Texas BBQ and Chianti
Tasting and Seminar
with pit master Ara Malekian
Spec’s Italian wine buyer Tom Dobson
food writer Eric Sandler (CultureMap)
Monday, March 14
2:30 p.m.
$25 per person
includes admission to the walk-around tasting
Taste of Italy’s most popular seminar, “Texas BBQ and Italian Wine,” returns this year with celebrity pit master Ara Malekian, Tom Dobson, the Italian specialist and wine buyer for Spec’s, one of the largest wine retailers in the U.S. today.
They will be joined with leading Houston food writer Eric Sandler.
For this sure to be sold-out event, Ara, Tom, and Eric will be leading wine and BBQ lovers through a tasting of top Italian wines served alongside smoked meats from Ara’s legendary Harlem Road Texas BBQ.
Spec’s has partnered with Taste of Italy this year for the first time as a title sponsor. And all the wines poured will be available at Spec’s flagship location in midtown Houston.
Wine writer Jeremy Parzen will moderate the panel.
Image via the Harlem Road Texas BBQ Facebook.
This event is presented by Spec’s and Consorzio Vino Chianti.
