Pinot Days Festival
Thursday, April 28th, 2005
This is my first and probably only plug I’ll ever make about an event; the First Annual Pinot Days Festival! Yes, I realize there is now a backlash AGAINST Pinot because of what is now known as the Sideways effect, but I was a known Pinotphiliac before the movie and continue to be one.
Organized by my friends Steve and Lisa Rigisich of the Bay Area Wine Project, the three-day festival is kicking off at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Friday night, June 24th with a taste-off comparison of The Best of the Santa Lucia Highlands featuring wines from The Pisoni, Gary’s, and Rosella’s Vineyards. The cool part about this is that the winemakers’ themselves will be at hand for questions, schmoozing, and general camaraderie. Saturday’s event is a tasting from seventy (70!) different Pinot producers along with some demonstrations of how this illustrious grape is so carefully handled. The finale of the weekend a Pinot-producer brunch in an intimate setting in Marin where *other* wines besides Pinot will be tasted (that’s not to say there won’t be Pinot available as well!)
I am looking forward to this event and hope it is the first of many!