From traveling to exotic locales to experimenting with bold ingredients and trying new wines (there may be a fight over a certain bottle…) Gretchen and Adam share what they’re excited about in 2015.
Gretchen Thomas, Wine & Spirits Director
1) I want to visit the Canary Islands to see the “crater hole” vineyards and to, of course, taste the wines.
2) I’m ready to return to South America to visit my new imports from Uruguay and Chile – I haven’t been to South American in 4 years!
3) I’m hoping to take a trip to Spain with co-founders Andy Pforzheimer and Sasa Mahr-Batuz to introduce them to “Adam and Gretchen’s favorite restaurants and wineries” that they’ve never experienced.
4) I plan to start writing my first wine book on exploring Spanish wine and gastronomy.
5) I want to drink a bottle of Comando G ‘Las Umbrias’ and not share it. . .with anybody!
Adam Halberg, Culinary Director
1) I want to convince Gretchen to share some of that Comando G with me!
2) Fresh grilled Iberico pig meat! As soon as it gets released from customs, it will be in our hands and we shall convert the world to its taste.
3) I’m in talks with some crazy-talented chefs that may be joining the creative collaboration that is our chef team this year…can’t name names yet, but…
4) Ride the rotisserie! We’ve been spending some real quality time with the bartaco rotisseries and it’s made me a bit dizzy…oh, and I’m jazzed about new taco fillings.
