Join FACCNE in starting off the holiday festivities on Friday, December 18th at 5pm EST for a Virtual Bordeaux Tasting! This event will be live from Gironde, France at Château du Seuil with our expert host, Carole Sabit. We are so excited to have Coravin as the sponsor of this event! This event will be 100% virtual, held on Zoom, and in English, so don’t miss out! We’ll have an introduction of Château du Seuil & a tasting of red & white wine, and then an opportunity to join networking sessions to chat while you enjoy your wine. This event will be held virtually and attendees will be able to purchase their wines for the event in advance. $15 per member household participation + wine / $25 per nonmember household participation + wine purchase! More information about wine purchasing below.

The Agenda

5:00pm – Join the session, introduction of Château du Seuil by Carole Sabit.

5:30pm – Tasting of two wines (one red, one white)

6:00pm – Break into networking groups, trivia games

6:30pm – Closing remarks by FACCNE

Château du Seuil is a family owned wine property that takes personal responsibility for all aspects of grape growing and wine quality control. They own all of their vineyards and do not buy grapes in. The issue of ‘provenance’ from the vineyards right through to the finished wines is critical to us. The Château du Seuil wines are first class, well reviewed in the press, and have all received international tasting awards.

The Château du Seuil philosophy over the last 8 years has been to use less and less chemical treatments in the vineyard. Chateau du Seuil is now registered as being under conversion to full organic status. This involves a far more intensive management of the vineyard as conditions in the Gironde are often humid and this means that a fully organic program is very challenging. Château du Seuil is well established, with a successful track record of working with a wide range of top hotels and fine dining restaurants around the world. They believe the future rests in cleaner viticulture with small family owned estates leading the way to more careful and dedicated management of the vineyard.

Carole Sabit will be our host for the evening at Château du Seuil. Carole has always worked in the wine industry and prior to her arrival at Château du Seuil in 1999 was in the wine trading, with a wine broker and another winegrower. She has a genuine love of wine and has obtained WSET Level 3 in English, as well as assessing the wines each year at Qualibordeaux and in some wine competition including Concours des vins de Bordeaux.

Where to buy Château du Seuil

This event will be held virtually and attendees will be able to purchase the wines for the event in advance. We have selected two locations in the Boston Area (Somerville & Newton) to purchase the wine and YES they deliver!

The wines we’ll try

With availability in over 60 countries and driven by a team of passionate executives with deep consumer product experience, Coravin is changing the way the world drinks wine. Their global retail, restaurant and winery footprint is growing rapidly, as they power some of the world’s best wine-by-the-glass programs at restaurants around the world.

Greg Lambrecht is the inventor of the Coravin Wine Preservation Opener. His devoted passion for wine, his degree in nuclear engineering from MIT and successful career in medical technologies intersected when he innovated the wine tech sector by creating a system that uses a non-coring needle to pass through the cork while it’s still in the bottle. This groundbreaking wine technology offered consumers the freedom to drink any wine, in any amount, without feeling the need to finish the entire bottle. Before founding Coravin, Lambrecht’s career focused on patenting medical technologies, including needles designed for chemotherapy.