Prasino Wicker Park’s Chef Riley Huddleston and Sommelier Keith Malini chose “Age Before Beauty” as the theme for their wine dinner with Fred Scherrer of the Scherrer Winery. Turning convention on it’s head, they served the wines “backwards” moving from Fred’s Zinfandel with the first course to his Chardonnay with the last. It was a [...]
Normally Fred brings his guitar to Chicago but this time he had a box full of samples. When he found a guitar at Senza, he let the wines, and Kevin, do the talking.
Sommelier Rachel Driver Speckan pours some wonderfully diverse and esoteric wines by the glass at City Winery Chicago. One of her latest additions from our portfolio is the Domaine de l’Ecu Muscadet Classique 2011 from Fred and Guy. Rachel was a little peeved that I wrote a silly song / poem about Jeremy Quinn and [...]
Jeremy Quinn, Sommelier at Telegraph, Reno and of course Webster Wine Bar is pouring the Muscadet Classique 2011 from Domaine de l’Ecu at Telegraph these days. No surprise, along with Craig Perman, Jeremy is one of the city’s leading lovers and promoters of single vineyard Melon de Bourgogne. Craig is in Nantes at l’Ecu literally [...]
Turner-Pageot Wine Dinner at Senza Wednesday, April 17th, 6pm & 8:30pm Join Senza for a special dinner featuring the wines of Turner-Pageot. Chef Noah Sandoval has created a five-course tasting menu to complement Karen and Emmanuel’s typical and yet atypical biodynamic wines from the Languedoc region of Southern France. Senza will be offering two seating [...]
If you haven’t booked a reservation yet, make one today because this is a wine dinner that can’t be missed. On Thursday,May 2 Chef Andy Motto and the crew at Quince will be presenting a 4-course dinner paired with the ridiculous wines of Fulvio Bressan – and by ridiculous we mean ridiculously good! The marriage [...]
Amy Lafontant and the team at The Bottle Shop in Wilmette have sold more wines from Fred Scherrer than anyone in the state, and it will be a pleasure to launch Fred’s 2013 trip to Illinois with a tasting on Tuesday, April 16th at the store from 6-8 PM. We hope to see many old [...]
This Saturday, March 30th from 3-4:30, Kevin will be pouring wines from the dynamic and wonderfully mustachioed Jo Landron at The Bottle Shop in Wilmette, along with one of the best values from Bordeaux that we’ve come across, Chateau Peybonhomme Les Tours. Kevin will pour Jo’s “Domaine” alongside the “Amphibolite”. Both of these Muscadet’s are [...]
Looking for an outpost for good wine in the Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood? Look no further then Joe’s Wine Cellar located at 2108 W. Division Street. Joe’s Cellar is full up with some fine selections from Candid Wines, that you can pull off the shelf or, if you’re in luck, try at the wine station. Grab [...]
Cosimo’s “Daphné” is a funky, biodynamic white wine made from Trebbiano that sits on it’s skins for four days, unusual for a white, before fermenting and aging in neutral oak barrels. It’s an intriguing wine about which we receive many calls after people have tasted it at the winery or at a restaurant. It’s [...]
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