Please The Palate Newsletter October 2018

Written by Allison Levine on October 2, 2018

Travel Lifestyle Food Cocktails Wine

As the year continues to rush by, I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing summer! Now that we are entering Fall, event season starts to pick up and Please The Palate is looking forward to a non-stop couple of months.

Summer was busy for Please The Palate. While I did not travel internationally, I made numerous trips to Napa Valley for various events, such as Festival Napa Valley, a lovely classical music festival, and wrote some stories about where to eat, drink and sleep in Napa. I also judged my first wine competition, the Central Coast Wine Competition, which was a great learning experience. I continued to try to new restaurants in between all of the travel. And, I was in New York, Chicago, Washington DC and Dallas for the Gelato Festival America.

As I look forward to the coming months, I continue to work on the Gelato Festival with three more cities to go! Gelato has been a departure from wine but it has been so much fun and quite tasty! Lots of trade events are coming up across the country as well. Madeira Wines is coming to San Francisco and Seattle, Wines of Setubal is heading to Houston and Miami and DoctorWine will return to San Francisco and Los Angeles in November for the Essential Guide to Italian Wine 2018 book launch and wine tasting. All trade events, and consumer events, can be found at www.pleasethepalate.com/events.

I am also excited to announce that I am now the American host of the podcast Wine Soundtrack! Established in Italy in 2017, Wine Soundtrack shares the stories of winemakers and winery owners. The American version will be launching this Fall!

Upcoming Events

The Many Faces of Madeira Masterclass & Food Pairing
Featuring Rubina Vieira, Madeira Wine Institute
Sunday, October 14
5:00-7:00pm
San Francisco Wine School
$95pp

Gelato Festival America 2018
The Gelato Festival, the most important event dedicated to artisanal Italian gelato continues its tour across America. First stops were New Jersey, Chicago, Washington DC and Dallas and there are still three more cities! The Gelato Festival brings goodness, joy, experience and culture to America.

Purchase your ticket and you can taste all the flavors in the competition as well as other special flavors (as much as you want), attend the courses and play games in the delicious Gelato Village. You can also vote for your favorite flavor!

Use the code PLEASETHEPALATE to save $5.

October 13-14 Santa Barbara
La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S Hope Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105

October 20-21 Scottsdale
Kierland Commons, 15205 N Kierland Blvd Suite 150, Scottsdale, AZ 85254

October 27-28 Tucson
La Encantada, 2905 E Skyline Dr, Tucson, AZ 85718

Check out www.pleasethepalate.com for upcoming events and if you want to be notified of blog posts when they go live, please sign up on our site, here.

Read the full October 2018 Newsletter.

Please The Palate Newsletter July 2018

Written by Allison Levine on July 5, 2018

Travel Lifestyle Food Cocktails Wine

Summer is officially here and with that comes the 7th anniversary of Please The Palate! Seven years have literally flown by and this past Spring was no exception. I spent most of the past three months on the road with trips that took me to Chile, Croatia and Italy, as well as trips to Napa, Paso Robles and Santa Barbara. I have so many stories to share! Some of the stories are below and there are more to come!

This past month I was also invited to judge my first wine competition, the Central Coast Wine Competition in Paso Robles. It was a really fun experience but afterwards it took a lot of brushing my teeth to get them back to white.

I am also excited to announce that I am working with the Gelato Festival America 2018 which returns this year and will be coming to eight cities around the country! I am looking forward to eating lots and lots of gelato! I will be managing the Gelato School so be sure to come say hi! I am excited to offer you a $5 discount on tickets with the promo code PLEASETHEPALATE so save the date and tell your friends!

Also, there is a Kids Jury that takes place at the Gelato Festival. So, if you have a child between 2 and 12 years of age who you think would like to be a judge, please send me an email.

