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OWEn AnDREWS, Chef/Owner, Andrews Catering

JERMAInE “MOnK” GEORGE, Chef, Tree house Restaurant

Past: Owner, Café Harvesters, Lanzerac Estate, Universal Wine Bar, guest chef on
Regent of the Seven Seas. Showcased in the 2014 cookbook, Savour Barossa, he is
a passionate advocate for Barossa Cuisine.

Chef, Tree House Restaurant, Virgin Gorda. Member of the BVI Culinary Team. Past: Hilltop at
Biras Creek Resort, a 2013 Conde Nast Traveler “35 Best Island Resorts for Food,” Maine’s
White Barn Inn, a Relais & Chateux member.

FESTIVAL EVEnTS: Gala Winemakers Dinner + Live Wine Auction, Pop-Up in Bucks County:
A 7-Course Winemakers Dinner, Sunday Stein + Vine at Summer Stage Wilmington, Turk’s
Head Winemakers Dinner

FESTIVAL EVEnTS: The Vine and the Net: A Seafood Winemakers Lunch, British Virgin Islands
Sunday by the Bay
Tower Road, The Valley, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands | thetreehousebvi.com

Nuriootpa, Barossa Valley, Australia | owenandrewscatering.com.au
TOMMy DEn hARTOG, Chef, Johannes

GyAnEnDRA GUPTA, Executive Chef, Vivanta by Taj–holiday Village

Past: Chalet Royal, De Hoefslag, Vinkeles, Dylan Hotel Amsterdam. He was educated in
the “star class,” considered the toughest and highest culinary education in the Netherlands,
run by Dutch master chefs, and quickly excelled in Michelin-star restaurants.

Past: Hotel Jai Mahal Palace, home to 6 restaurants and winner of Best Indian Cuisine
at an All India Chefs Competition and has catered to President George H.W. Bush, British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Indian Prime Minister Deve Gowda.

FESTIVAL EVEnTS: Duck Five Ways Winemakers Supper, Historic New Castle Festival Lunch
Tour, Pop-Up in Bucks County: A 7-Course Winemakers Dinner, Open THAT Bottle

FESTIVAL EVEnTS: Sunday Stein + Vine at Summer Stage Wilmington, Gala Winemakers
Dinner + Live Wine Auction, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware Winemakers Dinner,
Historic New Castle Festival Lunch Tour, Wilmington Trust Winemakers Dinner in the Barn at
Big Bend Farm

Herengracht 413, Amsterdam, Netherlands | restaurantjohannes.nl/en

Dando, Candolim, Bardez, Goa, India | vivantabytaj.com/holiday-village-goa/dining.html

This 5-course winemakers dinner features Italian food, plenty
of Italian wine, and among the 5 chefs will be one from Olevano
sul Tusciano, the Italian sister city of Wilmington, Delaware. Each
course features Olevano’s fine, first cold pressed extra virgin olive
oil, and will be served family style.
Menu highlights: Olive oil poached gulf shrimp and lemon risotto,
English pea soup with lardo, charred ramp oil and shad roe
bottarga, veal filet with crust of beans and brown sauce with dried
tomato pesto, butter biscuit with caramel mousse, flambéed apples
and vanilla sauce
Chefs: Roger Surpin, Fabio Raiola, Gyanendra Gupta, JD Morton,
Gérard Ménétrier
Winemakers: Eduardo Sainz, Duncan Savage
Wines: Lagarde Winery, The Old Faithful, Chateau Lagrezette,
Domaine Kikones, Hook & Ladder, Cape Point Vineyards,
Príncipe de Viana, Rioja Vega, 3 Corners, Crow Vineyard, Ee’Z

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