GRAND TASTING

Private Selection Experience

All information listed below pertainS to the 2024 event.

Stay tuned for updates for 2025

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In addition to enjoying all that the Grand Tasting has to offer, Private Selection guests can expect exclusive access to a private lounge and additional pours of the festival’s featured top-shelf wines. 

The Private Selection experience, sponsored by Michael & Teresa Radzinski, will feature a special culinary selection by local restaurant favorites, La Nouvelle by Michaels and Collage. While guests enjoy delicious gourmet bites and generous pours of high-end Spanish wines, they can peruse the exhibit at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum. This Private Selection lounge, includes access to private restrooms and is only open to Private Selection ticketholders. 

Exclusive VIP Wines

  • Pazo Torre Penelas, Blanco Granito, Albarino '19

  • Famiia Torres, Milmanda, Chardonnay '14

  • Arinzano, Gran Vino '14

  • Mas Martinet, Els Escurcons, Priorat '19

  • Bodega Beronia, III a.C., Tempranillo '16

  • Marques de Murrieta, Dalmau '19

  • Vega Sicilia, Unico, Ribera del Duero '12

Exclusive Private Selection Hors d'oeuvres

Passed Hors d'oeuvres

Fennel apple phyllo cups with a tahini sauce and pickled shallots

Sliced venison on a crostini served with whipped herb goat cheese topped with bacon agrodolce

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Chilled Seafood Tower

kaluga caviar, prosecco poached shrimp, cocktail crab claws, oysters on the half shell, poke tuna salad, salpicon puerto rican octopus salad, maine cold water lobster salad

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Private Viewing and Tour

A Landscape Longed for: The Garden as Disturbance features work by 15 artists, each of whom, using various mediums and perspectives, explores the motif of the garden in its relation to the cultivation and expression of beauty and knowledge.

VIP Experience ticket holders can enjoy a guided tour with the exhibit’s curators at 3 pm.

Laura Novoa and Adler Guerrier thoughtfully curated the show. Novoa is a curator and arts administrator based in Miami, FL, where she works as Assistant Director of Programs and Community Engagement at the Bakehouse Art Complex.

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