banville & jones events
As we move out of winter and into spring, Banville & Jones Wine Co. gives you several reasons to wake from hibernation with its innovative events calendar.
Wine In Pairs Tasting in pairs is the ultimate way to understand matching food and wine! Guest chefs from the city’ s most exciting restaurants and our team of wine experts will delight you with their creations.
Cooking and Wine Tasting Classes The evening includes exclusive wine pairings, gourmet food tasting with recipes from Winnipeg’ s finest chefs, and a Banville & Jones apron for you to take home.
Luxury Tasting Once a month, our wine experts open the doors of our Specialties cabinets to explore some of Banville & Jones’ s exclusive treasures.
Tasting Tours Wine & Cheese Wine & Cheese pairs some of our favourite wines with a selection of Bothwell cheeses.
Wine Lover’ s Walkabout Held in our Tuscan Room, this is a great event to mingle with other wine enthusiasts and taste some fun wines selected by our experts.
Returning this summer: Tasting on the Terrace When the sun returns, join us on our beautiful Tuscan terrace for a wonderful summer evening of wine tasting!
Banville & Jones is proud to announce two very special Tuscan wine events:
Ciao Bella! Join winemaker Lia Banville for an afternoon tasting of Lia’ s award-winning Tuscan wines. Lia will also preview her Banville & Jones Wine Merchants portfolio featuring tastes from the best wines of Italy! Date: Saturday, February 28 Time: 1:00 – 5:00 pm Cost: $ 29.99
Ode to Tuscany Pierluigi Tolaini hosts his first winemaker’ s dinner featuring Chef Michael Dacquisto. We will showcase the highly acclaimed wines of Tolaini Estate including Picconero, Tolaini’ s flagship wine.( 94 points in Wine Enthusiast).
Date: Saturday, March 21. Time: 7:00 pm Cost: $ 99.00 per person, plus taxes( limited seating)
Test Kitchen Encore As a new feature event, join our very own Chef Joel Lamoureux to savour the current Test Kitchen recipe and wine parings( see pages 47 – 49 for the recipe and wine pairing).
BANVILLE & JONES WINE EVENTS SCHEDULE February 2009 through May 2009 Events begin at 7:00 pm unless otherwise noted. Please check www. banvilleandjones. com for updated information on wine event themes and dates.
Wine in Pairs Cost: $ 69.99 per person, plus taxes Sunday, February 8: Wine in Pairs with Bistro 7 1 / 4 Friday, February 13: Red Hot Reds with Chef Craig Guenther Saturday, February 21: California Dreamin’ with Dandelion Eatery Saturday, March 7: Northern Italy with Amici Restaurant Tuesday, March 17: Go Green with Craig Guenther Friday, March 27: Tuscany with Amici Restaurant Saturday, April 18: Wine in Pairs with Craig Guenther Wednesday, April 22: Wine in Pairs with Pizzeria Gusto Sunday, April 26: Wine in Pairs with Bistro 7 1 / 4 Tuesday, May 5: Cinco de Mayo with Café Dario Saturday, May 9: Staff Picks with Amici Restaurant Friday, May 29: Wine in Pairs with Dandelion Eatery
Cooking and Wine Tasting Classes Cost: $ 89.99 per person, plus taxes Wednesday, February 18: Hot and Spicy with Rembrandt’ s Tuesday, March 24: Cooking with Pizzeria Gusto
Luxury Tasting Cost: $ 99.00 per person, plus taxes Thursday, February 26: Pinots Thursday, March 12: Super Tuscan! Thursday, May 28: Southern Hemisphere
Wine and Cheese Cost: $ 35.99 per person, plus taxes Friday, February 27 Friday, April 24 Friday, May 22
Wine Lover’ s Walkabout Cost: $ 35.99 per person, plus taxes Friday, February 6
Test Kitchen Encore Cost: $ 89.99 per person, plus taxes Thursday, May 21
Visit www. banvilleandjones. com for info about our wine enthusiast classes in Assiniboine Community College’ s Continuing Education program in Brandon.
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