The Seventh Annual Wine Advocate Seminar and Tasting

Twelve Baroli from the 2007 Vintage and Great Friends, Great Food, Great Causes...and Great Wine (BYOB) Dinner

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Antonio Galloni will host The Wine Advocate Seminar and Tasting on Tuesday, October 18, 2011, at 1:30 p.m. at The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone campus in the Napa Valley. This will be the seventh in the series benefiting the CIA's Robert M. Parker, Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund for students at the Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies and the first appearance for Mr. Galloni.

The tasting will feature 12 extraordinary Barolo wines from the heralded 2007 vintage, which Mr. Galloni describes as "... radiant, intensely perfumed and totally seductive, yet not at all heavy, in a style that offers textural richness." The Wine Advocate scores for these famously long-lived wines of Italy's Piedmont region range from 94 to 99.

Mr. Galloni published the first edition of his Piedmont Report in 2004 following a three-year stint in Milan, where he was able to rekindle his love for the wines of Italy that first ignited as a young man in his parents' retail wine shop. The Piedmont Report was soon distributed in more than 25 countries, and Antonio's wine reviews expanded to include other regions of Italy. Robert Parker invited Antonio to join The Wine Advocate in 2006 and, soon after, his "beat" expanded to include Champagne, Chablis, and the Côte d'Or in France. In February of this year, Mr. Parker announced that Antonio Galloni would assume responsibilities for reviewing the wines of California for The Wine Advocate.

The Culinary Institute of America is thrilled to have Antonio Galloni continue the annual seminar and tasting series during his October visits to review the wines of California. Mr. Galloni has also agreed to host the traditional Great Friends, Great Food, Great Causes...and Great Wine (BYOB) Dinner at PRESS Restaurant in St. Helena later that evening, which also benefits the CIA's Robert M. Parker, Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund, now over $1.1 million, as well as The Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Mr Galloni's favorite charity.

Reservations for the 2011 Wine Advocate Seminar and Tasting: Twelve Great Barolo from the 2007 Vintage with Antonio Galloni are $1,000 per person ($700 of which is tax-deductible).

Reservations for the Great Friends, Great Food, Great Causes...and Great Wine (BYOB) Dinner at PRESS Restaurant are $1,250 per person ($1,000 of which is tax-deductible).

Special price for both events: $2,000 per person ($1,700 of which is tax-deductible)

You'll want to make your reservations early, as both events sell out quickly.

To make a reservation, please contact Reuben Katz at 707-967-2305 or r_katz@culinary.edu.