Wine at Five

On January 31st we will hold the inaugural dinner for wine enthusiasts who want to share a bottle of their wine with like-minded enthusiasts all willing to bring one of their great wines to the dinner. This dinner is not a sales promotion – we have negotiated with the owners of Morgan’s Restaurant to charge us a flat fee, inclusive of everything, with no corkage charge, and a five course set dinner. The chef will create the five courses so that they will individually pair with the theme for this first dinner – wines from Bordeaux vintages 1980-1989.

It’s a terrific chance to dust off some older wines you have in storage and bring them out to dinner. With eight fellow diners you have the opportunity to taste eight different wines from this decade of great vintages. Since guests are vetted on their ability to bring a wine associated with this theme there will be no duplicates. That’s 8 different Bordeaux ranging in age from 30-21 years old! Wow – when have you ever done that before.

This dinner is really an opportunity to taste various great wines with people who are totally into wine. No offense to my friends but I have few that would appreciate an evening like this, which is why I have so much old vintage wine in my cellar! Dinners like this have been circulating around NYC for some time and their popularity has increased immeasurably – so much so that some of the ‘hot’ tables are reserved within minutes of the tweet going out. This is our first, and we’ll learn from it – I would like to make the evening even more interesting by adding a competitive edge to it – during the night you will get a chance to rate each wine (each wine will be poured from decanter and will technically be ‘blind’); the guest that brings the highest rated wine will receive a gift certificate from Wine at Five valued at the cost of the dinner – $85.00.

So check out your diaries, and check out your cellars. If you have the evening free, if you have a Bordeaux 1980-1989, if you want to meet fellow oenophiles, and if you have some spare dosh, call us now to reserve your seat. There are only 7 seats per dinner.

Call: 914-921 5950 or e-mail wineatfive@verizon.net

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