Team building at the Met in New York!

Metropolitan Museum of New York

 

Organizing events in unforgettable atmospheres is our job and choosing the best location ... it's a great privilege! So it was when we organized a dinner party for selected guests, 40 members of the Metropolitan Museum in New York for the sales promotion of some of the best Italian labels of wine, gourmet foods and art.

The preparation took a few months, but we managed to organize an evening that will remain as the most exciting event of our Italy America Roadshow 2011 tour!

 

Here were the protagonists:

Luciano Zazzeri, chef of the restaurant La Pineta

Filippo Bartolotta, our grapetrotter and presenter, appointed to lead a tasting of 12 incredible wines and products of excellence made by Italian food artisans!

We partnered with chef Fred Sabo and sommelier Thierry Pradines for the week of preparation before the event took place in an atmosphere of gracious hospitality. The entire staff was ready to listen to our suggestions and requests with Luciano Zazzeri.

It all started with a dinner on the Roof Terrace at the MET where 40 lucky members of the Museum managed to win the event at an auction. The auction was served dinner created by Luciano Zazzeri and combined with 12 of our featured wines from the Italy America RoadShow.

Throughout the month, Luciano Zazzeri had also organized a dinner event in the Trustees Dining Room at the MET together with the kitchen staff and Fred Sabo the week before the VIP event.

 

The success of the evening, the joy of Luciano and the enthusiasm of the guests was what gave us the energy to charge through future stages of the RoadShow, which took us to travel America far and wide. We met some of the most famous chefs of America, many wine collectors and gourmet food purveyors, as well as the heart of Americans.