• Divinale - Charity Grand Tasting - Women Winemakers and Owners.
• 1:00pm

• Sample 70+ wines made by women winemakers, growers and owners.

• The Divinale Grand Tasting will feature a variety of wines from around the world.

• You can also partake in one of our free seminars, and all attendees automatically enter a drawing for a trip for two to Piedmont!

Just a small sampling of some of the wines to be poured:
Il Colle Rosso di Montalcino 2007 - Caterina Carli

Bruna Grimaldi Babera d’Alba “Scassa” – Bruna Grimaldi

Zuani Vigne Collio Bianco 2008 – Patrizia Felluga

Lagar de Costa Albarino 2007 – Sonia Fontan

Meritxell Palleja Priorat “Nita” 2007 – Meritxell Palleja

Donnafaguta “Anthilia” 2008 – Gabriella Rallo

Mayro-Murdick Pinot Noir 2007 - Tina Cox

Donatella Cinelli Colombini Prime Donne Brunello 2004 – Donatella Cinelli Colombini

Amancaya Cabernet Sauvignon/Malbec 2008 – Estela Perinetti

Casa Marin Sauvignon Blanc “Cipreses” 2008 - Maria Luz Marin

Ticket-holders get free admission to one of the following seminars. Limited space available, so please come early to sign up for your seminar of choice:
1:15 – 2:00 Basics of Winemaking with David Lecomte

A key to appreciating wine is a basic understanding of how it’s made. Sitting among the fermentation tanks and wine barrels, you’ll hear City Winery’s head winemaker David Lecomte will talk through the basic stages and processes of red and white winemaking.

2:30 – 3:15 Fragrance & Wine with Mary John Baumann

Your sense of smell plays a major role in the sensorial enjoyment of wine. Mary John Baumann, DWS is a wine professional as well as a marketing executive with many years of experience in the fragrance industry. Using fine fragrance notes created by Master Perfumer Harry Fremont of the Swiss fragrance house Firmenich, Baumann will share the importance of sense of smell in wine appreciation while helping you develop your scent vocabulary by using your nose.

3:45 – 4:30 Developing your Wine Buying Confidence with the Vino Vixens

Are you overwhelmed by the choices at your local wine retailer? Wish you felt more comfortable ordering wine off a restaurant menu? This session is designed to give you strategies for buying wine with confidence. The Vino Vixens, a group of experienced female wine professionals, create a friendly, non-intimidating format in which people with all levels of wine knowledge are welcome and no question is too simple. Vino Vixen members conducting the seminar include Cynthia Goddeau (sommelier at Del Posto), Jill Roberts (formerly at The Modern and The Harrison), Julee Resendez (Southern Wine & Spirits, formerly at The Harrison, Café Boulud, and Aquavit), Mariko Kobayashi (wine director at Esca).

Win a trip for two to the home of Barolo - Piedmont, Italy!

Ticket-holders for any Divinale event will enter a drawing for a trip to Piedmont valued at over $2,300. The trip is sponsored by Shop Wine & Dine which organizes exciting and unique tours to Italy’s premier wine-producing regions. The raffle winner will be announced at the end of Divinale.

Highlights of the Piedmont trip include:
- Three nights with breakfast at the five-star Relais Monforte Hotel

- One lunch for two with wines

- A private visit and wine tasting with a top local woman wine-producer

- Dinner for two with wines at Michelin-starred Guido Restaurant in Pollenzo. This magnificent restaurant is located within the walls of the Slow Food’s University for Gastronomic Sciences. The dinner will be preceded by a private visit to the University’s Wine Bank where wines produced by all the major Italian wine producers are stored.

- Services of a private-English-speaking guide for one day.

- All menus and wines pre-selected by Shop Wine and Dine.