Our table was stocked with Purple Cowboy Tenacious Red, PromisQous Red, Middle Sister Drama Queen Pinot Grigio and Rebel Red and our newest releases Red Haute Pinot Noir and White Haute Riesling.

We wanted to give a shout out to two of our favorite seminars: Brian Duncan’s Pinot Pairing Party and Josh Wesson’s Best Wines for Haute Dogs.These two pros not only know their stuff inside and out but are incredibly entertaining.  (Who says wine has to be stuffy! )

Brian is Wine Director of the famed Bin 36 restaurant group in Chicago where he teaches wine classes. He is also is a hands-on winemaker of Bin 36 wine. If you’re in the Chicago area and want to learn more about wine, we would highly recommend checking out a class or two. 

Josh is founder of pioneering Best Cellars wine shops and Director of Wine, Beers and Spirits for A&P stores in the Northeast. He has long been a champion of wines priced under $15 and “playing” with wine (aka breaking all the rules). If you ever have a chance to attend a tasting or seminar led by Josh, be sure to sign yourself up. You’ll learn a lot and have a lot of fun doing it.

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Our Wine Sisterhood stars, of course, are you (although if Top Chef's Tom Colicchio wanted to cook us dinner, we wouldn’t mind.) We want to thank all our friends who stopped by the table to taste and chat and voice an opinion or share a comment on packaging or the taste of the wine.

If you’ve ever taken a Wine Sisterhood survey, you know that your feedback is important to us and really is the founding principle of  the Wine Sisterhood. You help us shape the next new wine brands and have participated in the world’s first crowdsourced wines. As much as we love our virtual conversations, however, there’s nothing quite like hearing your comments in person. 

All the wines are conversation starters, but many of you seem to have a particular fondness for Middle Sister. Maybe it’s Rebel Red’s snarky attitude or the fact that there’s a little bit of Middle Sister in all of us, but something about these wines makes people want to share personal family stories.

Some were hilarious and others were quite poignant. We want you to know that we appreciate each and every one of your comments, suggestions and anecdotes. 

Sometimes people ask us why we participate in tastings like Aspen--in other words, what's in it for us. Well, it's a chance for us to have some one-on-one time with not only our trade partners who often attend these events, but also you…our consumer partners. We truly enjoy listening and you really do have a hand in creating the next new wine brand. O.K., time for group hug.

Speaking of voicing your opinion, remember there are only a few days left to take our June survey. Let us know what you think about one of the hottest wines out there, Moscato. If you tell us to make one, we’re gonna make one. Just watch us.