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Italian food matched with Australian wine

Valentina's Masterclass provides a different culinary experience in your own home.  You invite up to 8 friends, and Valentina provides the expertise and skills to teach you all how to make and enjoy the wonderful experience of home made pasta, risotto and original genuine Italian fish and meat dishes from scratch.

What is different about our masterclasses is that as well as the culinary experience we combine Italian food with a selection of fine Australian boutique wines-a completely new angle on the delights of food and wine matching.

You chose the menu with our guidance, matched with our stunning award winning Australian wines.

We can supply gift vouchers as gifts for your friends and family.

For larger groups of up to 25, we can provide a Central London venue. 
Our unique food & wine pairing events have proved to be a great activity for team building and corporate entertainment.

Who are we?
Auswineonline is a specialist online retailer selling boutique quality wines from small producers in Western Australian, and is run by Brian Oakwell, who met the acclaimed writer and teacher Valentina Harris in Piedmont on a food and wine course 15 years ago.  They have brought their common interests and passion for all things culinary and vinous together to create these very different Masterclasses having discovered, quite by coincidence that Brian's wines match Valentina's food superbly over dinner one night at a friend's kitchen table!

Valentina is still running her culinary adventures in Italy and elsewhere, and details of these will soon be available at www.cucinavalentina.co.uk

 

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VALENTINA’S MASTERCLASS –Dinner party with a difference
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Valentina’s Masterclass – Dinner Party With A Difference

 

valentinas_masterclassValentina Harris announced the launch of her new website “Valentina’s Masterclass” at a Dinner at Ransome’s Dock. Valentina Harris, author of some 20 plus books on Italian cookery, has teamed-up with www.auswineonline.co.uk to offer a new service a “dinner party with a difference”. You invite up to 8 of your friends to a “Valentina’s Masterclass” in your own home. Valentina provides the expertise and skills to teach you all how to make and enjoy the wonderful experience of home made pasta, risotto and original genuine Italian fish and meat dishes from scratch. Wonderful food accompanied by a selection of superb boutique Australian wines.

“the difference about these masterclasses is that as well as the culinary experience we combine Italian food with a selection of fine Australian boutique wines-a completely new angle on the delights of food and wine matching. You chose the menu with our guidance, matched with our stunning award winning Australian wines. We want to break the mould and get away from the standard fare, and try some different food & wine pairings. For example how about an aperitivo of “bruschetta of broad bean puree and pecorino” with a Flametree Sauvignon Blanc Semillon ’09, with its prominent gooseberry nose, and freshness or an antipasto pitted scallops wrapped in pancetta with a Kalgan River Wines Riesling ’08.

A Flametree Chardonnay ’07 could be matched with a full-on spicy prawn risotto puttanesca (with no pasta!) or a mian course of duck breast glazed with vinsanto, lemon potatoes and spinach matched with a Flametree Cabernet Merlot ’08, or a dessert of Bunet with soft orange and almond cake, and accompanied by a Talijancich 1961 Solero Muscat.

Valentina’s concluded with “I hope we have provided a glimpse of what can be achieved and destroyed some of the stereotypes and prejudices: old world food can work with new world wine”.
Food and wine matching could be heading in a new direction!

Evening events start at 7pm ending at 10.30pm and will cost £300 for a minimum of 6 people participating (only £50 per head). This Includes 6 bottles of Australian wines from Auswineonline and relevant tasting notes. More details at Valentina’s Masterclass

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Valentinas Cook Books
Books are available from all good bookshops or online retailers
 Food and Cooking Rome
The Food and Cooking of Rome & Naples
publishing October 2010
 Food and Cooking Sicily
The Food and Cooking of Sicily and Southern Italy
publishing April 2010
 Food and Cooking Tuscany
The Food and Cooking of Tuscany
buy now from amazon
 Food and Cooking Venice
The Food and Cooking of Venice
 publishing Sep. 2010
Publisher - Aquamarine Retail price - £15.99
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