7 pm, Friday, October 8, 2010
The Fort Worth Club
306 West Seventh Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102 (Directions)
The Fête du Vin Wine Dinner and Auction is an annual event established in 2007, to benefit the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT). Held in the fall, the Fête is a signature black-tie affair where guests can enjoy a festive evening featuring fine wines, haute cuisine, and silent and live auctions. Unique to the event, guests are invited to bring their favorite wines to share and compare.
The Fête highlights the natural connection between botany and wine making. Botanists have always played a vital role in the cultivation of the world’s vineyards; in fact, botanist T.V. Munson from East Texas is credited for saving the French wine industry.
International Award of Excellence in Sustainable Winegrowing
BRIT has established the International Award of Excellence in Sustainable Winegrowing, which will be presented at the Fête. The award seeks to honor wineries and vineyards that have demonstrated a commitment to sustainability in both viticulture (winegrowing) and viniculture (winemaking). Criteria for the award is based on the winery or vineyard that most reflects BRIT’s core principles of conservation, sustainability, and wise stewardship of the land. Through the award, BRIT hopes to inspire others to become involved in sustainable design and practice.
For more information, please contact Regan Haggerty by email or call directly at 817-332-2748.
BRIT Wine Dinner to Feature Large Bottles
The Fort Worth Club will be the place to be on October 8, 2010 when The Botanic Research Institute of Texas (“BRIT”) holds its Fete du Vin. The annual auction and wine dinner features several new enticements, including for wine lovers the opportunity to bid on wine in large bottle formats from perhaps the foremost, and certainly the most storied, red wine region in the world, Bordeaux, France.
This year the event’s silent auction will be studded with magnums (the equivalent of two regular bottles), double magnums (the equivalent of four regular bottles), and imperials (the equivalent of eight regular bottles) from outstanding chateaux, including the legendary Chateau Mouton Rothschild, one of only five Premier Cru estates in the Medoc region of Bordeaux.
Other offerings will include bottles from the historic Chateau Talbot, one of the leading wine estates in the St. Julian commune in the Medoc and Chateau Prieuré Lichine from the Margaux commune in the same region.
All of the big bottles to be offered at auction have received outstanding ratings from the likes of Robert Parker, the Wine Spectator, and the Wine Advocate, and have aged in the bottle long enough to be drunk immediately, although all are collectibles that will continue to evolve and be drinkable for decades.
For more information, please contact Regan Haggerty by email.
