{"id":15586,"date":"2018-05-08T13:15:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T18:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=15586"},"modified":"2018-05-08T13:15:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T18:15:33","slug":"hearts-delight-wine-tasting-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/hearts-delight-wine-tasting-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts Delight Wine Tasting &#038; Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15587\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15587\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15587\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/guiraud1-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/guiraud1-300x207.jpg 300w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/guiraud1.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ch\u00e2teau Guiraud wine at Hearts Delight<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsdelightwineauction.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hearts Delight Wine Tasting &amp; Auction<\/a>\u00a0 benefits the American Heart Association. This special charity event takes place May 9 through May 12 in Washington, DC. Tickets are available <a href=\"https:\/\/ahagwr.ejoinme.org\/MyEvents\/20172018HeartsDelightWineTastingAuction\/TicketPage2018\/tabid\/904101\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 chefs are involved with this charity event. Numerous wines from around the world <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>including France, Germany, California, Oregon and Virginia will be involved in the event\/auction.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hearts Delight Wine Tasting &amp; Auction Schedule<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, May 9: Congress Has Heart celebration highlights wines that will include owners and winemakers. There will also be a dinner and a live auction.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, May 10: Embassy &amp; Winemaker Dinner Series: dinner at a home, restaurant or embassy with the host, winemaker and chef.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Friday, May 11: Vintners Dinner &amp; Auction: focuses on Ch\u00e2teau Margaux wines with dinner and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>live auction.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 12: Bordeaux Master Class &amp; Grand Tasting: includes a Bordeaux Master Class, seminars, and a Grand Tasting<\/p>\n<p><i>Auctions<\/i><\/p>\n<p>WIne enthusiasts who enjoy auctions have the opportunity to participate in live and silent auctions. For those who can not attend Hearts Delight, an absentee Bidder Form is available <a href=\"https:\/\/heartsdelightwineauction.org\/auction\/absentee-bidder-form-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online<\/a>. One of the auction items is the Imperial Ch\u00e2teau Guiraud 2014. The description includes, \u201cThis very large and very impressive bottle is the equivalent of 8 regular bottles. It is brought to us by Xavier Planty, the dashing and debonair owner of Ch\u00e2teau Guiraud. Ch\u00e2teau Guiraud has been represented at every Heart\u2019s Delight since the beginning. &#8216;The Ch\u00e2teau Guiraud 2014 has a perfumed bouquet with clear honey, beeswax and honeysuckle aromas that are well defined. The palate is fresh and taut on the entry: good tension and focus here, very harmonious with a gently build in the mouth towards a satisfying marmalade and quince-driven finish.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>About Hearts Delight<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The original event began in 1999 and was relatively small compared to this 2018 event. In 1999, the event featured seven chefs and 16 ch\u00e2teaux houses. The 1999 event raised $220,000. Since that time, the Hearts Delight event has raised over $16.5 million dollars for the well known <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Heart Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Hearts Delight Wine Tasting & Auction\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=15586\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets for the Hearts Delight Wine Tasting &#038; Auction, a charity, are available for a few more hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1839,970,1078,1161,3976,98],"class_list":["post-15586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-american-heart-association","tag-auction","tag-charity","tag-event","tag-hearts-delight","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15589,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions\/15589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}