Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

Become A Wine Expert: 5-Part Wine Series

Presenter: Kathleen Powers Morgan, Ph.D.

Beginning Thursday, October 3rd

             2019 Northshore Magazine BONS Winner “Best Wine Selection”  

Register by calling Kathleen or Courtney @ 978 282-1455

Or go to: www.shop.savourwineandcheese.com/5-Part-Wine-Series-2046.htm.

Your Wine Learning Experience Includes:

–Trending what’s new and exciting in the wine world

–Making a $10 wine taste like a $40 wine…in minutes.

–Saving as much as 300% on your restaurant wine selections.

–Choosing the best values in shopping for wine, saving at least 10% on every purchase.

–Selecting wines that will pair well with food, elevating taste, enhancing your enjoyment

–Maximizing the experience: understanding how to evaluate wine for color, aroma, taste and even faults. Learning about the impact on taste of different vintages, choosing stemware, decanting, serving temperature and much more.

Kathleen shares her expertise from her years of hands-on experience with retail shops, four-star restaurants, wine distributors, importers, innovative vintners world-wide and as a

certified sommelier.

Five Classes Curriculum:

1. Tasting Wine, evaluating wine using techniques from the Court of Master Sommeliers,
2. White Wine Varietals,
3. Red Wine Varietals,
4. Wine Know-How: Storage, Buying, Restaurant Ordering, BYOB Etiquette, Decanting, Choosing Stemware, Vintages, Proper Serving Temperature
5. Wine and Food Pairings: taste-testing combinations

Tuition: $250.00 for 5-classes includes: notebooks, instructional handouts, vintage charts, food, and quality wines to taste each week.

How: Register by calling Kathleen or Courtney @ 978 282-1455

Or go to: www.shop.savourwineandcheese.com/5-Part-Wine-Series-2046.htm.

When: Five consecutive Thursdays in October -3,10,17, 24, 31 – Class time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Where: Savour Wine & Cheese, 76 Prospect St. Gloucester

Parking: directly behind Savour. + The class is limited to 12 people + Register by Sept. 30th

Book your stay now.  https://www.beauporthotel.com/

Details To Be Released at the Sept. 27 Essex County Arts & Culture Summit at The Cabot

Essex County Community Foundation announced today that it is making a new $1.3 million investment to support a strong ecosystem for arts, culture and creative enterprise in Essex County.

This next phase of ECCF’s Creative County Initiative (CCI), which was successfully piloted in 2018 with a $500,000 investment from the Barr Foundation, is made possible through a second investment of $1 million over three years from the Boston-based organization. ECCF will raise the additional $300,000.

This partnership with Barr and its Creative Commonwealth Initiative will allow ECCF to expand on our pilot phase efforts, which included $300,000 in partnership grants to artists, nonprofits, business and community leaders for public art and creative placemaking projects. 

“What we have accomplished collectively through CCI in the last two years is a testament to how many people in Essex County care about the vital role arts and culture play in our communities,” said ECCF President and CEO Beth Francis. “We are so thrilled – and extremely grateful – to continue the critical work of elevating arts and culture in Essex County’s cities and towns with the Barr Foundation.”

ECCF is one of a cohort of five community foundations across the state being funded by Barr’s Creative Commonwealth Initiative, an investment in the unique potential of community foundations to build local networks for arts and culture and to help the creative sector become more sustainable, equitable and accessible statewide.

The second phase of ECCF’s Creative County Initiative will once again focus heavily on partnership grants, which brought to life – and continue to bring to life – 12 public art and creative placemaking projects across our region, from Lynn to Newburyport and many communities in between.

You can find out much more about a second phase of grantmaking and additional details on ECCF’s new $1.3 million investment in arts and culture in the region on Sept. 27 at the 2019 Essex County Arts & Culture Summit. 

“Many of the projects funded by the pilot phase of ECCF’s Creative County Initiative were incubated at the 2018 Arts Summit,” said Francis. “This year’s event is the perfect opportunity for artists, nonprofit organizations and community leaders to come together to form new collaborative partnerships that can have a meaningful impact on their cities and towns and help to shape the future of arts, culture and creativity in Essex County.”

The 2019 Essex County Arts and Culture Summit is happening on Sept. 27, 2019 from 9am – 4pm at The Cabot in Beverly. See the full schedule of events and register at www.eccf.org/arts-summit.

Adding to his vast fleet Chris picked up this classic Whaler-

1973 and she still is rock solid.

Hi Joey,

Here’s the link to join us live at 8:15AM

Here’s the link- https://www.facebook.com/GoodMorningGloucester/