A Riedel Wine Glass Seminar is a great way to offer your customers an unique tasting and a whole new insight into the tasting wonders of this wine glass.

 

Currently, The Wine Company is offering tasting seminars with the Flow Glass Series. This glass is great, as it's stem is very durable and still remains elegant.

We have scheduled a seminar towards the end of April at The Three Crows Restaurant in Delano.  The Wine Company brings in the wine for tasting and the facilitator. They require a minimum of 40 people to hold the event.

The restaurant will receive a fee per attendee and I will take preference sheets for the wine being tasted as well as special pricing for the wine glasses being used.

There is really no emphasis on food and wine pairings with this event, so we will only offer maybe crackers for pallet cleansing.

At the end, the customer walks away with the knowledge and proof that a wine glass can affect the taste and smell of the wine, and a set of 4 glasses.

If you have never attended a Riedel tasting and get the opportunity, I would highly recommend taking advantage of this learning experience.

Rock On!

Nancy Drumsta
Delano Wine and Spirits

MMBA Director

March 9th

Wirtz Beverage Group announced that the company will bring together its national portfolio of wine, spirit and beer distributorships under the Wirtz Beverage Group name.

State affiliates will begin doing business in May 2009 under Wirtz Beverage Illinois, Wirtz Beverage Iowa, Wirtz Beverage Minnesota, Wirtz Beverage Nevada and Wirtz Beverage Wisconsin.

"This move is the latest step in our strategic organizational alignment aimed at becoming the leading premium total beverage alcohol distributor by 2012," explained W. Rockwell "Rocky" Wirtz, Wirtz Beverage Group President. "With the help of our corporate team, we have put the infrastructure in place to provide a best-in-class model. Now our state affiliates can leverage their reputation for quality with the resources, efficiencies and innovation of a national distributor."

Companies included in the initiative are Griggs, Cooper & Co. and Mark VII of Minnesota.

Mr. Wirtz indicated that the initiative is aimed at driving more support to the company's multi-state operations while also serving as a platform for future strategic partnerships with compatible entities.

Assuming the title of Senior Vice President/General Manager to manage state operations are Julian Burzynski for Wirtz Beverage Illinois, Kevin Ryan for Wirtz Beverage Iowa and Wirtz Beverage Minnesota, Ray Norvell for Wirtz Beverage Nevada, and Dick Deutsch for Wirtz Beverage Wisconsin.

 

"Our strategic alignment gives each state the flexibility to address the dynamics of their unique supplier and customer relationships while our national brand provides the necessary resources and efficiencies to deliver top-line growth," noted Wirtz. "Together, Wirtz Beverage Group is differentiating itself from the competition by using innovation and transparency to deliver for our premier partners."

 

Officers who responded that night in 2007 saw his car keys on the console between the front seats, but found no evidence that Fleck, who was parked in his assigned spot, had recently driven.

Nonetheless, Fleck was convicted of drunken driving, and on Tuesday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld that conviction in a decision that serves as a reminder that a person can be guilty of drunken driving without having driven.

The appeals court said that Fleck's keys were "readily available to him," and there was no evidence he was in the car to do something other than drive. That he may not have intended to drive is "immaterial," the eight-page decision said.

There will be a new liquor store in Rush City.

After all the talk, the planning and the decisions, Rush City is finally seeing some action.

The Rush City City Council approved a project management contract during the meeting on Monday, March 23, and demolition has started.