FLAVor!nAPA VALLEY spices it up for 2012 Second Annual Food & Wine Festival includes 50 chefs and over 125 vintners, and adds two days of hands-on immersions “Tand drew more than 3,000 never too late to start planning the first female Master Sommelier in the andThe Wine Bible,CIA and author ofNapa Valley resident Andrea Robinson,for the Second AnnualIt’s still mid-summer, but it’she 2011 Flavor! Napa ValleyEvent exceeded our expectations people to the Valley during a time of year United States. Flavor!napa Valley that has traditionally lower occupancy,” 2012 Flavor! Napa Valley kicks off said Clay Gregory, President and Chief food and wine festival, with a new, two-day series of authentic Executive Officer of the Napa Valley scheduled fornovember 14–18. experiences at locations throughout the Destination Council. “We were also Napa Valley. Terroir to Table: Farm,Following a successful 2011 able to make a substantial donation to the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) debut, an impressive array of Napa Valley’s superlative wine and food,Cellar & Kitchen is an immersion into from the festival’s net proceeds,” added napa Valley-based celebrity offering eager enthusiasts the chance to Gregory. chefs, restaurants, vintners, learn from the region’s culinary leaders Napa Valley Chef Michael Chiarello, sommeliers and artisan food with a series of intimate, hands-on V A L L E Y the originator of the Flavor! Napa Valley producers are set to once again workshops in a way no other food and concept, is joined again this year by fellow headline this year’sFlavor! wine festival can. Napa Valley chefs such as Thomas Keller, According to festival producer Herb food and wineapa Valley™n Christopher Kostow, Cindy Pawlcyn and Masaharu Morimoto. Visiting graduates of festival. Tickets go on sale two-day tasting of wines “that have andKarlitz, one of the festival highlights is a the Culinary Institute of America include in mid-July and the festival’s continue to put Napa Valley on the map, Scott Conant, returning for his second net proceeds support student reaching back to the post-Prohibition N A P A year, along with Geoffrey Zakarian, Johnny programs and scholarships at wines of the ’40s through the present day.” Iuzzini, Charlie Palmer, Larry Forgione ThecIA’s Greystonecampus Featured wines at this once-in-a- and all three of his sons—Marc, Sean in St.helena,napa Valley. lifetime tasting include many of the most and Bryan—cooking a course together storied wines from Napa Valley’s rich at the opening night tribute dinner to I N history, from a pioneering 1957 Louis their father, a chef often referred to as the Martini Pinot Noir to wines from current “godfather of American cuisine.” celebrated vintners Hundred Acre, Shafer, F O O D Wine experts include author and CIA David Arthur and many more. graduate Rajat Parr, the wine director For more information, along with a complete of the Mina Group, along with Karen lineup of festival events and activities, please MacNeil, Director of Wine Studies at the visit www.flavornapavalley.com. 18 w w w . n A P A V A L L E Y L I F E m A G A z I n E . c o m
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