The wine tasted like summer, and it was about to become the taste of my first real kiss.
--Jay McInerney, The Juice
Every good wine has a story, and every good sommelier is an author. In many ways, a sommelier shares the challenges of a poet, the work of describing a sensory experience with mere words. A sommelier's vocabulary must be precise, muscular, vibrant.
Join us for an afternoon at the glorious Jockey Hollow Bar & Kitchen in Morristown, NJ for an afternoon of wine and words. Visionary restauranteur Chris Cannon will begin our immersive experience with a wine-tasting, a guided deconstruction of three distinct wines. Award-winning writer and editor Teresa Politano will follow with a generative writing workshop, helping us to "steal from the sommelier" by comparing the structure and language of wine to the structure and language of storytelling.
This workshop offers a lively stretch of the sensory muscles, but is also intended as a reminder that writing is fun. In this relaxed but electric space -- the intersection of wine and words -- the work that emerges is authentic, creative, and often surprising.
Along with a selection of unique wines, enjoy light refreshments.
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Teresa Politano is a writer, author, editor and writing coach. She directs the Faculty Writing Initiative at Rutgers University and is the editor of a forthcoming university anthology, Rutgers and Beyond: The Year that Changed Everything. She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Chris Cannon brings more than 30 years of New York restaurant industry experience and nationally recognized wine expertise to Jockey Hollow Bar & Kitchen. Each of his five N.Y.C. restaurants–Judson Grill, L’Impero, Alto, Convivio and Marea–received three stars from The New York Times. In 2010, his businesses received five prestigious Michelin stars, more than any one U.S. restaurant group.
ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
Registration closes midnight on Saturday, October 8.
10/09/2022
Participants must be 21 years or older when the program starts..
Minimum: 8
Maximum: 35
Registration starts on 12/13/2021.
Please contact The Writers Circle if you have any questions.