Winemakers Dinner with Mike Dashe

We're very pleased to announce that we'll be hosting an intimate winemakers
dinner with Mike Dashe at the Roti restaurant in the Roppongi Piramide
building on Wednesday, May 23.

Mike trained at UC Davis but then spent a year at Chateau Lafite and five
years as assistant winemaker at Ridge before setting up his own label, so he
brings a particularly sophisticated approach to Zinfandel, one of the
greatest, and certainly most exuberant, of all the red wine grapes grown in
California.

We'll start with our favorite bubbly from "J", then sit down for dinner with
Mike. During the evening we'll taste all of Dashe's current lineup before
comparing his flagship Dry Creek Zin to some 15 and 16 year-old examples
from our library, and then finishing up with his rare Late Harvest Zin
(recently featured by-the-glass at Michelin two-star L'Atelier Robuchon).
Here's the wine list and event details:

"J" Russian River Valley Brut Rose
2008 Dashe Potter Valley Riesling
2009 Dashe Les Enfants Grenache ("natural winemaking")
2010 Dashe Les Enfants Zinfandel ("natural winemaking")
2009 Dashe Dry Creek Zinfandel
1996 Dashe Dry Creek Zinfandel (from our private library)
1997 Dashe Dry Creek Zinfandel (from our private library)
2008 Dashe Late Harvest Zinfandel


Date:  May 23, 2012
Time:  7:00pm bubbles, 7:30 dinner
Cost:  9500 yen/person, pre-paid
RSVP:  Send requests for tickets to office@hoteiwines.com

Roti Roppongi
Piramide Building
6-6-9 Roppongi
Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
t: 03-5785-3671


We love the food at Roti, Mike is a great guy, and the wine lineup is
fantastic, so this will definitely be a great evening for all you red wine
lovers out there.

Looking forward to seeing you on May 23!