Upcoming wine festival highlights February 23, 2016
Posted by jwdineline in Events, Home, Savor The Flavor with Jim White.Tags: Austin Food and Wine Festival, Buffalo Gap Wine and Food Summit, Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, Nantucket Wine Festival, Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival, Savor Dallas, Sonoma Valley, South Beach Wine and Food Festival, Taste of Sonoma Valley, VinoLivo, wine tasting techniques
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Food and wine festival season is off and running.
Here’s a brief rundown of some outstanding events coming up both near and far:
South Beach Wine and Food Festival happens this weekend in Miami. It’s a throw down, and lots of fun in the sun. Get details at their website.
If you’re jaunting to Northern California this weekend, make time for VinoLivo featuring Sonoma Valley wineries and chefs.
The sublime Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival gets underway March 31st. For tickets visit the website.
The 12th Annual Savor Dallas is April 7-10, with great foodie tastings in the Dallas Arts District and Fair Park. Get a special preview taste on March 30th when you can Savor the Arboretum.
The Austin Food and Wine Festival returns April 22nd through the 24th, featuring celebrity chefs, cooking demos, and more.
That same weekend, the 12th annual Buffalo Gap Wine and Food Summit convenes, with Stephan Pyles hosting a dinner featuring his protégées Matt Mcallister, Tim Byres, Mark Kiffin and Katherine Clapner. Tickets go fast.
May 18-22 the Nantucket Wine Festival. For information visit the website.
The Food and Wine Classic in Aspen is June 17-19. It’s the Granddaddy of festivals and worth the trip. We’ve been 9 times! Get details online. Hurry, many of the star chef cooking demos sell out quickly.
And, mark your calendar now for Taste of Sonoma Valley, Labor Day weekend, Saturday September 3rd. The event brings together more than 200 of Sonoma’s top winemakers and growers, along with a collection of the area’s best chefs. It takes place on the stunning MacMurray Estate Vineyards, Healdsburg, in the heart of the Russian River Valley Appellation. Visit the website for details.
Remember the all important “6 S’s of Winetasting”: Sight, Swirl, Sniff, Sip, Savor and Spit. That last one may be the most important for your well being and enjoyment when hundreds of wines are available to sample.
A votre santé! And, cheers!
Wining and Dining with Jim White March 20, 2011
Posted by jwdineline in Events, Home, Savor The Flavor with Jim White.Tags: Buffalo Gap Wine and Food Summit, Dr. Richard Becker, Fess Parker, Jacques Pépin, Lisa Perini, Perini Ranch Steakhouse, Tom Perini
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Rhone on the Range
What could be better than lunch with Jacques Pépin, Dinner with Stephan Pyles and “Cowboys, Cuisine and Cabernet”? Sounds like a job for the 7th Annual Buffalo Gap Wine and Food Summit April 15-17, in beautiful Buffalo Gap, Texas right outside Abilene.
The event was founded by Cowboy Chef Tom Perini (former Savor Dallas “Lone Star Award” Winner) the late Fess Parker of Fess Parker Winery & Vineyards, and Dr. Richard Becker of Becker Vineyards as a non-profit organization to cultivate the appreciation of fine wine and food through education and industry discussion.
It’s a fun event. Imagine great food and wine, outside under the live oaks and a big ol’ starry West Texas night sky as the backdrop, and you’ve got the picture of the setting for Buffalo Gap Wine and Food Summit, hosted on the ground of Perini
Jacques Pépin
Ranch Steakhouse.
Very special guest Celebrity Chef Jacques Pepin will host a special cooking demonstration. Looks like the popular Stephan Pyles dinner is sold out, but you never know Lisa Perini might make more room for you. Ol’ Tom justs need to bust out a few fence posts and add another table or two. Visit the website for complete details on the event. Please call for tickets: 1-800-367-1721 or 325-572-3339. Monday-Friday 8:30am – 5:00pm
Savor the Flavor with Jim White, The Wining and Dining Guy June 14, 2010
Posted by jwdineline in Home, Savor The Flavor with Jim White.Tags: Boi Na Braza, Buffalo Gap Wine and Food Summit, Charlie Palmer at the Joule, Father's Day dining, Gourmet Magazine, Jim White, Morris Salerno, Perini Ranch Steakhouse, Rafain Brazilian Steakhouse, Salerno's Italian Restaurant, Savor Dallas, Texas Cowboy Cooking, The Grotto
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“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a Dad.”
Not sure to whom goes attribution on that salient message. It hits home, though, no matter who first said the words. Father’s Day, June 20th, is getting first-class treatment in some top establishments. Here is an interesting, 
but by no means definitive listing. We’ll add more as we receive them.
