The 14th version
of World of Pinot Noir has announced its plans for Friday/Saturday, February 28
& March 1, 2014. The really-really
big news is a move to Pinot popular Santa Barbara. Next year's celebration will
be held at the Bacara Resort & Spa. Ticket packages went
on-sale Monday, July 1st at www.wopn.com. Details on individual event tickets are there as well and be
available in early Fall.
Pinot Noir producers from the most exceptional and unique regions
in the world come together with Pinot pals for a weekend of celebration and
education. Past WOPN weekends have seen 2,000 guests attend educational,
culinary and tasting events. Pinot Noir bottlings from more than 150 wineries,
including Burgundy as well as California and Oregon, New Zealand and Austria, Australia
& Chile, Switzerland and even New York.
Friday will feature a pair of seminars, a tasting from producers
small and large and wine regions near and far, and a pair of winemaker dinners
created by Executive Chef David Reardon. Saturday's schedule includes the
popular Burgundy seminar/tasting, the World of Pinot Grand Tasting of over 100
wineries, the Gala Dinner and a featured winery dinner in the Miro Restaurant
Wine Cellar.
For details about Bacara Resort & Spa, nestled on the bluff
and beaches of the Santa Barbara coast between the Pacific Ocean and Santa Ynez
Mountains, check their site www.bacararesort.com. It is a lovely property and
offers a high end experience that includes golf packages with three local
courses. Since I was involved with opening the course and the menu still offers
things I named back in the day, I suggest the Santa Ynez Valley's Rancho San Marcos. On the actual wine
trail, it is not an ocean view experience but located on a land grant from 1804
and now owned by the man who made Beanie Babies a multi-million dollar
household word. It is a wonderful and often quirky test, well worth the visit.
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