Red White Boston is co-sponsoring tonight's New Zealand wine tasting at the Boston Center for Adult Education.There will be fifteen wines. All are very indicative of that lovely place. All will be presented in a casual, get-to-know-our-personality kind of way.
Tickets to the event have been sold out for days now.
Except for two last-minute ones that we held back, just to give away to a RWB reader today.
Here's how to get your hands on them: tell us, in 150 words or less, what you think would be the most fun and helpful format for a wine tasting.
Think outside the box. There's got to be a better way than shuffling around a big room, glass outstretched, fumbling with papers and lists, with little connection between what you taste and what you really remember.
That's why we're experimenting with the "speed dating" format tonight. The idea is to spend a few minutes with each major New Zealand grape varietal, hearing their stories, tasting one by one, deciding which ones strike your fancy, and which ones you should definitely steer clear of.
Because if wine information -- fleeting as it sometimes seems to your memory -- means something to you personally, it's way more likely to stick in your head.
That's our idea. What's yours?
Before noon today, email us your best idea for a fun, helpful wine tasting. (Winner only will be notified by 1:30 p.m.)
It may well get you a free pass to tonight's event, plus a front-row seat to your idea made real.
WHAT: Win two tickets to "Speed Dating" with New Zealand Wines
WHEN: Tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Boston Center for Adult Education, 122 Arlington Street, Boston
HOW: Tell us in 150 words or less what what you think would be the most fun and helpful format for a wine tasting. Deadline is noon (today, obviously), and winner will be notified by 1:30 p.m.
COST: $0
DAILY TIDBIT:
Your response to yesterday's contest -- to tell us your top three choices for new partners for Red White Boston -- was overwhelming, and humbling really. We have our marching orders, that's for sure! We'll be reaching out personally to each of your suggestions, and hope to offer you very soon a selection of new wine experiences from all over town. We can't thank you enough for your help and advice. Stay tuned to see how it all works out!
