BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:86b76e67bd90ab89a5d741e0c53203b9276 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:2021 Heroes in Medicine VIP Reception DESCRIPTION:
Thursday May 6th, 2021 from 6:0 0 pm – 7:30 pm
Joseph Spellman, MS is Winery Sommelier for JUSTIN Vineyards and Winery. He has worked with wine since 1 979, principally as a sommelier, in Chicago’s top restaurant cellars, inclu ding Tango, Maxim’s, The Pump Room, The Park Hyatt Hotel, and Charlie Trott er’s. He has also had stints in wine retail, wholesale, and importing compa nies, as well as the Napa Valley producer Joseph Phelps. He has been a lead ing wine educator, writer, and consultant, and has led wine seminars in the US, UK, Japan, and Australia.
Another rare achievement was winning the 1997 F rench Sommelier Competition in Paris sponsored by SOPEXA, and the title “Be st Sommelier in the World in French Wines and Spirits.” He is only the seco nd American to have done so. In the following year (1998) he was named the Bon Appetit Wine & Spirits Professional of the Year.
Joseph is a major supporter of the arts, servin g as an active member in the Lyric Opera Wine Auction Advisory Board. He ha s led seminars for the Chicago Humanities Festival, various educational and health-oriented charities, and numerous student groups. His donations of t astings for arts, education, and medical charities have consistently fetche d high bids for these deserving organizations. A theatre lover, he consulte d in 2003 on an original script by Sharon Evans, “Blind Tasting,” at Live B ait Theatre in Chicago.
Among his professional written works, he is most proud of his critically praised wine notes featured in the landmark series of recipe and photography books by Chef Charlie Trotter. He was the principal wine writer of the 2003, 200 6, and 2009 Lyric Opera Auction Catalogues. He also has written grape descr iptions for the Wine Grapes posters produced by Ten Speed Press; and over t he years he has contributed to the magazines Wine & Spirits, Wine Enthu siast, Santé, Decanter, and Appellation.
As a professional palate, he has tasted for Beverage Testing In stitute, United Airlines, the Grand Jury Européen, the Oregon State Fair, S tarWine, the Jefferson Cup, and the Detroit Wine Competition. He has coordi nated several wine dinners for the James Beard Foundation and many of its c hef-contributors, as well as promotional and charity wine dinners around th e US. He has spoken at wine festivals in Aspen, Kohler, Kapalua, Napa Valle y, Sonoma County, Santa Fe, Taos, Telluride, San Diego, Carmel, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Pinehurst, the Mohegan Sun, Disney properties, and C hicago.
Other interests inclu de film, fiction, photography, baseball, and beer.
Questions please call Katherine Zuber 561-433-3940 ext. 106 or email KatherineZ@PBCMS.org
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