This is the week. We at DavidRosengarten.com have been inching towards it for over a year…and now…we are officially launching our DavidRosengarten.com wine portfolio, amazing wines for sale that I’ve selected all over the world! And we’re trying to launch with as big a bang as possible!
For starters, we are releasing The Wine Manifesto, A New Kind of Revolution, written by yours truly. It details the problems I see in wine-drinking in America today, and lays out MY territory: ten categories of wine that go brilliantly with food, but are not so easy to find in wine shops. I am trying to change that with my exclusive imports! For every category, you get an icon, a short name, and a description of the food it serves. I hope someday that readers will say “my oysters tonight need a Category 3 wine”…and then click in to buy one of the fabulous Category 3 wines I’ve started to import. So simple!
Here is a link to The Wine Manifesto (which also includes recipes to go with the wines).
This week has also been bristling with events. On Monday, Sept. 28 we held two events for trade and press at the wonderfully wine-oriented NYC restaurant Terroir (in Murray Hill). We had a focused tasting in the afternoon…
…and a wild bacchanal at night, with over 100 people eating fried chicken and participating in the karaoke contest.
THEN…a few winners of the contest got to come with me on a wine-launch barnstorm! On Saturday morning, Sept. 28. a private jet filled with my wine imports (and 8 press/trade people) took off from Teterboro, NJ en route to four major eating destinations in 36 hours…every feast accompanied by my wines!
We did:
- HUGE crabs in Baltimore at Costas for Saturday lunch (with Michel Gonet Champagne, of course)
- A three-venue Philly Cheesesteak crawl in Philly (ending at the exquisite Barclay Prime steakhouse, which serves the $100-a-sandwich wagyu/foie gras cheesesteak)
- Overnight Saturday at the sumptuous Rittenhouse Hotel in Philadelphia
- Overflowing platters of the best fried clam bellies in the world at The Clam Box in Ipswich, MA for Sunday lunch
- On to the chilly but sunset-lit coast of Maine for Sunday night’s farewell dinner, at the awesome Five Islands. Six dry Rieslings were in the glasses. I know you can guess what crawled right out of the water onto our plates!!!
You’ll be seeing some exciting video soon of this epic gastrovaganza, and lots of stepped-up activity around my new wine imports. I hate to brag…but these wines are so good! They really do the job that wine is supposed to do: go effortlessly, seamlessly, deliciously with food!
