Taste of COPIA Lunch: Awesome Austria with Guest Willi Klinger from the Austrian Wine Marketing Board
Wine & Food Program
04/18/2008 - 1:00pm
04/18/2008 - 2:15pm
Interactive cooking demo, garden talk and lunch with wine
Take an armchair tour of innovative, artistic and ever-so-appetizing Austria, home to Mozart, Strudel and Grüner Veltliner. Culinary Instructor Jill Hough, Garden Manager Geoff Palla and Senior Vice President of Wine Peter Marks MW are your food- and wine-savvy hosts.
Menu: Restaurant Danube-Inspired Roasted Beets with Spring Greens, Horseradish Fromage Blanc and Toasted Pumpkin Seed Dressing – Roasted Stuffed Quail with Wolfgang Puck’s Huckleberry Sauce and Spaetzle – Apple Strudel with Vanilla Sauce and Sour Cherry Coulis
Willi Klinger
Director Austrian Wine Marketing Board
The new director of the Austrian Wine Marketing Board has been in leading positions in all wine distribution channels from retail to export. He is also a lecturer in oenology at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. Within the context of a rapidly changing world wine industry, his presentation of Austrian Wine broadens the horizons of everybody who works in wine.
Wine lovers and professionals the world over enjoy his skill of delivering profound information with a unique sense of humor, honed in his days as a theater actor.
The son of a gastronome, he grew up in the Upper Austria region studying French and Italian. He learned his wine and food craftsmanship from the renowned wine distributor A. V. Stangl in Salzburg. Later he played a significant role in the development of the Austrian wine retail chain Wine & Co. As managing director of Freie Weingärtner Wachau he demonstrated pioneer achievements for Austrian wine at an international level. Finally, as the right hand for the Italian cult vintner Angelo Gaja, he was responsible for more than 50 export markets. Willi Klinger is married, has two children and lives in Vienna.
Take an armchair tour of innovative, artistic and ever-so-appetizing Austria, home to Mozart, Strudel and Grüner Veltliner. Culinary Instructor Jill Hough, Garden Manager Geoff Palla and Senior Vice President of Wine Peter Marks MW are your food- and wine-savvy hosts.
Menu: Restaurant Danube-Inspired Roasted Beets with Spring Greens, Horseradish Fromage Blanc and Toasted Pumpkin Seed Dressing – Roasted Stuffed Quail with Wolfgang Puck’s Huckleberry Sauce and Spaetzle – Apple Strudel with Vanilla Sauce and Sour Cherry Coulis
Willi Klinger
Director Austrian Wine Marketing Board
The new director of the Austrian Wine Marketing Board has been in leading positions in all wine distribution channels from retail to export. He is also a lecturer in oenology at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. Within the context of a rapidly changing world wine industry, his presentation of Austrian Wine broadens the horizons of everybody who works in wine.
The son of a gastronome, he grew up in the Upper Austria region studying French and Italian. He learned his wine and food craftsmanship from the renowned wine distributor A. V. Stangl in Salzburg. Later he played a significant role in the development of the Austrian wine retail chain Wine & Co. As managing director of Freie Weingärtner Wachau he demonstrated pioneer achievements for Austrian wine at an international level. Finally, as the right hand for the Italian cult vintner Angelo Gaja, he was responsible for more than 50 export markets. Willi Klinger is married, has two children and lives in Vienna.
$50 general/$40 member
