Lew's Fine Wines Gazette: 38th Telluride Wine Festival Colorado was a huge success

French Lincet cheese at Telluride Wine Festival

38th Telluride Wine Festival Colorado was a huge success

By Osvaldo Villar

The Telluride Wine Festival has been restructured with a change of the Constitution (Statute) and to represent a wider variety of events, and include the participation of local artisans and traders with Made In Colorado products, and the best wines from North America, Uruguay, Argentina, rest of the world the 2018 Festival has been overbooked to the point that we refused more than 1200 returns. More than 7,000 attendees attended winemaking events, including sommeliers Charlie Arturaola and Christopher Sawyer (VIP).

Why is the Wine Festival becoming more popular? Festival director Laurel Robinson says, “We are now confirming after five years what kind of people come to the Festival to attend the many conferences, tastings, including Lincey cheese from Champagne and Burgundy, and we know what they really like. so we can prepare the 2019 edition with positive and winning results. “

Like the popular Brunch on Main Street Main Street that once again hosted guests with tables, tents so that volunteers, renowned chefs and sommeliers can work in an idyllic setting with confidence.

Each year, some of the most wanted events are Winegrower’s Lunches. Thursday afternoon lunch, hosted by Sheridan Chop House, Bright Dining Room, Historic with windows guarded by Chef James Beaux (the chef-owner of 5 East Coast restaurants), he gave 6 classes, each of them paired with classic varietals grapes from each of 6 distinctive wine cellars.

This year we hosted a new film “The Duel Of Wine” a 60-minute film with actor Charlie Arturaola, world-renowned sommelier, filmmaker and wine educator, a judge at the Brussels World Cup and a member of the American Sommelier Association. This film was broadcast on the big screen.

Fifty wine cellars of international renown provided the main tastings of wines from different grape varieties that give its good reputation of taste and different wines of the world to the Festival.

Like other annual Telluride events, volunteer volunteers have contributed to this year’s huge success. The Telluride Wine Festival thanks them for their generosity

This year we got some useful feedback that will help to improve the next 2019 edition. One participant commented that he had attended the last 8 Festivals and Telluride Wine Festival and “2018 was the best”. With the Lincey and “The Taste of Real Cheese Since 1895”.

This year 2018 Telluride Wine Festival presented the Lincet cheese from Burgundy (Bourgogne). This cheese is ideal for tasting and pairing food and wine. It is a historical cheese always made by hand according to age-old techniques. Lincet, is a cow’s milk cheese produced in France since 1895. The Lincetfamily has passed down from generation to generation the secrets of Lincet’s know-how. Located in the heart of Burgundy where the traditions of the region’s cheesemakers Champagne and Burgundy, Lincetcheese dairy make authentic cheeses with unique expertise.

The recipes left were always the same

The recipes left were always the same. A respect of the tradition that produce the Chaource (easily found in the US market USA) Chaource is a village in the Greater East County of France (the Champagne region) and its protected AOC since 1970 and nowadays (since 1996) AOP which guarantees as long as the milk comes from the designated region that the cheese is made according to strict production guidelines, specific are the best allies to make high quality cheeses every day. Chaource PDO, Balances PDO cheese, Brillat-savarin IGP, Soumaintrain IGP, Pleasure of Burgundy. Synonymic cheeses with French ripening taste. It is marketed also in Europe and in the whole world.

Telluride Wine Festival Director, Chris Sawyer and fellow sommelier Charlie Arturaola served Chaource at room temperature accompanied by Gosset and Laurent Perrier champagnes during the many Telluride Wine Festival conferences, tastings and meals and the public greatly appreciated it. Lincet cheeses are quite affordable and easy to find at US gourmet shops, or online.

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