Charlie Palmer at the Joule is doing some tasty sounding pairings made with and paired with beer. What could be better than a beer and a Brat (as in Bratwurst)? Bratwurst and braised white beans highlights the appetizers section on the full Dad’s Day menu offered below:
Appetizer Specials
BEEF TARTARE
HERB AIOLI / CELERY CROSTINI
SHINER BOCK BRATWURST
BRAISED WHITE BEANS
Entree Specials
ALASKAN KING CRAB
PAULANER MUSTARD PAN SAUCE
KUROBUTA PORK CHOP
BLACK PEPPER SPAETZLE / FAT TIRE GLAZE
Dessert Specials
GUINNESS CHOCOLATE STOUT
GUINNESS ICE CREAM/ DARK CHOCOLATE CAKE
Featured beer: Estrella Damm 750 L
Charlie Palmer at The Joule
1530 Main Street
Dallas, TX 75201, Tel: 214.261.4600
Rafain Brazilian Steakhouse is offering a “Dad deserves more than one steak” promotion. Of course, their menu features the multitude of great Churrascaria style meats, as well as pork and chicken treats and the salad bar that goes on for days. They are featuring a lunch special for $35 and a dinner special on the sumptuous spread for $32 (not valid with gift certificates or other offers). Limited seating, so call for reservations: 972-733-1110.
Rafain Brazilian Steakhouse
18010 N. Dallas Parkway
Dallas, TX 75287
Similar treatment, and equally tasty Churrascaria, is available in Grapevine at Boi Na Braza for $37.99 on Father’s Day.
Boi Na Braza
4025 William D. Tate
Grapevine, Texas 76051, 817-251-9881
Master Chef Morris Salerno knows how to make fancy cookin’ taste down home and dazzling all at the same time. His ever popular The Grotto Restaurant in Highland Village is offering a prime peppered New York Strip with a brandy cream sauce served with asparagus and cottage fries that is making my mouth water just thinking about it! It’s $22.50 and just one of the Father’s Day specials at the restaurant.
The Grotto
2300 Highland Village Road, Suite 500
Highland Village, TX 75077
Call 972-318-0515
Or, if dad is into Italian, take him to family style Salerno’s in Flower Mound. One of their Father’s Day specials is a 10 ounce tenderloin with sauteed mushrooms in a Burgundy sauce with veggies and a baked potato for $28.95.
Salerno’s Italian Restaurant
3407 Long Prairie Road
Flower Mound, TX 75077
972-539-9534
Regular menu available at both locations on Father’s Day.
If Dad is a “Beef! It’s what’s for dinner!” at home kinda guy…
Then, the godfather of Texas Cowboy Cookin’, Tom Perini, from 
Perini Ranch in Buffalo Gap has a solution: his enormously popular mesquite smoked peppered beef tenderloin. They’ll deliver dinner to dad’s doorstep. All you have to do is supply the fixin’s and his beverage of choice. This product won the Fancy Foods “best of show” category about 15 years ago in New York and put Perini’s on the map. People all over the world order this tenderloin like it’s going out of style (it isn’t, thankfully). Tom was chuckwagon choice for the Bush W. White House. His cookbook “Texas Cowboy Cooking” (with forward by Robert Duvall) is a perennial best seller. He’s been honored at “Savor Dallas” with the Lone Star “Culinary Award” in 2006. All the accolades aside, it’s damn good beef. Check it out online or by phone at the link above, or for the real deal in person: Visit Perini Ranch Steakhouse in Buffalo Gap. Named one of America’s “Best Rural Restaurants” by Gourmet Magazine in 2004. The popular establishment is only about 3 hours west of DFW outside of Abilene. They’ll bring you all the good peppered tenderloin you want, plus a full menu of steaks and other great entrées. Plus great country side dishes 
like Green Chile Hominy, Cowboy Potatoes and Zucchini Perini. Dine on a working cattle ranch and enjoy a taste of the real West at Perini Ranch. They even throw a big city style wine and food event every April called the Buffalo Gap Wine and Food Summit. Big names in the industry and lots of hungry, thirsty folks make the annual trek. We’ve been a few times ourselves. It’s the best way to have oak with your wine, as the late, great Fess Parker used to say. Outside under the stars sippin’ wine under the Live Oaks at Perini Ranch.
Wining and dining events on the way April 6, 2010
Posted by jwdineline in Events, Home, Savor The Flavor with Jim White.Tags: Big Daddy's Fine Wine and Spirits, Buffalo Gap Wine and Food Summit, Centennial Fine Wine and Spirits, Dali Wine Bar and Restaurant, Dallas Restaurant Group Concepts, Dallas Wine and Food Festival, John Tesar, Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival, New World Wine and Food Festival, One Arts Plaza, Savor Dallas Wine and Food Festival, Scott Gottlich, Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival, The Second Floor Restaurant
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We have another FREE wine tasting event coming up for you!
Join us Friday April 16th, at Centennial’s “brother” store: Big Daddy’s Fine Wine and Spirits at 1613 West Northwest Highway, near Luna Road, for a tasting of some great wines between 4 and 7 p.m. We’ll taste-through the 20 Gauge Chardonnay, Pikes “The Red Mullet” Australian Red, Chateau Potensac Medoc Bordeaux 2002, enjoy a delightful Ricossa Moscato d’Asti. It’s a special FREE event from “The Dinner Club” with Jim White. We look forward to seeing you there. Bring your friends. Click here for directions to the location. (more…)
