Wine & Spirits - February 2018 - 11

happenings
February 17/CA
San Francisco Chronicle
Wine Competition
winejudging.com

FEBRUARY

5/Houston, TX
Slow Wine
slowwineusa.com

1/FL
Palm Beach Wine Auction
palmbeachwineauction.org
1-4/Santa Fe, NM
Taos Winter Wine Festival
taoswinterwinefest.com
5-6/Angers, France
Le Salon des Vins de Loire
salondesvinsdeloire.com
9-10/South Africa
Cape Wine Auction
thecapewineauction.com
21-25/FL
South Beach Wine & Food Festival
sobewff.org

photo of Anderson Valley Aromatic White Wine Festival by Kacy
Palmier; photo of Warren Winiarski by Bob McClenahan

Warren Winiarski

7/San Francisco, CA
Slow Wine
slowwineusa.com
17/Minneapolis, MN
Winter Wine Fest
mngrapes.org

February 24-25/CA
Anderson Valley Aromatic
White Wine Festival
avwines.com
28-March 4/SC
Charleston Wine + Food
charlestonwineandfood.com

MARCH
1/NYC
Slow Wine
slowwineusa.com

22-25/Seattle, WA
Taste Washington
tastewashington.org
March 2-3/Santa Barbara, CA
World of Pinot Noir
worldofpinotnoir.com

5-6/NYC
Vinexpo
vinexponewyork.com

Warren Winiarski has been inducted into the
California Hall of Fame, joining Robert Mondavi as
the only winemakers on the list. Winiarski started
his wine career as Mondavi's first winemaker, before
planting his own cabernet vineyard in Napa in 1970.
A wine from that vineyard, the 1973 Stag's Leap
Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon, would go on to
catapult California onto the world wine stage when
it won the Judgment of Paris, a blind tasting pitting
California wines against French classics. Winiarski
has been a staunch advocate for environmental
conservation since the late 1960s, when he became
the first in Napa Valley to place vineyard land
under a conservation easement to ensure it would remain in agricultural use forever. He's
since donated more than 200 acres of vineyard and open space to the Land Trust of Napa
County. Winiarski and his wife, Barbara, also instigated the launch of the Smithsonian Institute
National Museum of American History's American Food & Wine History Project, an archive of
stories and oral histories documenting wine in American culture. Other 2017 inductees include
entertainer Lucille Ball; bioscientist Susan Desmond-Hellmann; artist and activist Mabel
McKay; atmospheric chemist Mario J. Molina; quarterback Jim Plunkett; poet Gary Snyder;
filmmaker Steven Spielberg and musician Michael Tilson Thomas. -TARA Q. THOMAS

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7 Mares Vermute
Portugal has a long-standing
history with fortified wines,
namely Port and Madeira, and
now 7 Mares is making a name
for vermouth. Dehydrated Azores
red pepper, Bravo de Esmolfe
apple and gum rockroses, all
native Portuguese specimens,
are some of the 32 botanicals
used to infuse the white wine.
Star-anise flavors take a front
seat on the palate, along with
Sichuan pepper and lemon oil,
with a sea-salty vigor. Striking a
balance between sweetness and
bitterness, it's refreshing served
chilled over ice. -D.G.
$20 at vermute7mares.com

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