{"id":1665,"date":"2016-07-10T21:13:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T02:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecorkscrewconcierge.com\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2017-07-03T17:14:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T22:14:25","slug":"loire-fest-2016-sonoma-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecorkscrewconcierge.com\/2016\/07\/loire-fest-2016-sonoma-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Loire Fest 2016 at Sonoma Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"
So I’d been hearing all about #LoireFest2016 and had been trying to make one of the numerous events being held all around town. Loire Fest<\/a>\u00a0is a month long celebration during the month of July where a handful of Houston wine bars and restaurants highlight various Loire Valley wines. I was so interested as the Loire Valley is not a region that I know a great deal about and I definitely want to learn more. I knew enough about Vouvray, Sancerre, Pouilly-Fume and Chinon to be dangerous but knew I’d only scratched the surface.<\/p>\n Every time there was an event I wanted to attend, I had Thing 1 and Thing 2 and that just won’t work in a wine bar. But then my friends at Sonoma Wine Bar & Restaurant<\/a> started advertising their CHILDREN’S menu and I saw my opportunity. I’d previously written about the folks at Sonoma Wine Bar here<\/a>. So off we went with Thing 1 and Thing 2 in tow along with our iPads.<\/p>\n They had two different flights that would fit the bill, a Chenin Blanc flight as well as a Loire Fest 2016 flight.<\/p>\n