HOSTED BY CELEB CHEF & COOKBOOK AUTHOR BOB BLUMER AT HIS HOLLYWOOD HILLS HOME
Inspired by 2021’s exclusive ‘Friday-Eve Live’ event at Bob Blumer’s Hollywood Hills home, Blumer, the Lloyd Cellars team, and music partners A&R Worldwide have created an annual invite-only event that brings together the perfect trilogy of lux wine, culinary wizardry, and musical showcase against the stunning backdrop of the iconic Hollywood sign.
If you’re in the entertainment business, culinary world, or a member of the media, email us to request an invite to attend this private one-of-kind music and culinary mash-up!
Bob Blumer’s ‘Surreal Showcase’ was inspired by Prescription Vineyards 2021 ‘Friday-Eve Live’ event featuring artist Isra
There’s a reason the Tiburon Wine Festival is one of the Bay Area’s most popular wine events. The Wines Featuring wines from both established and small-production wineries, the Tiburon Wine festival provides a rare opportunity to experience new wines and savor old favorites. Taste wines from Napa, Sonoma, and as far afield as Italy and Hungary. The Food Great local restaurants and food purveyors! Woodlands Market, Luna Blu, Pizza Antica, Sam’s Anchor Cafe, Servino Ristorante, Tiburon Tavern, Chili Palace, Lolas Taqueria, and Three Sisters Artisanal Meats.
Point Tiburon Plaza
1701 Tiburon Blvd. Tiburon,
California
United States
Join Lloyd Cellars for a romantic evening of rare wine tasting that begins with a champagne reception at the Paséa Hotel & Spa Sapphire Ballroom.
This is an elegant VIP event for true fine wine lovers. The limited number of tickets sell out quickly (due to the rarity of the wines poured). A champagne reception is just the prelude to an evening of sampling hard-to-find trophy wines, some already out of circulation and impossible to find, are poured to an adoring crowd dressed in their finest casual/elegant resort wear.
Top regional chefs will serve hot and cold appetizers while live music keeps things cool. Paséa Hotel & Spa provides the perfect oceanfront destination for this night of fantastic wine and food.
Extremely limited reserve-level wines are matched with gourmet appetizers from top local chefs, artisan cheeses, fresh fruits, olive oils, and more, while live music keeps things super cool.
Join Lloyd Cellars for a romantic evening of rare wine tasting that begins with a champagne reception under the stars at Santa Barbara’s charming old-world Carousel House. Extremely limited reserve-level wines are matched with gourmet appetizers from top local chefs, artisan cheeses, fresh fruits, olive oils, and more, while live music keeps things super cool.
A SAN JOES INT’L SHORT FILM FESTIVAL VIP MIXER & TASTING
At Vintage Wine Merchants, Santana Row
377 Santana Row, Suite 1135
Prescription Vineyards is celebrating our multi-year sponsorship of the San Jose Int’l Short Film Festivaland our recent feature article in The Somm Journal magazine. The ‘Aerating the Sun’ story and interview with Winemaker Rob Lloyd highlight why our Chardonnay makes such an excellent wine for restaurant By-the-Glass (BTG) programs.
Issei also pairs our Prescription Vineyard’s Clarksburg Chardonnay with the kitchen’s ‘Mortadell-Burrata Pizza,’ so it seemed apropos to serve up hosted bites of this delicious pie during the event. To round out the experience, we’ll also share tastes of our Lloyd Cellars Carneros Chardonnay and Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir. The event will be a great opportunity to pre-stock your wine cellar for the upcoming holiday 2022 season!
Please email Joel@LloydCellars.com to RSVP for Saturday’s complimentary wine tasting!
Vintage Wine Merchants, 377 Santana Row, Suite 1135
377 Santana Row, Suite 1135 San Jose,
California
95128(408) 260-1115 View Venue Website
Our good friend, Chef and Photographer Gina Garbero, is at it again, developing delicious and quick recipes to pair with our Lloyd Cellars wines. This time she’s offered up a mouthwatering chicken and mushroom dish that integrates our Lloyd Cellars 2020 Carneros Chardonnay into the recipe, which truly enhances the pairing. Make sure to watch Gina’s quick video on preparation below the posted recipe while you sip a glass of Lloyd Cellars 2020 Carneros Chardonnay.
