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Eddie Osterland
Keynote Fee : Call For Quote Travels From: CA |
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Programs
Power Entertaining with Food & Wine ... A "during dinner" Keynote AddressEddie's signature "during dinner" event. Eddie will utilize pairs of wines to enhance your dinner, and will work with your chef to custom-design a dinner unlike any others you've seen. Eddie discusses the concept of "food-wines" and demonstrates why some wines enhance food flavors better than others. This is highly entertaining ..with an explosive start-up, followed by humorous anecdotes and true stories.
LEARN SOMETHING NEW!
All too often people seem to adhere to a strict set of rules (protocol) when it comes to entertaining with wine and food. What's that all about? It's time to learn how to do it differently. Listen to the way Master Sommelier Eddie Osterland would like to see you do it.
Go way beyond the expectations of your clients/guests:
Use the right glasses, use large-format bottles, chill the reds, decant the wines, serve the best foods and wines first, go with pairs of wines that teach your guests about food-wines. Push the envelope and entertain from the position of Power...your guests will be impressed!
Use Eddie to custom design an international wine tasting reception to "kick-off" your meeting. This can be either a pre-dinner wine and light food reception, or it can replace dinner if done with more substantial hors d'oeuvres. Participants will be issued Passports that direct them to various stations that feature delicious wines and appetizer combinations from the most famous wine producing regions of the world. Eddie will work with your chef to create these unique food and wine combinations. These can include selections from France, Italy, Spain and Germany, to New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and Chile as well as the United States.
Meet America's 1st Master Sommelier! Eddie will be on hand to answer one-on-one questions. This wine tasting reception causes people to move around the room. This creates a good opportunity for networking and building rapport amongst attendees. Often people feel uncomfortable at these receptions, feeling that they have to make some idle "chit-chat". Eddie selects unique food-wines, strategically chosen to enhance the hors d'oeuvres, which offers them something to talk about. People never bring pens and paper to events, and therefore never remember what specific vintages or precise food & wine pairings they experience. The Passport they are issued delineates all of the food and wine of the evening, and thus serves as a useful and informative souvenir of your event.
Many people haven't had the opportunity to experience truly great wines--wines that, once tasted, become indelible experiences of a lifetime. Because of this, Eddie takes great delight in selecting tasting themes that are limited only by one's imagination.
Possibilities include explorations into the famous regions of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Italy and California.
* Horizontal tastings: i.e. wines from different wine producers all focused on one famous vintage.
* Vertical tastings: i.e. a series of wines from the same wine producer from different vintages.
* Comparative International tastings: here the best of California are compared with the same grape variety from France in order to see the stylistic differences between them.
Wines are chosen according to the budget of the client, and in some cases are shipped in from the source.
Speaker Information
Looking for something a little out of the ordinary for your next event? Edmund Osterland, America's 1st Master Sommelier, is now available to personally deliver his tailor-made series of entertaining and informative wine events. Watch him captivate your guests as he casually demystifies the intimidating world of wines & foods. Twenty years in the making, these wildly popular "during dinner" keynotes, are always the talk of any conference.
While working on his M.A. in psychology, Eddie worked in the restaurant industry and became fascinated with food & wine. He decided to further his education at the Université de Bordeaux, where he spent four years receiving the esteemed (D.U.A.D.) Diplôme Universitaire D'Aptitude a la Dégustation des Vins. He went to London in 1972 and became the first of the current 87 U.S. Master Sommeliers. He also worked as head sommelier at Hôtel de la Poste in Beaune, France.
He is the author of "Wines & The Bottom Line," written for the National Restaurant Association. He served as wine editor for Restaurant Business Magazine for a decade and was the Director of Trade Education for the International Wine Center in New York City. Audiences everywhere know him as funny, approachable and non-intimidating.
Testimonials
"He's the top gun in the field...short, smiling wizbang trainer Eddie Osterland!"
- Market Watch
"Wine knowledge is a powerful tool for today's businessperson-providing leverage in all business entertaining. Eddie Osterland's dynamic but expert approach makes learning about wine just as much fun as drinking it."
- Wine For Dummies.