Stave & Slate

Private events

Personal or corporate. The wine does the introductions.

Corporate tasting events

Château Pontet-Canet courtyard from above

A tasting is the one team activity nobody has to be good at. Everyone has an opinion, and everyone is allowed to share it.

  • Client appreciationA room your best accounts remember.
  • Offsites and kickoffsSomething shared that is not a slide deck.
  • Awards and milestonesA toast with something worth toasting.
  • Leadership eventsWine as the common language at the table.
  • Holiday gatheringsPours for forty or for four hundred.

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Companies I’ve worked with

Personal events

A vineyard in winter, vines pruned and bare

Birthdays, anniversaries, a long-awaited reunion. I choose the wines around your people and the occasion.

  • Home tastingsA flight, a few stories and your own kitchen table.
  • Wine dinnersPaired course by course with your menu or a chef’s.
  • Gifts and milestonesA tasting for someone who has everything except a good Barolo.

How an evening comes together.

  • BriefA short conversation about the people, the room and the budget.
  • FlightI build the wines and their order, with one story for each.
  • EveningI arrive early, pour, explain, and leave the room louder than I found it.

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