"Wine at business meals is a skirmish in a boardroom war, played out on a linen table cloth. Your handling of wine, whether ordering it or just drinking it, matters more than you think to your colleagues. Sometimes people see your comfort or expertise with wine not as a comment on your knowledge, but on your character."
- Wall
Street Journal, May 5, 2000Serve up something different—a world class experience that's fun!
Create added value to your next meeting!
Passport to the Wines of the World
Use Eddie to custom design an international wine tasting reception to "kick-off" your meeting. This can be either a pre-dinner wine and light food reception, or it can replace dinner if done with more substantial hors d'oeuvres. Participants will be issued Passports that direct them to various stations that feature delicious wines and appetizer combinations from the most famous wine producing regions of the world. Eddie will work with your chef to create these unique food and wine combinations. These can include selections from France, Italy, Spain and Germany, to New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and Chile as well as the United States.
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Meet America's 1st Master Sommelier! Eddie will be on hand to answer one-on-one questions. This wine tasting reception causes people to move around the room. This creates a good opportunity for networking and building rapport amongst attendees. Often people feel uncomfortable at these receptions, feeling that they have to make some idle "chit-chat". Eddie selects unique food-wines, strategically chosen to enhance the hors d'oeuvres, which offers them something to talk about. People never bring pens and paper to events, and therefore never remember what specific vintages or precise food and wine pairings they experience. The Passport they are issued delineates all of the food and wine of the evening, and thus serves as a useful and informative souvenir of your event. |
Power Entertaining with Food & Wine ...A "during dinner" Keynote Address
Eddie's signature "during dinner" event. Eddie will utilize pairs of wines to enhance your dinner, and will work with your chef to custom-design a dinner unlike any others you've seen. Eddie discusses the concept of "food-wines" and demonstrates why some wines enhance food flavors better than others. This is highly entertaining...with an explosive start-up, followed by humorous anecdotes and true stories.
Learn Something New!
All too often people seem to adhere to a strict set of rules (protocol) when it comes to entertaining with wine and food. What's that all about? It's time to learn how to do it differently. Listen to the way Master Sommelier Eddie Osterland would like to see you do it.
Go way beyond the expectations of your clients/guests: Use the right glasses, use large-format bottles, chill the reds, decant the wines, serve the best foods and wines first, go with pairs of wines that teach your guests about food-wines. Push the envelope and entertain from the position of Power...your guests will be impressed!
Power Entertaining with Food and Wine - for Executives
This is the more academic side of the Power Entertaining with Food and Wine event. It is a class that is handled with a dynamic PowerPoint presentation. It is not done with a meal; however minimal food is used simply for the purpose of illustrating the concept of "food wines". We roll up our sleeves, and delve more deeply into the entertaining issues that corporate executives face regularly.
We use five wines; one sparkling, two whites, and two reds.
Quest for the Best: Discover the Finest Wines of the World
Many people haven't had the opportunity to experience truly great wines--wines that, once tasted, become indelible experiences of a lifetime. Because of this, Eddie takes great delight in selecting tasting themes that are limited only by one's imagination.
Possibilities include explorations into the famous regions of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Italy and California.
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Horizontal tastings: ie. wines from different
wine producers all focused on one famous vintage |
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Vertical tastings: ie. a series of wines from
the same wine producer from different vintages |
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Comparative International tastings: here the best of California are compared with the same grape variety from France in order to see the stylistic differences between them. |
Wines are chosen according to the budget of the client, and in some cases are shipped in from the source.
"Wine knowledge is a powerful tool for today's businessperson providing leverage in all business entertaining. Eddie Osterland's dynamic but expert approach makes learning about wine just as much fun as drinking it." - Mary Ewing-Mulligan, Master of Wine and co-author, Wine For Dummies
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