About the Event
Schedule:
8:00am - 5:00pm: San Sophia Overlook
Location: San Sophia Overlook San Sophia Station Telluride, CO 81435
Oysters, Birds & Bubbles
This landlocked celebration of the ocean’s most revered delicacies will let you taste your way through delightful preparations and presentations. Enjoy them raw, grilled, steamed, fried-even paired with award-winning Southern BBQ-all coupled with a thoughtful selection of Champagne and sparkling wines. Sip, shuck, and “shell-berate” with live music at this effortlessly effervescent event.
Grand Tasting
With hundreds of sips from national, international and regional wineries at locations scattered throughout town, you are in for a treat! This unique Grand Tasting event showcases Telluride’s culinary leaders-award-winning chefs, mixologists, and wine professionals-who will share bites and sips that explore and celebrate our dynamic food-and-beverage scene while embracing downtown Telluride’s historic architecture and breathtaking views. Get ready to raise a glass and toast to Telluride.
Wine Dinner
Weekend Passes include entry to Oysters, Birds, & Bubbles; The Grand Tasting; The Friends with Bennies Brunch; AND admission to one speciality dinner of your choice - Zamora Wine Dinner at Sidewalk or The Old Bridge Dinner at La Marmotte
Friends with Bennies Brunch
Is it even brunch if there aren’t Benedicts? Our chefs are serving up a multitude of gourmet Benedicts alongside of fun and inventive breakfast cocktails. Grab a friend and end your festival weekend with a Sunday Funday you won’t want to miss!
2:00pm - 4:00pm: BLENDED REDS SEMINAR
Location: Petite Maison Telluride, Colorado
This event is an attendee favorite! Bring out your creative juices (pun intended) at this interactive and hands-on tasting experience. By tasting Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot independently, attendees will be guided to a deeper understanding of the four red appelations, and how they can blend together to create the red wines that we all know and love.
Join the producers of Buckel Wines as they discuss their process of blending for their own wines. As you taste and discuss each wine, you will analyze its unique flavors, aromas, body, tannins, and mouth feel and learn how the world’s leading winemakers combine these grape varietals to create their own unique blends.
4:00pm - 7:00pm: OYSTERS, BIRDS, AND BUBBLES
Location: Elks Park 122 South Oak Street Telluride, Co 81435
This landlocked celebration of the ocean’s most revered delicacies will let you taste your way through delightful preparations and presentations. Enjoy them raw, grilled, steamed, fried-even paired with award-winning Southern BBQ-all coupled with a thoughtful selection of Champagne and sparkling wines. Sip, shuck, and “shell-berate” with live music at this effortlessly effervescent event.
6:00pm - 8:00pm: OLD BRIDGE CELLARS DINNER
Location: La Marmotte 150 W San Juan Avenue Telluride, Co 81320
In this age of ‘big company’ buyouts, increasing consolidation and mass production, Old Bridge Cellars brings to you a group of fiercely independent winemakers who retain their belief in artisan winemaking. Coming to know their land through the generations before them, they have an intuitive understanding, quiet confidence and desire to produce only the best they can from each vintage. In standing resolute behind their own style, they’ve established themselves as regional pioneers, benchmarks and leaders alike, universally acclaimed by wine critics across the globe.
Old Bridge Cellars’ allegiance to fine wine and regional expression has been recognized in such publications as The Wine Advocate, Wine Spectator, Wine & Spirits, International Wine Cellar and Wine Enthusiast. Robert Parker of The Wine Advocate has gone so far as to say, “thanks in large part to the work of such talented importers as Old Bridge Cellars et all, American consumers have never had such an enormous selection of Australia’s finest as well as rarest wines.”
La Marmotte’s Chef D’ Cuisine Matt Hislop will bring dinner guests on a four course tasting experience that will include nods to the unique regions that produce these wines and culinary creations that reflect the artisanal foods movement - ingredients sourced from small farmers are lovingly guided into small batch creations by the hands of a skilled master with years of experience in their craft.
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