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Local Event Premier Host
Cost: $190 for TWO (delivery included)
Join with Sommelier, Erica Archer + three incredible chefs for an epic virtual wine dinner centered around fresh-out-of-the-water Maine Scallops. And it’s all paired with two really great bottles of wine—delivered to your door in Greater Portland.*
That’s right, 1-2 hours before logging-on to join everyone for wine and dinner you’ll receive your dinner-for-two package containing 3 different Maine Scallop dishes, one from each chef and the two featured bottles of wines. And we’ll enjoy them all together, with the chefs and they’ll walk us through and quick and easy details we need to plate.
Featured Wines TBA
Featured Chefs and Menu
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Second Course
Third Course
We are excited to have you join us for this incredible collaborative virtual wine dinner as we gather online from the comforts of home—with two wine glasses in hand, three Chefs, and a Sommelier on the screen—to discuss the featured wines and the delicious Maine Scallop dishes from Chefs Sholl, Miller, and Sansonetti, all while creating community, and supporting local restaurants, farmers, and purveyors.
Due to the nature of this event, we regret that we cannot accommodate food substitutions.
The dinner-for-two ticket price is all-inclusive of a 3-course savory dinner-for-two with these 3 incredible chefs, 2 bottles of wine, tax, service, download materials, event experience, and delivery. “Seating” is limited to 12 deliveries of wine-dinner-for-two in the Greater Portland area. Our delivery area includes Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland Foreside, Falmouth, Gorham, Portland, Scarborough, South Portland, and Westbrook. Live outside our delivery area? Let us know in the Special Instructions section at checkout that you’ll meet us for curbside pick-up at 3:15 pm at Chaval.
Live outside of our Greater Portland delivery area? No problem. You may meet us for contact-less curbside pick-up at 3:15 pm at Chaval. Just make sure to put a note in the comments section at checkout that you’ll do 3:15 curbside at Chaval.
For delivery and curbside, you can rest assured that we are exceeding all requirements for your safety and the safety of our teams in preparing, pick-up, and delivering.
Chef Kirby Sholl - bio coming soon
Chef Austin Miller - bio coming soon
Chef Damian Sansonetti, a Pittsburgh native, grew up exploring fresh, local ingredients, making pasta with his grandmothers, curing meats with his grandfather, and assisting his father in the family kitchen. A career in food was practically his birthright. Graduating from the Pennsylvania Culinary Institute, Sansonetti worked at Nantucket’s Brant Point Grill and Pittsburgh’s Steelhead Grill, moving to New York to open Heartbeat in the W Hotel. Sansonetti met Daniel Boulud while working at Shallots in Midtown and eventually took a position at Boulud’s DB Bistro Moderne.
Training rigorously under Chef Olivier Muller, Sansonetti became chef de banquet at Daniel and then sous chef under Jean Francois Bruel. Promoted to executive chef of Bar Boulud in 2008, Sansonetti was named a 2009 StarChefs.com Rising Star. Now ensconced in the burgeoning food scene of Portland, Maine, Sansonetti’s partnered with his wife, Pastry Chef Ilma Lopez (a 2014 StarChefs.com Rising Star Pastry Chef and nominated in 2018 for a James Beard Award as Outstanding Pastry Chef), to open their Italian fine dining restaurant Piccolo and in 2017 Chaval.
Sommelier Erica Archer is a Maine native and a true oenophile, having obtained high levels of certification in her field. In 2010, she was awarded the Wine Spirit and Education Trust Level Three Advanced Certification in Wines and Spirits (with merit), became a Sommelier in the American Court of Master Sommeliers, and received her Certified Wine Professional award from the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, California. Erica is the principal of Wine Wise, a wine education and events service, and is skilled at creating truly creative and memorable wine experiences that take guests beyond a typical tasting with her intimate understanding of what makes each wine unique. And she’ll do it with her trademark down-to-earth style and sense of humor.
Where do we meet?
On your computer screen at 6 pm on the day of the event. You’ll download the Zoom app and access our event through a link that we will send you.
What do we need?
Set your dinner table with a fork, knife, spoon, napkin, water, and a wine glass per person. You’ll also need a corkscrew, an ice bucket if you’d like to keep your wine chilled, the downloaded materials for this event, and a computer with internet access, sound, and video capability. Be sure to download the ZOOM app before this event as that is the platform we will be using so that we can all see and hear each other.
Tell us about delivery.
We’ll deliver your box of goodies between 3:00-5:00 pm on the day of the event. We’ll text you when we’re on our way and again when delivery has been completed. We are vigilant about abiding by all safety and physical distancing requirements for your safety and that of ourselves and our teams. Delivery is limited to the Greater Portland area. If you live outside of the Greater Portland area and would like to pick-up your own box curbside at Chaval in Portland, we can arrange that.
Cancellations/Reschedules/No Shows
Because of our size, and the need to purchase the wine and food to accommodate the number of tickets sold, we will be able to refund you only if we can re-sell your tickets (minus the $25.00 credit card transactions we have to pay) OR reschedule you to a different event (there is no credit card transaction fee in this case). There are no refunds or reschedules for no-shows or if we are not able to resell your tickets. Makes sense, right?
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