Prep your simple ingredients. Slice the mushrooms and garlic shoots then butterfly the chicken breast so it’s ¼ in thick. Use a meat tenderizer to flatten it so it’s even thickness everywhere. Season with salt and pepper then dredge the breast in cornstarch to give it an even coat.
In a hot skillet with olive oil and fry the chicken on both sides until it’s golden brown. Remove the chicken and set aside.
Add butter to the pan with your garlic shoots and mushrooms. When the mushrooms are browned, add a cup of Lloyd chardonnay. Simmer on medium until the sauce reduces by half.
Serve over the chicken garnished with micro greens. Enjoy with a glass of Lloyd Cellars Carneros Chardonnay.
The 2022 Chardonnay Classic is a weekend of indulgence curated by master sommeliers and acclaimed winemakers set in the beautiful Napa Valley. Lloyd Cellars will be pouring at the Grand Tasting on Saturday, May 21 from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm. The overall program features iconic wine country experiences, gourmet lunches, luxury dinners, and unique tastings.
In its second year, The Chardonnay Classic stands to be the preeminent Chardonnay-focused wine event of the year. Bringing together the world’s finest vintners in exclusive invite-only participation. We will showcase the immense variety and expression of a single varietal. From light & crisp to rich & oaky, still to sparkling – we gather together vintners, industry experts, and enthusiasts alike to celebrate the incredible range of Chardonnay!
The Chardonnay Classic gathers together winemakers, industry professionals, and enthusiasts alike to more fully learn and appreciate the vast intricacies and expressions of a simple and humble grape. With a focus on educational sessions, grand tastings, and expertly crafted experiential dinners; we create an environment that fosters both business relationships and deep friendships that promote lasting community amongst all involved in creating and enjoying every bottle of wine.
Set in the beautiful Napa Valley at sister properties Meritage Resort & Spa and Vista Collina Resort, guests will indulge in the art of crafted luxury – from exquisite meals to rare vintages; the Chardonnay Classic is an experience you will never forget!
Prescription Vineyards sponsored three major events at South Beach Wine & Food Festival to reach consumers and trade in February
Lloyd Cellars and Prescription Vineyards are honored to work with so many great partners across the United States, from our distributors to event producers and through traditional, digital, and social media channels. In 2021, we launched our first national ad campaigns with Wine Spectator, Hemispheres (United Airlines magazine), The Tasting Panel, The Somm Journal, Austin Monthly, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, iHeartRadio Central Florida, and San Antonio Current. 2022 will see our commitment to market support expand, with advertising and in-market visits that will include 30+ events in 17 cities.
National Advertising Campaigns
Our national ads are strategically placed to time with in-market events to drive awareness and visitation to our tasting positions. The February issue of Hemispheres focused on select Q1 and Q2 events.
Outreach to the On- & Off-Premise Trade
Combined with our traditional print campaign partners, we execute robust digital advertising and promotions with our media partners. To drive trade awareness, our partnerships with The Tasting Panel, The Somm Journal, and Wine Spectator, we utilize dedicated emails, newsletter features, and geo-targeting to create awareness and pull for our distributor partners.
The Drop on ApexDrop!
In addition to ApexDrop’s robust content generation and product sampling, each campaign with the 50 Instagram Influencers averages a following of more than 750,000 followers. Over our last nine campaigns, with more scheduled for 2022, our total reach has surpassed 6 million with our Engagements reaching more than 180,000. We invite you to visit our Instagram accounts with Tags to see the quality and diversity of our content and, of course, follow us!
Our Vivino end-of-February 2022 dashboard shows a 69% surge in scans following the South Beach Wine & Food Festival with the Geodata showing Miami as a center of the action.
Vivino allows millions of consumers to instantly search for ratings and reviews. Its scan technology pulls up any bottle in its app so buyers can receive all the wine facts. From the winery perspective, the platform enables us to market to people scanning bottles of wines in our category, track consumer opinion of our wines through scores and review, while also providing geographical intel. Matching geographical scan numbers to in-market events helps us measure effectiveness. Our average rating for both Lloyd Cellars and Prescription Vineyards is 4.28 out of 5.
