This year, the theme of the
High Museum Atlanta Wine
Auction celebrates generations of both winemaking and auction families
during “Legends of the Vine” wine week, March 26-29. The annual auction is the
sixth-largest charity wine auction in the U.S. Guest winemakers and Atlanta’s
top chefs cook throughout Atlanta on Wednesday, March 26, to participate in
multi-course winemaker dinners with wine pairings at host homes. Aqua blue, Aria, Chicken and the Egg, No. 246 and Table 1280 are all
taking part in various auction-related events. Tip for next year’s timeline:
buy your tickets early. This year’s winemaker dinners and Saturday night’s vintners’
reception and live auction are sold out!
Dinners, tastings and seminars frame this week's 21stHigh Museum Wine Auction. Capping the week is the magnum event of them all, this Saturday'sVintners' Receptionand live auction. Many of the world's top wineries will be appreciated by wine aficionados sampling generous pours. Dozens of Atlanta's best restaurants -- includingChicken and the Egg, Seven Lamps and Aqua blue-- will be there with choice morsels from their mouth-watering menus. Tickets to both of these events are only available to High Museum Benefactors. Find out how that could be you by calling 404-733-4543.
Lucky are those High Museum of Art supporters holding tickets to the
sold-out 20th Annual Vintners’ Reception and Live Auction
on Saturday, March 31. They’ll be able to dabble in a delicious palette of
dishes prepared by chefs from Atlanta’s best restaurants while tasting wines
from scores of top wineries. Then the bidding begins on everything from rare
and collectible wine, dreamy trips, fine art and other one-of-a-kind finds.
Marietta’s Chicken and the Egg, Spice Market in the W
Atlanta-Midtown, Double Zero Napoletana in Sandy Springs and Aqua blue in Roswell will all be there.
If you’re going, be sure to stop by their tables!
This year's High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction is dubbed "The Ultimate Collection," and after 19 years of successful wine auctions, you know you can't go wrong with this event. We can certainly promise tremendous food, art, wine and auction opportunities. Restaurants participating in this year's four-day fete (March 23 - 26) include Aria, La Tavola Trattoria, Pacci Ristorante, South City Kitchen Midtown and Vinings, Spice Market, Aqua blue and Woodfire Grill. La Tavola Executive Chef Craig Richards will feature Cass Winery and Row Eleven with a prix fixe menu as the Virginia-Highland trattoria takes part in Wednesday night's Toast the Tastemakers Dine Around Dinner; call 404-873-5430 for reservations. For the entire schedule, visit "The Ultimate" website.
I’m afraid I’m developing quite an addiction for wine dinners – what’s not to love?
Perfectly paired dishes with exquisite wines and the chance to hear the actual winemaker tell about the soil, the weather, and all of the things that intricately help make this wine what it has become? Yes, please. It’s a pleasure to hear them speak because they love what they do and what they create. It’s educational AND delicious!
Since my first ever wine dinner experience at Pacci was so wonderful, I jumped at the opportunity to attend the Dine Around Dinner at Toulouse in Buckhead last night. It was a new event as part of the High Museum Wine Auction going on this weekend, and Toulouse created a seven course dinner based on the wines of two California wineries, Niner Wine Estates and Lancaster Estate, with a part of the proceeds going towards the High Museum.
We listened closely as reps from each winery filled us in about each wine as we went thru from course to course. Both reps went the extra mile by sitting down to chat with guests at different tables and answer any questions people had – what a great way to learn. I think I see a visit to California Wine Country in my future!
Because sometimes pictures speak louder than words, I’m sharing a slideshow of my photos from the evening. Follow along with the menu online if you wish! Every dish was delightful and I can’t wait to go back and try Toulouse again soon.
In case you haven't already heard, this weekend marks the 18th Annual High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction, one of the city's most popular events. From March 25 - 27, the nationally ranked wine auction will include several exciting food and wine events. If that doesn't have you revved up already, there is an extra element to this year's festivities: the March opening of The Allure of the Automobile exhibition at the High Museum of Art.
The custom-built schedule of activites includes events at The Cook's Warehouse - Midtown and The St. Regis Atlanta, winemaker dinners, wine seminars, the Beep Beep, Beep Beep, Yeah!: Vintners' Cup Golf Tournament at Eastlake Golf Club and the Vintners' Reception and Wine Auction under the tents at Atlantic Station on Saturday. Pacci Ristorante, Spice Market and Toulouse are Dine Around Dinner destinations on March 25. Aqua blue, Aria, JCT. Kitchen & Bar and Woodfire Grill also are participating in the weekend events.
