For our winter Mondiale gathering on January 22, 2014, Vice Echanson Mike Monnin brought wines from the Great Northwest. In Oregon it all begins with “P” as in Pinot. This night featured the wines from A to Z Wineworks including Rex Hill, William Hatcher, and Francis Tannahill. A to Z was started as a partnership […]

I have to admit that I was a skeptic. “A beer and food pairing? No one in our wine loving bailliage will ever go for this,” I thought. Boy, was I wrong. Vice Echanson Michael Monnin and Bailli George Elliott were the masterminds behind this exquisite October evening. Mike and George had previously attended a […]

The gauntlet was thrown down, the challenge accepted, and the Dueling ‘Sommeliers’ Dinner was held June 12, 2013 for the Cincinnati Mondiale.  Our contenders at this Affair of Honor, two local wine experts Mary Horn and Rob Owens, made their perfect wine pairing choices for each of four fabulous courses prepared by Funky’s Catering. Forty […]

Capitalizing on the wine expertise and cooking talents of five local Cincinnati bailliage members, a wine pairing demonstration dinner was held at the home of yet another local member on April 20, 2013. Wine experts Mary Horn, Kathy Merchant, and Amy Neyer each chose two wines to pair with one of the three courses prepared […]

Our Vice Echanson Mike Monnin has been making an effort to have winemakers and winery representatives visit Cincinnati and show off their bottlings, so we felt fortunate when he arranged for Jeanne Cabral, National Sales Manager for Heitz Wine Cellars, to join us at the new event space in Heidelberg Distributing-Kentucky to moderate a retrospective […]