For The Love Of Port

USA - Port Tastings 2007 - San Francisco - Miami - Chicago - New York

This coming month of April four Portuguese Table Wine & Port Wine Tastings are already scheduled to take place in four American cities.

A specific "Port Wine Area" will be designated at each individual event.

:arrow: San Francisco - [California] - Thursday, April 12, 2007
The Palace Hotel
2 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94150
http://www.sfpalace.com
Click here to find out about the exhibitors and registration for this event in San Francisco.

:arrow: Miami - [Florida] - Sunday, April 15, 2007.
Ritz Carlton Hotel Miami
One Lincoln Road
Miami Beach, FL 33139
http://www.ritzcarlton.com
Click here to find out about the exhibitors and registration for this event in Miami.

:arrow: Chicago - [Illinois] - Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
Intercontinental Hotel Chicago
505 North Michigan Avenue, IL 60611-3807
http://www.intercontinental.com
Click here to find out about the exhibitors and registration for this event in Chicago.

:arrow: New York - [New York] - Thursday, April 19, 2007.
The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers
Chelsea Piers
Phone: 212-336-6029
http://www.piersixty.com
Click here to find out about the exhibitors and registration for this event in New York.

Program:
2:30pm - 3:00pm: Seminar about Portuguese Wine Regions and Portuguese Grape Varietals.
2:00pm - 8:00pm: Wine Tasting for Trade & Press.
5:30pm - 8:00pm: Wine Tasting for General Consumers, Wine Clubs' members and Wine Connoisseurs.
6:00pm - 6:30pm: Consumer Seminar.

The organizers:
- Icep Portugal - http://www.icep.pt
- The Douro and Port Wine Institute - http://www.ivdp.pt
- Viniportugal - http://www.viniportugal.pt

*note: post edited on March 13th, 2007, to update the venues for each event.

How do we sign up for these?

Moses Botbol wrote:How do we sign up for these?

Moses -

I do not know specifics about that yet but am planning to add further posts with updates regarding those tastings. :)

Please keep an eye on this thread

MF

The ICEP wine & port tasting was in Montreal last Monday. Normally the first 2 hours are for the trade(restaurants and professionals) then it is open for everyone. I guess you could just present yourself at the entrance and ask for permission to get in. It was like that in Montreal.

I did not taste much as I was working for a producer but there was at least 300 different products to taste.

One of my favorite wine of those I tasted was Marquês de Borba 2003 Reserva. I brought back the remaining at home and I can say that over the 3 days period I drank it, it was just keeping getting better!

mario,
yes, please keep us informed as to these tastings. are you coming to any of these yourself? how much of these events are port driven as opposed to other portugese wines?
moses--maybe this april is our first offline in nyc!!

dave

Yes, please do keep tell us more. Living in New York, I'm particularly keen to know about that one.

Thank you so very much Mario!!! This is exactly the type of event I have looking and hoping for in the Chicago area. Looking forward to details and marking the calendar!!

Will you be attending?

Best wishes,
David

Prezado Mario,

This will be a great opportunity to draw in all of the local Porto afficionados in the area (New York).

Definatelly keep us in the loop.

Maybe Roy could find an excuse to come out to the east coast again for a due diligence meeting!

Paulo

:idea:

dave leach wrote: [...] are you coming to any of these yourself? [...]

David Sweet wrote: [...] Will you be attending? [...]

Hi There,

Unfortunately I've not made any plan to attend those events in the USA.
However, my agenda might change. If so, I will post on this thread again to inform you both whether I'm coming for any of those US Port Wine Tastings.

dave leach wrote: [...] how much of these events are port driven as opposed to other portugese wines? [...]

I guess the portuguese still / table wines area will definitely be much bigger than the Port Wine area. However, I'm pretty sure Port Wines will be very well represented as well. :)

best
Mário

I've just updated the venues for each event.
You may may find it above on my first post of this thread.

dave leach wrote: [...] are you coming to any of these yourself? [...]

David Sweet wrote: [...] Will you be attending? [...]

Dave / David - I plan to attend the NYC tasting on April 19th. I'm assisting my good friends of Quinta do Silval and will be pouring wines at their table in New York. :) So, if you are coming over we'll definitely have a chance to meet :)

b/r
-Mário-

Mario,

Too bad you won't be at the San Fransisco event. There is a good chance I will be heading to Napa to see my brother that week and a trip into San Fran is not that far. Hopefully I can get up there and make the event.

Andy

Let me know by PM close to the date if your coming to the SF event and we can hook up for the tasting and perhaps an offline at my house. David, that goes for you as well if you can get out of the mountains!

Jay

Jay,
Ill let you know...I am in the planning stages of my trip now.

Looks like I may be joining you guys for the SF tasting.

My sister from Atlanta will be at a conference in SF that weekend, and of course it would be great to hook up with the FTLOP gang. I'll probably arrive early Thurs and I'll have to bail early Sunday morning to make it back for another event in Seattle.

I'm in the process of fixing my forum PM, so if you need to contact me, please email admin@fortheloveofport.com

Would love to coordinate with anyone else there or traveling there.

Stewart

Is there a website, in English, where I can sign up for one of these? The hotel websites are not any help. I don't see anything on the ICEP website or the Duoro and Port Wine Institute website. The Viniportugal website appears to not have an English translation. I would like to go to the Chicago event, but can't figure out how to sign up.

Thanks,
John

Ditto John--if you find out how to register for Chicago event please let me know.

Thanks!!

David

John Danza wrote:Is there a website, in English, where I can sign up for one of these? [...]

David Sweet wrote:Ditto John--if you find out how to register for Chicago event please let me know.[...]

John / David -

I will find out about the details for Registration for these events and will post that info here (on this thread) :)
Several emails from various sources inquiring about those Wine Tastings have already been emailed to me. So, as soon as I get the info I plan to use this thread to inform everybody. 8)

Best
MF

Thank you so very much Mario!! Don't you just hate inpatient (but excited!) responses? :)

David

Thanks very much Mario!

John

This sounds like some fun...I'm sure I'll be able to attend the NYC event!