I Love Gamay starts tomorrow + come see us on tour!
I Love Gamay is around the corner. Have you reserved your seminar spot?!?
I Love Gamay is our favorite weekend of the year (May 3rd-May 6th, 2019). This event brings together winemakers, wine-lovers, restauranteurs, and Gamay-nerds of all shapes, sizes, and walks of life in a weekend of all out Gamay-zing celebration.
While the main event Gamay Tasting Salon on Sunday and the Sunday School Soirée on Friday are both now sold out, we do have some spots left for Saturday’s Field Trip and for Monday’s panel seminar and technical tasting Between Two Barrels: Why Gamay?
Between Two Barrels: Why Gamay? is an exciting opportunity to learn and taste with our four Gamay expert panelists, each coming from a unique background that they can pull from to deepen the main topic of why Gamay? There will be eight wines tasted during the seminar, including a few special older vintage wines dug up from personal cellars.
For you lovers of older vintage wines, a little birdy tells us that a rare early 1990s Chehalem Gamay will be making an appearance at Monday’s tasting!!!
Calling all Gamay fans! Let’s hop on a vintage bus and take an adventure to the beautiful Willamette Valley. This wine lovers paradise is practically in Portland’s backyard. In less than an hour we can be right where the grapes grow and the wine is made. Our favorite tour guide extraordinaire will be at the helm: Chevonne Ball of Dirty Radish, who leads exclusive tours in Oregon & France, including Beaujolais. (She’s Gamay-crazy like the rest of us!) Vincent Fritzsche, owner/winemaker of Vincent Wine Company will be chaperone, waxing poetic about all things Gamay. Our chauffeur Sean Kennedy of The Vintage Tour Bus Co. will get us there in style. This is a one of a kind adventure!!!
In case you missed our first round of market events, we are still at through the month of May and on into June.
Tom’s in New Orleans this week and Seattle May 21st & 22nd (More to come on that).
Kate’s in Minneapolis May 1st-May 3rd // NYC May 6th – May 10th // Boston May 13th – 17th.
Sophie’s in Asheville & Charlotte May the rest of this week // NYC May 6th – May 10th // Chicago May 20th – May 22nd.
Below you’ll find some highlights from the next leg of our tour. Peep the ‘gram and see what we’re up to in your neck of the woods!
If you haven’t visited Troubadour Wine Bar in Minneapolis, do yourself a favor and stop by this evening Thursday, 5/2. Hands down one of our favorite wine bars in the country, Troubadour boasts a great list that is totally unpretentious — we are flattered to be a part of it! Our very own Kate, otherwise known as True Gamine, will be pouring Division until late on 5/2. See you there, Minneapolis!
Catch Sophie @ Bond Street Wines in Charlotte this evening (Thursday May 2nd) from 6-8pm // $10; 5 awesome wines. Pouring & geeking hard all evening long with Kate @ Racines NY at a btg takeover on Tuesday May 7th. Pouring @ Leon & Son wines in Brooklyn on Friday May 10th.
Kate and Sophie will be pouring behind the bar @ Racines NY on Tuesday 5/7, 5pm to close. Serving up six new Division Wine Co. offerings btg that night along with Racines’ superb hospitality and elegant, tasty bites. Come keep us company while we tend bar!!! See you there, NYC.
Join us and our dear friend Brianne Day of Day Wines for an evening of laughter, mayhem, did we mention food & wine (??) @ Roberta’s in Brooklyn on Thursday May 9th. 5 courses, 10 wines, $115 all in. It’s going to be a blast!!!
On Monday, May 13th Sycamore in Newtown Massachusetts is thrilled to welcome Kate for an evening of a la carte small plates created to pair with a crazy-good line-up of Division wines that they’ll be pouring by both the half and full glass. Reservations are welcomed and encouraged throughout the evening (including at the bar!): e-mail lizzie@sycamorenewton.com or call 617-244-4445 for dibs!”
