Over the past weeks, I have been devoting a great deal of time to getting our 530 Wine Bar finished and ready to open. We are making great progress. The team is working very hard getting important components of the wine bar completed…
Building Relationships with Food & Wine

I have been in business some 40 plus years now and one of the most important things I had to learn early on was that relationships are essential to the success of any business. Not only do you have to create the relationships, but you must maintain them as well…
building relationships, friends, wine dinners, wine tastingsLEX 530 Event Center Now Open

After almost two years of planning and development, my wife Emilie and I are very pleased and excited to announce that our LEX 530 event center has officially opened this week. Emilie and I had two soft opening events last weekend…
LEX 530, wine and dinner club, wine dinners, wine tastingsWine and Dinner Club Survey

With the development of our new LEX 530 Event Center nearing completion I have begun to focus on what sort of wine events we might hold in the event center. These thoughts run parallel with my desire to restructure and improve our existing Tiedemann On Wines Wine Club…
survey, Uptown Kitchen, Wine Club, wine events, wine tastingsHartwell Cabernet, Didier’s Birthday and Upcoming Wine Events

A number of years ago my good friend Didier Loustau, of Loustau Wines and Marketing in Napa, sent me some wine from Hartwell Estate Vineyards. As I have said in the past, Didier has a great palate and can select some outstanding wines. So when he said he had tasted a couple vintages of Hartwell […]
Cabernet, Chalet Party Shoppe, Didier Loustau, Hartwell Vineyards, Javier's Bistro, Lucchese’s, McCarthy's On the Riverwalk, wine dinners, wine tastings