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Wine Tasting in
LIVERMORE VALLEY Wine Country
Taste Livermore Valley’s Terroir, July 19 in Pleasanton
Judges to Select Best Pairings of
Food and Wine at Popular Event
Wine experts Deborah Parker Wong of
The Tasting Panel, Lynne Char Bennett of
the San Francisco Chronicle’s Food &
Wine department and Chef Jeffrey
Anderson of Safeway, Inc. will judge
gourmet pairings at “Taste of Terroir,”
Livermore Valley’s Wine & Food Experience
on July 19. The panel will sample
food and wine pairings presented by 16 of
the region’s wineries and their restaurant
partners before awarding Most Innovative
Pairing, Judges’ Best and Best Classic
Pairing. Guests at this popular public event
will have opportunity to taste all of the
pairings, bid on luxurious silent auction
items and cast a vote in the People’s Choice
competition.
Silent auction items include several
wine country gift baskets containing
LIVERMORE VALLEY
W I N E R I E S
award-winning wine paired with restaurant,
limousine and spa gift certificates.
Guests also will have the opportunity to
bid on a limited edition giclee print of the
painting “Sarafina” by local artist Jill
Denton that is featured on the 31st Livermore
Valley Harvest Wine Celebration
poster and program cover.
The event takes place at the Palm Event
Center in Pleasanton, from 6 to 9 p.m. on
Thursday, July 19. Tickets are $85 per
person. Ticket price includes a tasting of
each of the 16 food and wine pairings, live
music by Motel Sheets and a decadent
dessert and cheese spread sponsored by US
Foodservice and paired with Livermore
Valley Ports.
Funds raised at this event benefit the
Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association.
For tickets and more information,
visit www.LVwine.org.
Teams for the Taste of Terroir 2012
competition include: Cedar Mountain
Winery with Porter’s Restaurant at Poppy
Ridge Golf Course, Concannon Vineyard
with Underdog Wine Bar, Crooked Vine
Winery with El Sacromonte Restaurant and
Bar, Cuda Ridge Wines with Sanctuary
Ultra Lounge & Restaurant, Darcie Kent
Vineyards with Nieman Marcus Café, Eagle
Ridge Vineyard with Terra Mia, Garré Vineyard
& Winery with Garré Café, Las
Positas Vineyards with Scott’s Seafood Grill
& Bar, Longevity Wines with The Winemaker’s
Pour House, McGrail Vineyards &
Winery with Double Barrel Wine Bar,
Mitchell Katz Winery with Beets Catering
at Casa Real, Nottingham Cellars with
Handles Gastropub, Page Mill Winery with
First Street Alehouse, Rodrigue Molyneaux
with Castlewood Country Club, The
Steven Kent Winery with Neil Marquis
Catering and Wente Vineyards with The
Restaurant at Wente Vineyards.
The Livermore Valley Winegrowers
Association is a 501(c)6 organization that
supports the wineries, growers, and
members in the Livermore Valley American
Viticultural Area though educational and
marketing programs. Visit the website at
at www.LVwine.org.
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