A wonderful evening of wine tasting with Spain aficionado and awarded journalist Gerry Dawes.
Limited seating – reservations needed.
On May 10th at Nancy’s wines @ 7:00pm – 313 Columbus Ave (at 75th St) – 212 877 4040
On May 12th at AOC Wines, Old Greenwich, CT @ 7:00pm – 203 637 4541
On May 17th at AOC Wines, New Rochelle, NY @ 7:00pm – 914 335 2690
Tickets : $25.00
Gerry Dawes:
“In his nearly thirty years of wandering the back roads of Spain,” Gerry Dawes has built up a much stronger bank of experiences than I had to rely on when I started writing Iberia…His adventures far exceeded mine in both width and depth…”
James A. Michener, author of Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections
Gerry Dawes was awarded Spain’s prestigious Premio Nacional de Gastronomía (National Gastronomy Award) in 2003. He writes and speaks frequently on Spanish wine and gastronomy and leads gastronomy, wine and cultural tours to Spain. He was a finalist for the 2001 James Beard Foundation’s Journalism Award for Best Magazine Writing on Wine, won The Cava Institute’s First Prize for Journalism for his article on cava in 2004, was awarded the CineGourLand “Cinéfilos y Gourmets” (Cinephiles & Gourmets) prize in 2009 in Getxo (Vizcaya) and received the 2009 Association of Food Journalists Second Prize for Best Food Feature in a Magazine for his Food Arts article, a retrospective piece about Catalan star chef, Ferran Adrià.
Galicia:
“More than five years ago, I began visiting Ribeira Sacra, still practically unknown in this country. I found single row terraces of old vines mencía (with some garnacha tintorera and the white grapes, albariño and godello), growing on incredibly steep slate hillsides first planted by the Romans that plunge precipitously down to the dammed-up Sil and Minho rivers, making for some of the most spectacularly beautiful vineyards in the world (surpassing even the beauty of the Douro and Germany’s Moselle wine growing regions). These vineyards are so steep that steel railings have been placed at strategic points to allow the grapes to be hauled up and some, like a Cividade, are so precipitously steep and isolated that they can only be reached by boats, on which the grapes are placed during harvest to transport to the winery”.
Gerry Dawes – GerryDawes.com – Read More (http://www.gerrydawesspain.com/2007/05/galicias-green-gold-white-wines-from.html)
