Wine at Five

I was looking back at my notes from last year’s wine tasting and somehow I must have counted incorrectly because we called last year’s event the “5th”. Actually this year is – we opened on March 21, 2006 and did a whopping $56.00 on our first day! So if I count correctly this time, 2011 will be our 5th year. And the good news is, thanks to Gary Stone and his negotiating skills we have once again convinced the Board of the Wainwright House that Wine and Wainwright just seem to go together. And this year we will be together on Friday, May 20th.

So get out your diaries and INK in, May 20th 6:30pm. The 5th Wine at Five Annual Wine Tasting. It’s going to be a riot.

We will have to make a few changes because this year we will have to comply with certain rules and restrictions laid down by the P+Z Board.

~  Rule # 1: You will NOT be allowed to carry a jukebox on your shoulder – no music.

~  Rule # 2: You will NOT be allowed to park on the road, shoulder, and grass verge or anywhere other than a designated parking lot. We will have plans afoot to ensure adequate parking but we will also be hiring the local constabulary to assist with parking. If you can car pool, please do.

~ Rule # 3: You will NOT be allowed to skulk around and only eat Gary’s superb food.

~  Rule # 4: It will cost you more money this year – count on it.

We have been granted use of the tent so we will be able to cover more ground; but this year we also plan to reduce the number of tables, and reduce, slightly, the number of wines poured. We listened to numerous good criticisms from prior years and many guests felt that having 150+ wines was simply too daunting. We plan to review our trade import lists very thoroughly and between Marina, Bruno and I we think we can arrange for some really exquisite and different wines to be poured that night. In the past we have had 16+ tables consisting of 10+ wines per table. This year we plan to bring that down to 10 tables with a maximum of 10 wines per table. I also want to expand on an idea that I have been playing with and I want to make tables more specific in their choices – one of the ideas that we have going forward is to recreate Trade Tastings but for our customers; we want to rent space one evening and have a very limited, and very specific wine tasting illustrating the wines from one country, or one region – such as wines from Portugal; wines from New Zealand. These would be very limited affairs and highly specialized.

So, on Friday May 20^th we will hold our 5^th Annual Wine Tasting affair. We will ask you to car pool as best you can; we would remind you that the event, whilst a hell-of-a-lot-of-fun, is also a serious evening where you will be able to taste and choose the right wines for you; and where you will be able to order them at prices marginally over cost; we will not be able to accept cancellations unless the excuse is truly unique; and we ask that you respect the neighborhood since it is largely residential, with one or two Country Clubs next door!

Once all the plans have been addressed we will send out the invitations – we will also need to strictly limit the number of tickets – we don’t want to be the biggest wine tasting event in Westchester, we just want to be the best.

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