Recent The Tasting Panel & The Somm Journal Scores for Our New Releases
Enhanced by notes of chervil, oregano, and chamomile, a luscious lemon meringue eeks out at mid-palate. Crushed stone, white pepper and vibrant minerality – plus that spark of acidity – is just the right Rx for its great food-pairing abilities. 92
>>> Publisher’s Picks
Lloyd Cellars 2020 Chardonnay, Carneros ($40)
Creamy notes of toasted vanilla, with a surge of cookie dough, ripe melon, kiwi, and peanut brittle. The wine caresses with a sumptuous touch. 94
>>> Down the Aisle
Prescription Cellars 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon, Alexander Valley, Sonoma County ($30)
Grainy tannins fulfill a mission to coat the teeth with blueberry compote. The gushing, dynamo of a wine features plump plums, powdered cocoa, and blooming lavender. This Prescription is really an over-the-counter cure for disbelievers of Alexander Valley’s side effect of textural lushness. Winemaker Rob Lloyd over-delivers on some amazing medicine for the soul. 93
>>> Publisher’s Picks Section
Lloyd Cellars by Robert Lloyd 2019 Pinot Noir, Sta. Rita Hills, Santa Barbara County ($50)
Its carmine hue is deep and inviting, and scents of heather and a woodsy forest are sensual. Full and generous with a lather of huckleberry and dark chocolate coffee bean. Layers of tilled soil and dried flowers keep it exciting and complex. The brown-sugared cinnamon finish goes deep on the finish. 94
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Join Lloyd Cellars for a romantic evening of rare wine tasting that begins with a champagne reception under the stars at Santa Barbara’s charming old-world Carousel House. Extremely limited reserve level wines are matched with gourmet appetizers from top local chefs, artisan cheeses, fresh fruits, olive oils, and more while live music keeps things super cool.
Tired of eating Holiday Leftovers? We recommend Bob Blumer’s Lobster Tacos to reset fatigued palates
Please, no more turkey and gravy and tryptophan crashes. Give me some energizing south-of-the-boarder zing to brighten a winter day – and pair it with the hedonistic pleasure of eating lobster. Now that’s a reset! The other bonus is that tacos are finger food, so how nice is a meal that doesn’t create another pile of dishes in the sink.
This is the sixth installment of Blumer’s ‘Pescatarian Holiday’ 2021 recipes series with Lloyd Cellars. If you’d like to see all of his ‘Pescatarian Holiday’ recipes, we invite you to scroll through our Online Recipes section. Shop our Online Store or utilize our Store Locatorfor local shopping!
3ouncesbest-available butter(about 3/4 of a stick)
1clovegarlicminced
½cupcilantrominced, divided
½jalapeno chiliideally red for color, stemmed, seeded and minced
zest of 1 lemon + 3 tablespoons juicedivided
zest of 1 orange
4medium sizeroughly 6-inches flour or corn tortillas
2ripe avocados
2green onionssliced finely
Your favorite salsa or hot sauce
1limequartered for serving
Instructions
Use a heavy sharp knife to cut the lobster tails in half. (Place your knife on the end where the flesh is exposed and cut down through to the tail.)
Brush the exposed flesh with oil and season with salt and pepper. Reserve.
In a small pan, over medium heat, melt butter. When it starts to bubble, add garlic, half of the cilantro, jalapeno, citrus zest and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Stir for 1 minute, then remove from heat and reserve.
Half and pit avocados. In a medium bowl, mash avocado with 2 tablespoons lemon juice, the remaining cilantro and the green onion. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Reserve.
Preheat grill to medium/medium-high direct heat, or heat a heavy skillet to medium-high.
Place lobster tails cut-side down on grill or pan and cook for 4 minutes. Flip, and baste generously with butter mixture. Cook for 2 more minutes, or until tails are cooked throughout.
As the tails are cooking, burnish the tortillas on the grill or stovetop until toasted.
Spread avocado mixture and salsa over each of the tortillas, then place lobster tails, in their shells, overtop. Instruct the diners to pull their own lobster meat.
Notes
Either or: Serve 4 as an appetizer or 2 as a main
Shopping tip: Frozen lobster tails are not as expensive as you might imagine, and are available in the fish section of many large grocery stores.
