De’Vine Wine Weekend
De’Vine Wine Weekend @ Grand View Lodge
February 3-5, 2017
For years Grand View Lodge has been hosting the wine industry leaders for a weekend of tastings and fun. de’Vine Wine and Culinary Weekend brings together over 200 wines from around the world for your pleasure.
Join myself and others from the Twin Cities food and wine scene for an entire weekend of wine! Lectures, tastings, dinners, and more wine that you can possibly imagine in one weekend. Come for the weekend and enjoy events from exquisite wine dinners on Friday night, to a series of classes on Saturday to a Champagne brunch and send off on Sunday morning! Mix, mingle and sip with the best of the Twin Cities scene, up north.
Here is the schedule of classes JUST for Saturday’s festivities:
10:30am | GUEST SPEAKER
Chef Lenny Russo from Heartland Restaurant & Wine Bar
11:45am-12:45pm | CULINARY CLASSES & WINE SEMINARS #1
European Innovators: New Directions in Old World Wines with Dana Bonelli from Domaine Select and Ginny McClure from Rootstock Wine.
Mixology: Jeff Rogers
Wine Wars: Old World vs New World with Leslee D. Miller, Amusée Wine and Joe Toohey from Chat Ste Michelle
Wine and Food Pairings with Heather Howard from Moët Hennessy
Vertical Tasting from the Duckhorn Cellars with Ellen Coffey, Duckhorn Regional Sales Rep
12:30pm | HIGH SCHOOL COOKING CHALLENGE
12:30pm | SOUP CHALLENGE BY GRAND VIEW CHEFS
2:00pm | CULINARY CLASSES & WINE SEMINARS #2
Wines from Down Under with Phil Peacock from New France Wines
Wine Wars: Old World vs. New World with Leslee D. Miller, Amusée Wine and Joe Toohey from Chat Ste Michelle (Norway Center)
Roughriders to Outlaws: Making the Renegade Red with Winemaker Mike Sinor from Ancient Peakes (Norway Center – Birch Room)
3:30pm | CULINARY CLASSES & WINE SEMINARS #3
Wines from Down Under with Phil Peacock from New France Wines
Deductive Tasting with Jason Kallsen from Twin Cities Wine Education
Roughriders to Outlaws: Making the Renegade Red with Winemaker Mike Sinor from Ancient Peakes (Norway Center – Birch Room)
Wine and Food Pairings with Heather Howard from Möet Hennessy
5:30pm | GRAND TASTING
Experience over 200 of the finest wines and a variety of culinary flavors delicately prepared by our talented chefs.