We couldn’t be more excited about the roster of excellent wines and and personalities we have assembled for this winter’s wine festival, presented in the luxury and comfort of the historic Wentworth by the Sea Hotel. This will be our 19th year bringing together the superb cuisine of the Wentworth’s culinary team with winery representatives and their premium wines from around the globe amid the polished hospitality of our service staff in this grand setting on a little island, off the coast of New Hampshire.

From multi-course Grand Vintner’s Dinners to Big Tastings of Flight Nights to Bubbles and Jazz Brunches, the common thread running throughout is excellence. Please join us for a month of celebrating these masters of their craft and the inspiration they bring us.

Schedule:

Friday, January 20, 2023

6pm - 8:30pm: The Big Tastings

The Big Tasting in the ballroom is nothing less than a playground for food and wine lovers.

Guests will be able to choose from a vast array of wines in this walk-around event with numerous wine and food stations. Live Jazz with recording artist Chris Klaxton.

$69.95 per person, 20% service charge and 8.5% tax

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Friday, February 10, 2023

6pm - 8:30pm: The Big Tastings

The Big Tasting in the ballroom is nothing less than a playground for food and wine lovers.

Guests will be able to choose from a vast array of wines in this walk-around event with numerous wine and food stations. Live Jazz with recording artist Chris Klaxton.

$69.95 per person, 20% service charge and 8.5% tax

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Grand Vintner’s Dinners

Bringing The Winemaker’s Experience Closer

Reception: 6pm
4-Course Dinner: 7pm

The Grand Vintner’s dinners, now a winter wine festival tradition, fully express the marriage of food and wine. These four-course dinners bring guests closer to the winemaking experience. Each dinner starts with a wine reception with our guest host and passed hors d’oeuvres. Wentworth by the Sea’s Executive Chef, Lee Michael, presents a carefully selected menu to enhance each wine.

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Grand Vintner’s Dinner Featuring Cakebread Cellars With Barrett Hamilton

Reception 6pm, 4-Course Dinner at 7pm

Barrett attended Phillips Academy in Andover, as well as Columbia University in NY, where he studied Film and German Literature. Working in restaurants during his college tenure, Barrett fell in love with wine, becoming a certified sommelier, and then taking over as the regional beverage director for China Grill Management in NYC.

He currently works for Kobrand Fine Wines and Spirits as a Regional Manager here in New England, representing some of the best wineries from around the world. On his path to an eventual [hopeful] Master of Wine, he is currently studying to receive his Diploma in Wines and Spirits Education Trust, and is already a Certified Specialist in Wine

$189.95 per person plus 20% service charge and 8.5% tax

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Saturday, January 28, 2023

Grand Vintner’s Dinner - Spire Collection Dinner With Tom Gannon

Reception 6pm, 4-Course Dinner at 7pm

Tom Gannon started in the wine business as a bartender. After studying Theatre at Miami University in Ohio and having two plays published, he moved to New York City to continue writing and soaking up the city. He figured he might be behind the bar awhile and began taking wine classes out of a desire to match his knowledge with the wines he was tasting as the head bartender at Fleur de Sel. Those classes through the American Sommelier Association at Windows on the World in 2001 led to his first sommelier job at Rothmann’s Steakhouse in midtown Manhattan. After nine incredible years he left Rothmann’s in 2011 and began working for the Spire Collection, the high end portfolio of Jackson Family Wines with a unique region- NY, NJ, NH, ME and TN as he lives both in NYC and in Nashville, TN. Tom is the consulting sommelier for Tiro a Segno, the private Italian gun club in Greenwich Village, a Chevalier of the Confereie des Cheveliers des Tastevins Albany Chapter, co-founder of Toga Party Racing Stables in Saratoga Springs, and a trustee of Nashville’s Whiskey House. He has his Advanced Certificate from the Court of Master Sommeliers.

$169.95 per person, plus 20% service charge and 8.5% tax.

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Saturday, February 4, 2023

Grand Vintner’s Dinner - Coppola Dinner With Andrea Card

Reception 6pm, 4-Course Dinner at 7pm

Andrea Card is the Senior Winemaker at Francis Ford Coppola Winery and works with all wine programs that we offer. She is a fourth generation Sonoma County native with roots of wine dating back before Prohibition, when her great grandparents grew Petite Sirah and Carignane in the Alexander Valley. She started her winemaking career over 20 years ago at a Biodynamic winery and vineyard securing her fascination with plants, wine, and the processes behind it all. She is an avid competitor in Logging Sports, a sport derived from the traditional work in the woods such as log chopping, throwing axes and cross-cut sawing. When not competing throughout the country and Australia as a member of the US Women’s Team, she can be found on the lake water skiing, rafting, and enjoying time with family, friends, and pets.

$129.95 per person, plus 20% service charge and 8.5% tax.

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Saturday, February 11, 2023

Grand Vintner’s Dinner Featuring Beni Di Batasiolo Vineyards With Richardo March

Reception 6pm, 4-Course Dinner at 7pm

Ricardo March has pursued his passion for wine for more than two decades while establishing himself as one of the preeminent professionals in the world of wine and spirits sales and marketing. March graduated from the University of Barcelona with a degree in Business Administration and Management and then went on to earn a Master of International Business from Florida International University before pursuing the challenges of the wine and food industry in a business setting. As a new wine and spirits manager, he excelled at marketing, sales, and customer relations, more than tripling his employer’s sales volume in two years’ time. He then became a territory manager with another company and successfully took his territory to number one in sales in a year. Since 2000, March has applied his formidable talents to Batasiolo as Vice President for North America and has established a successful business presence in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. He travels the world attending major trade events promoting the brands he represents and shares his enthusiasm for wine and the competitive international wine industry. March is an experienced sommelier, certified by the European School for Sommeliers, and is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, and French.

$129.95 per person, plus 20% service charge and 8.5% Tax.

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Bubbles and Jazz Brunch

Sundays: 10am-2pm

For over a decade now the best motivation for getting out of bed on Sunday has been the spectacular Bubbles and Jazz Brunch at the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel. This great tradition continues during the Festival–but with a special feature. High-scoring, premium sparkling wines from around the world are poured, helping you to linger over your sumptuous meal.

Calendar of Bubbles and Jazz:

January 22: CUPCAKE, Prosecco, Italy

January 29: CHLOE, Prosecco, Italy

February 5: COPPOLA, Prosecco, Italy

February 12: LUNETTA, Prosecco, Italy

$69.95 per person, plus 20% service charge and 8.5% tax.

Call To Reserve - 603.422.7322

Date: January 20 - February 12, 2023

Location: Wentworth by the Sea Marriott Hotel and Spa, 588 Wentworth Road
New Castle, NH 03854.

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