Venus featuring rare wines from their private cellar
  • Dinner at the home of Wedell Cellars owners Maurice and Susie Wedell featuring Rare First Growth Bordeaux from the 1959 and 1961 Vintages
  • Exceptional art works from Central Coast Wine Classic Commemorative Artists Mark Bowles, James-Paul Brown, Robert Burridge, Carissa Chappellet, Gary Conway, Adam Liesko, Joanne Liesko, Candice Norcross, Joanne Beaule Ruggles, Edward Walton Wilcox and Yuroz.

 

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