Master Class Seminar: Discover the World’s Most Exciting Emerging Wine Regions by Bartholomew Broadbent

Master Class Seminar: Discover the World’s Most Exciting Emerging Wine Regions by Bartholomew Broadbent

Legendary importer Bartholomew Broadbent, one of the 50 most influential voices in the wine world and owner of Broadbent Selections, Inc., leads a tasting of some of the finest wines from the world's most exciting emerging wine regions.

The Details

Planning Your Itinerary

• Please note that this seminar ends just 15 minutes before the VIP/Early Evening Walk-Around Grand Tasting begins.  The seminar area is merely steps away from the Grand Tasting.

General

• An all-inclusive seminar 
• You may arrive anytime after 4:15 pm
• Street parking will be free on Saturday 
• You'll taste 10 or more great wines from the most exciting emerging wine regions in the world

Talent

• Known as a lively, witty and informative wine lecturer, Bartholomew Broadbent is also one of the world’s foremost authorities on Port and Madeira. He is credited for being responsible for the growth of Port consumption in North America during the mid 1980’s and was responsible for the re-introduction of Madeira to America in 1989, instrumental in its growth since then. Bartholomew Broadbent’s company, Broadbent Selections, Inc., founded in 1996, is the exclusive US national importer for some of the worlds most sought after family wineries, including Chateau Musar, Warwick Estate, Spy Valley, Ferreira, Quinta do Crasto, Louis Guntrum, Montsarra Cava, Vilafonte, AABadenhorst, and Dr.Hermann. He owns Broadbent Port, Madeira and Vinho Verde in Portugal, Broadbent Malbec in Argentina, Broadbent Gruner Veltliner in Austria and The Curator in South Africa.

  Raised in the English wine trade in a formal apprenticeship to his legendary father, Michael Broadbent MW [Director of Christie’s and prolific wine author], Bartholomew’s company is now one of America’s leading wine importers.

  Bartholomew Broadbent was named one of the “fifty most influential people in the wine world.” by Decanter Magazine (June 1997). Broadbent Selections, Inc. was nominated Importer of the Year in 2005 by Wine Enthusiast Magazine and was named one of the 100 fastest growing companies in 1998 by Entrepreneur Magazine and Dun & Bradstreet. In 2013 IntoWine.com ranked him 48th in the “Top 100 Most Influential People in the U.S Wine Industry.” Today, he has expanded from his pivotal role in the breathtaking growth of Port and Madeira to “exert a profound influence on the US wine market” says Decanter. He lives in Virginia where he is also pioneering the distribution of Virginia wines, now available in over 30 states.

Wines

• A list of the wines tasted will be posted in early 2020

The Virginia Wine Expo benefits the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Educational Foundation.

All inclusive.  Price Covers Food & Drink. 21 and over only and no infants or strollers, except at the VIP Walk-Around Grand Tasting Locals Sunday Special on Sunday, March 8, 2020 at historic Main Street Station.