Wednesday 29 April 2009

Mariela Molinari

We were very lucky that Mariela Molinari, winemaker at the Catena Zapata winery (http://www.catenawines.com/eng/index.html) in Argentina, took time out of her busy schedule to visit us in Jersey last Friday to host a 'Winemakers Dinner' in Tassili at the Grand.

I had a great day with her visiting several restaurants, showing her around the Island and sitting having a great lunch outside at Green Island.

She couldn't have picked a better day to be here as the sun didn't stop shining and Jersey now has a lot to live up to when she returns, hopefully, in June.

The evening went very well at the Grand, a little noisy at times as they were extremely busy, but the food, wine and company were all excellent.

On the Saturday morning Mariela hosted a quick in-store tasting and in the few hours she was here her wines proved extremely popular with several of them selling out! (They are available online http://dunells.com/Product/ProductSearch.aspx?search=catena and in-store).

As mentioned above, I am hoping Mariela is going to return mid-June when we will organise another tasting and/or dinner somewhere.

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