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Music, Wine, & CLE
Written By: Donna Rhodes | Issue: 2021/07 – July
The Center for Life Enrichment will give you plenty to wine about with its exciting new summer series. For more information, visit clehighlands.com.
Davis Picklesimer and Karen Hunt
CLE isn’t just about Life Enrichment, it’s about lifelong enjoyment. Now that safe-mingling is back, let the celebration begin!
CLE’s new Winemakers Series will present unique opportunities for some serious shoulder-rubbing at personalized wine tastings in addition to one-on-one conversations with domestic and internationally renowned vintners.
Board members Davis Picklesimer and Karen Hunt collectively have decades of professional and personal relationships within the wine industry. She served in leadership positions in several Napa Valley giants. She was President of DAOU Winery as well as V.P. of Francis Ford Coppola Winery and Peter Mondavi Family Wintery.
She says, “I had the opportunity to meet many winemakers and executives. They are a close-knit group. But no one knew about the exceptional chefs and fine quality food and wine associated with Highlands. It’s a well-kept secret.”
Part of her duties (though she thinks of it as joy) was to invite wine-makers and winery owners to gatherings at patrons’ homes. Hosts arranged for wine enthusiasts, aka serious purchasers to indulge in extraordinary evenings with Napa’s wine makers and masters.
Karen calls Highlands The Aspen of the East Coast. She’s eager to put Highlands on a very prestigious map. She and Davis (proprietor of Highlands Wine Shop) accepted positions on the Center for Life Enrichment Board. They are hard at work applying their expertise to promotion of the Highlands wine, food, and entertainment community through the educational prowess of CLE, the Highlands Chamber, OEI, and other generous businesses.
Michael Trujillo, a renowned California winemaker, wowed Highlands with a June visit, schmoozing with 56 locals at a planned informal gathering. If you want to experience his exceptional wines, Highlands Wine Shop now carries them.
Brian Larky, founder of Dalla Terra Wine will be coming to Highlands July 21-22. Visit clehighlands.com for the latest listing of unveilings, tastings, restaurant-partnering, and soirées. Learn how CLE will bring wine luminaries like Larky directly to you.
And if you have the heart and the time, CLE still needs volunteers. Remember, Center for Life Enrichment keeps putting the CLE in clever!
by Donna Rhodes
