All about Adelsheim

Today starts the second event of the 2010 Wine Dinner Series. This weekend we will celebrate the Lowcountry's culinary heritage with David Adelsheim of Adelsheim Vineyard.

When I moved to the south almost three years ago it wasn't for the heritage or the food. I didn't know there was more to it than biscuits and gravy and okra. The only thing that I had ever really eaten was frozen fried okra and some grits that my New England Grandmother attempted to appease my Southern Step-Grandfather. But after listening to my boss wax poetically on the wonders of Southern food, for a long time I might add, I eventually started to listen and realized that there was a whole world of food here and some fantastic stories to tell. Pair all of that heritage of food with a rip roaring glass of wine and presto, I found a whole new way of looking at the South.

As Sommelier, and the "Wine Geek Party Planner" of Palmetto Bluff,  I work to devise new and innovative ways to intoxicate our guests. Between the planning and execution of our year-long wine dinner series and week-long food festival my glass and plate are always full - I'm creating new and innovative ways for you to experience the tastes, sights and sounds of epicurean world.

My blog entries will be a fun look at my world through the often hazy lens of my wine glass.