Wine Tasting Rooms Make Groundbreaking Additions: Chefs, Food, Chairs and Service; Sonoma's Mayo Family Winery Expands Revolutionary Tasting Room Experience to Second Location.HEALDSBURG, Calif. -- Imagine a wine tasting Noun 1. wine tasting - a gathering of people to taste and compare different wines assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one place wine tasting n → degustación f de vinos room where one sits rather than stands, chews as well as sips, and all while experiencing a seven-course, chef-prepared food and wine tasting menu for only $20. Sonoma Valley-based Mayo Family Mayo family Family of U.S. physicians. William Worrall Mayo (b. May 31, 1819, near Manchester, Eng.—d. March 6, 1911, Rochester, Minn., U.S.) came to the U.S. in 1845. He opened a surgical practice in Rochester, Minn., in 1863, and in 1889 he opened St. Winery's is the creator of the groundbreaking tasting room concept that brings chairs, a chef and service to the normally staid staid adj. 1. Characterized by sedate dignity and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; sober. See Synonyms at serious. 2. wine tasting room. On February 11, Jeff Mayo Jeff Mayo (October 7, 1921, 8:00 AM GMT, London - April 17, 1998,9:10 AM BST, Barnstaple) was an English astrologer, astrology teacher, and astrology writer. In 1973, Mayo founded the Mayo School of Astrology, which after his death has operated from Truro, Cornwall. will open his second such "Reserve Room" in the Sonoma County wine country town of Healdsburg. "It's hard to believe but the idea of offering wine country visitors the experience of sampling sumptuous, chef-prepared foods in a wine tasting room environment hasn't really been offered to this point," explains Jeff Mayo, president of Mayo Family Winery win·er·y n. pl. win·er·ies An establishment at which wine is made. Noun 1. winery - distillery where wine is made wine maker . "AN AWESOME EXPERIENCE" Mayo Family Winery's first Reserve Room appeared less than a year ago in Sonoma Valley Sonoma Valley is the birthplace of the California wine industry and often called The Valley of the Moon. Sonoma Valley is home to some of the earliest vineyards and wineries in the state, some of which survived the phylloxera epidemic of the 1870s and the impact of . Initially, visitors didn't know what to think when presented with a $20 tasting room fee. However, after seven wines appeared in succession, each with its own food pairing, the idea started to catch on and word spread. Tables in the Reserve Room filled after the Wall Street Journal came calling and proclaimed it "An awesome experience" and "the best deal in Wine Country." The new Reserve Room Healdsburg will feature a menu prepared and executed by nearby ZIN Zin, in the Bible, wilderness through which the Israelites wandered, SW of the Dead Sea. Restaurant chef Jeff Mall. Among the seven pairings on the Debut Menu are: DUNGENESS CRAB, AVOCADO & MANGO TANGO 2004 Chardonnay, Laurel Hill Vineyard, Sonoma Valley, "Estate Bottled" MEYER LEMON & GOAT CHEESE MOUSE WITH HOUSE CRACKERS 2004 Viognier, Sunny View Vineyard, Russian River Valley, "Henry's Cuvee" ROASTED BEET & FENNEL "FIDDLE STICKS" 2004 Pinot Noir, Darien Vineyard, Russian River Valley, "Gary's Block" BRAISED LAMB WITH OIL CURED OLIVES AND CRISPY POLENTA 2004 Petite Sirah Sodini Vineyard, Russian River Valley, "Old Vine" GRILLED HANGER STEAK "CAESAR" ON GARLIC CROUTON 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon, Random Ridge Vineyard, Napa Valley "We want to offer our quests complete epicurean immersion as well as something unique," adds Mayo. "This is the kind of experience visitors to Wine Country look for." The Reserve Room Healdsburg (707-433-9400) is located at 340 Center Street and is open Thursday to Monday, 10:30am to 6:30pm. |
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