Upcoming Events

Calistoga Uncorked Tasting
at the Presidio, San Francisco
July 12th, 4:00-7:30pm
Cost $75

Calistoga winemakers and owners from 30 wineries are bringing the Top of Napa Valley down to San Francisco for an opportunity to taste and purchase hard to find Calistoga AVA wines. Most of the wineries that will be pouring are not open to the public so this is your chance to discover them at the picturesque Golden Gate Club in the Presidio on July 12. Light bites will be served to complement the outstanding wines.

Gelato Festival America 2018
The Gelato Festival, the most important event dedicated to artisanal Italian gelato, is coming to America. After traveling through Italy and Europe, the Gelato Festival brings goodness, joy, experience and culture to America. From city to city, award-winning chefs, gelato masters and prestigous gelato companies will share the fantastic world of artisanal Italian gelato.

Purchase your ticket and you can taste all the flavors in the competition as well as other special flavors, attend the courses and play games in the delicious Gelato Village. You can also vote for your favorite flavor! Use the code PLEASETHEPALATE to save $5.

August 11-12 Jersey City
Liberty State Park, 200 Morris Pesin Dr, Jersey City, NJ 07305

August 18-19 Boulder
Twenty Ninth Street, 1710 29th St, Boulder, CO 80301

August 25-26 Chicago
Chicago Premium Outlets, 1650 Premium Outlet Blvd , Aurora, IL 60502

September 8-9 Washington DC
City Market at O, 800 P St NW, Washington, DC 20001

September 22-23 Los Angeles
TBD

September 29-30 Dallas
Dallas Farmers Market, 920 S Harwood St, Dallas, TX 75201

October 20-21 Scottsdale
Kierland Commons, 15205 N Kierland Blvd Suite 150, Scottsdale, AZ 85254

October 27-28 Tucson
La Encantada, 2905 E Skyline Dr, Tucson, AZ 85718

Check out www.pleasethepalate.com for upcoming events and if you want to be notified of blog posts when they go live, please sign up on our site, here.

Read the full July 2018 Newsletter.

Please The Palate Newsletter April 2018

Written by Allison Levine on April 5, 2018

Travel Lifestyle Cocktails Wine

Spring is here! Well, after the snow storms on the East Coast and rain storms on the West Coast, hopefully it is time for the flowers to bloom and the sun to shine! The first quarter of 2018 has flown by with restaurant openings, winemaker meetings, winery region visits, wine events and multiple airplane rides! Now, with Spring comes longer days and lots of great happenings!

Upcoming Events

Pebble Beach Food & Wine (April 5-8)
Pebble Beach Food & Wine is the premier epicurean lifestyle event on the West Coast, matching 250 acclaimed wineries and 100 celebrity chefs to create a hedonistic four-day destination on one of the most picturesque strips of coastline in the world. Throughout the weekend you’ll enjoy intimate access to the pinnacle of culinary and wine talent at wine tastings, cooking demos, and some of the most exclusive, unique dining opportunities available in the world.

Oregon Wine Trail Los Angeles (April 24)
We’re hitting the trail with 50 Oregon wineries and our friends at Olympia Provisions, Salt & Straw Ice Cream and Stumptown Coffee Roasters for a grand happening of Oregonian wine, food and personality. No white table cloths, no orange cheese cubes. Instead, a generous pour of Oregon’s fine wines and pioneering spirit.

Vintage Hollywood (June 9)
Vintage Hollywood is an intimate outdoor event attended that showcases an exclusive group of wineries and features food from some of the area’s top restaurants. The beneficiary for the 2018 Vintage Hollywood event is one of Los Angeles County’s largest social services agencies, The People Concern, which was formed in 2016 in a merger of two trusted social service organizations based in Los Angeles – OPCC and Lamp Community. Informed by more than fifty years of work in the community, The People Concern empowers the most vulnerable among us to rebuild their lives.

Check out www.pleasethepalate.com for upcoming events and if you want to be notified of blog posts when they go live, please sign up on our site, here.

Read the full April 2018 Newsletter.