Sunrise at Play!
60 members and guests enjoy home cooked food and premium wines at the spectacular, waterside residence owned by Glen Trenouth and Jane Cebo. The Sparkling Wine we enjoy is called Concha y Toro from Chile - produced and fermented in the bottle very similar to the method used by the French to produce Champagne but the name 'Champagne' is reserved by the French, for wine produced in the Champagne district of France and the name is protected by law. Concha y Toro used to call their product 'Champagne' and that was on their bottle. Now we notice they call it 'Concha y Toro Brut'. It is served by several of the hotels in Cayman with their all you can eat - all you can drink Sunday brunches and is sometimes called Cayman Champagne.
The White wine we served is a 2009 Nobilo Marleborough Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand. It is an excellent premium wine perfect to compliment either fish or meat - forget the old ruling about white wine with fish, red wine with meat. Wine experts exorcised that mistake some time ago. The Sommelier at the Ritz Carlton has told us that the 'nose' of a good white wine is most important. Good wines should smell of apples and our Nobilo Marlborough certainly does.
The Red wine we served was the pick of the bunch. It was a 2007 Trivento Golden Reserve Malbec from Argentina. It is a superb wine, premium quality and delightful to taste. All of these wines are available locally, at moderate prices, from Cayman Distributors.
A word about cost. Rotary Sunrise strives with its Fellowship events to give the best value in Cayman. Last night's event was $25 per head for all you could eat and all you could drink. Our talented chefs were Michael, Christine, Barbara, Tony, Dawn, Tara and Debbie Strassburg. Our chief barman Rickie Handal, Tara's husband. We had food and wine left over, some of which will be used for our next event. We still managed to (just) break even.
We missed the fireworks - it was too windy and would have been dangerous - they are bought and paid for and we will keep them for another SUNRISE occasion.
For all those who came, thank you for your company. For those who missed it, you missed one of our best events ever. Christine was the organizer, Rosie the ringmaster—they did a great job!