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Wine on Wheels 2015
Saturday, May 2nd, 2015

Join us on May 2nd for the Wine on Wheels Grand Tasting and Silent Auction featuring over 175 wines served by over 50 of New York City's esteemed sommeliers.

Schedule for Wine on Wheels 2015

A Tour of Sonoma Pinot Noir with Morgan Harris Sommelier of Aureole
and Ryan Bailey of Nomad Restaurant.
The Guild of Sommeliers and Morgan Harris will give you a detailed breakdown on the benchmark producers and explain what makes Sonoma so special and why it produces some of the finest Pinot Noir in the world. The Sonoma Seminar is a rare opportunity to taste some of the best Pinot Noir producers in all of California from older vintages. Morgan Harris currently works at the Michelin-starred Aureole restaurant and holds his advanced certification from the Court of Master Sommeliers. He has competed at the national level in several sommelier competitions and was named one of 2012s Best New Sommeliers by Wine and Spirits magazine. Ryan Bailey has earned his credentials by studying under Masters Sommeliers, Top Wine Educators, and Napa Valley Winemakers at Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in St. Helena and is currently the sommelier at Nomad Restaurant.
Reservation $150
11am - 12pm

Pre-Event Access
Unique opportunity to get in early at 12PM to meet with all the sommeliers in an intimate setting and sample limited reserve wines being poured during this hour. Includes admission to Grand Tasting.
Admission $150
12pm - 1pm

Wine on Wheels Grand Tasting
Admission In Advance $95 / At Event $125
1pm - 4pm
Grand Tasting featuring a selection of OVER 175 WINES being poured
by a prominent panel of OVER 50 SOMMELIERS. Tasty bites and hors d’oeurves will be provided by Taquitoria and City Winery, as well as a coffee sampling by Nespresso and Tumbador hand crafted chocolates. Plus, new for this year Wine on Wheels is proud to announce we will have 4 Fast Track Seminars of 20 minutes each and covering exciting wine regions and major wine topics with the top professionals. No other major consumer wine tasting offers such an experience with the most respected talent in the Wine World. These seminars will be:

"What's Happening in the Languedoc-Rousillon" with Jamal Rayyis of Sud de France
1:45PM - 2:05PM
The Languedoc-Roussillon is the largest wine producing region in the world, with a growing reputation for exceptional quality wines. Jamal Rayyis is the US correspondent/critic of the French wine publication Gilbert Gaillard and is writing a book on the politics of gastronomy. His blog www.PalateSavvy.com covers the world of wine and gastronomy from social and political perspectives.

A Taste of White Bordeaux with Andrew Rastelllo Sommelier of Eleven Madison Park
2:15PM - 2:35PM
Allow Andrew Rastello formerly of Gramercy Tavern and now the Sommelier at Eleven Madison Park to introduce you to the other side of Bordeaux. Bordeaux offers much more than red and sweet wines. Some of the most delicious and underrated dry white wines currently being produced in the wine world come from Bordeaux. Andrew will introduce you to steely and crisp styles to full and oaked Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc Blends.

How to Taste like a Sommelier Blind Tasting Session!
2:45PM - 3:05PM
Josh Nadel Wine Director of The Dutch and Jack Mason Wine Director of Marta's Restaurant will give you tips on how to taste and order the right wine for yourself next time you buy a bottle. All four wines poured will be individually wrapped so that Josh and Jack will not know what the wines are. They will give you some of their secret techniques on how to Blind Taste and you will be there every step of the way! Not to be missed!

How Cognac and Armagnac Ages with PM Spirits
3:10PM - 3:30PM
Sean Kerby is the Spiritual Leader of PM Spirits, a Boutique Import company specializing in small production spirits. He will do a comparative tasting of both a young Cognac and Armagnac and compare it to an older Cognac and Armagnac and explain the aging process that makes these two spirits so special.

Proceeds from Wine on Wheels benefit Wheeling Forward, a nonprofit that helps people with disabilities live life to the fullest. If you are unable to attend the event, but still would like to show your support please click here to donate

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 — com Nicolas Palazzi,Jessica Norris Certo, Thomas Pastuszak e outras 46 pessoas.

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Inspired by the daytime debauchery on Pampelonne Beach in St.-Tropez, where jet-setters arrive by Ferrari and yacht, early iterations began at Le Bilboquet on the Upper East Side in the early ’90s, and spread to meatpacking district flashpoints like Bagatelle and Merkato 55 in 2008. But more recently, these brunches have been supersized, moving from smaller lounges to brassy nightclubs like Lavo and Ajna. The party blog Guest of a Guest has taken to calling it the “Battle of the Brunches.” “Not everyone gets to run to the beach or jump on a plane,” said Noah Tepperberg, an owner of Lavo in Midtown, which started its brunch party a year ago. “If you want to leave your house on the weekend, brunch fills that void.” On a recent Saturday, Mr. Tepperberg stood in Lavo’s basement kitchen, surrounded by meat slicers and employees readying confectionary “poison apples” for a Halloween party for a pre-split Kim Kardashian. 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In a dangerously drunken take on a bar mitzvah ritual, a man spooning dessert out of a giant bowl will be seated on a chair and lifted high into the air by his cronies. BRUNCH SET Club-savvy guests seem piped in from Miami, Monaco and Merrill Lynch. “I’m from the South, so drinking during the day is not new to me,” said a woman who wore a Diane Von Furstenberg dress but not the necessary wristband to enter the V.I.P. area. Outside, near a black Aston Martin coupe, a young man wearing paint on his face and sunglasses delved into socioeconomics. “We’re the 1 percent,” he said to a woman, matter of factly. THE BUFFET The Nutella-stuffed croissants ($12) cater to Europeans, while a gimmicky $2,500 ostrich egg omelet (with foie gras, lobster, truffle, caviar and a magnum of Dom Perignon) is for aspiring Marie Antoinettes. Champagne bottles start at $500; packages with several bottles of liquor and mixers for mojitos or bellinis are $1,000. 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The scrum on an October afternoon included the son of a Mongolian dignitary, six scions of Mexican plutocracy wearing novelty somberos, and at least one supermodel. “She’s everywhere,” said Mr. Tepperberg, as the nymph, whose name he couldn’t remember, disappeared into the jungle of merriment. THE BUFFET With the emphasis on tabletop dancing, Italian trattoria offerings (margherita pizzas for $21, and lemon ricotta waffles for $19) are often abandoned underfoot and sprinkled with confetti. Proving alcohol reigns supreme here, ice buckets are carefully shielded with napkins. Bottle service rules: Moët Brut is $195 and liquor starts at $295. Balthazar and Nebuchadnezzar sizes surge toward the $10,000 mark. RISKY ROSé Alcohol and high-altitude dancing can be perilous: there was a brief hullabaloo in one corner when several women took a tumble. DID THE D.J. PLAY “WELCOME TO ST.-TROPEZ”? Yes. Eat Yo Brunch Yotel (570 10th Avenue, yotel.com); Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. If spending thousands of dollars makes your stomach turn, this newish party at Yotel is more easily digested. This affably cartoonish affair, held at the space-age hotel in Hell’s Kitchen with the design aesthetics of a Pokémon, draws a gay-friendly crowd lured northward by Patrick Duffy, a promoter. “There’s a lot of pressure in night life,” Mr. Duffy said. “But I feel like Sunday is a comedown. It doesn’t have to be perfect.” SIGNAL TO DANCE ON TABLES These connoisseurs of brunch wear designer shoes too stylish for tromping atop omelets. With a D.J. spinning dance tracks from LeLe and Earth, Wind & Fire, guests sip bellinis at the bar or banter at long communal tables. The performers are looser. One afternoon, Roxy Cottontail, a pink-haired promoter, vamped around the sunken dining area with a microphone. “Don’t make kitty pounce,” she rapped, before climbing atop a table. 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