In lieu of our weekly wine blog, this week we thought we would let you know about a special Mother’s Day Brunch at the 530 Wine Bar and the LEX 530 Event Center on Sunday, May 8th from 11 am to 3 pm…
From The Archives: Chef Trotter & the Mushroom King

Carl has been a little under the weather the last couple of days. So we’ve decided to pull out one of our editor’s favorite early blogs from January 21, 2013, to re-run. This piece is about Carl’s experience in the legendary Chef Charlie Trotter’s kitchen in Chicago. Trotter was an American chef and restaurateur. His most well-known restaurant, Charlie Trotter’s, was open in Chicago from 1987 to 2012…
Chef Charlie Trotter, Chicago chef, famous restaurantsPlanning A Dinner Party

Over the past several years I have been involved in planning a large number of dinner parties for our Wine Club and other special events we do at the LEX 530 Event Center. In today’s blog article I want to share with you some of the things I have learned in planning these parties…
dinner parties, food and wine pairings, pairing wine and food, planning a party, wine and foodGetting Closer: 530 Wine Bar Update

Everyone is so excited about getting the 530 Wine Bar to opening day, including our many new potential patrons. Unfortunately, we can’t give you the opening date just yet…but we are getting much closer. This week allow me to introduce you to one of the guys who is working…
530 Wine Bar, downtown Elkhart, tasting wine, Tom WelshAutumn Wine Dinner

LEX 530 has a new executive chef and we are so excited for you to meet him! You can at our special Autumn Wine Dinner, introducing Executive Chef Jeremy Perkins, to be held on Friday, November 19, 2021, at LEX 530. Chef Jeremy will prepare a delicious five-course dinner to be paired with Stan Minden’s and Carl Tiedemann’s wine selections…
coming soon, Jeremy Perkins, LEX 530, wine dinnerTasting Wine in Bordeaux France

Editor’s Note: While Carl is busy trying to get the wine bar up and running, we’ve asked Tom Welsh, the new manager of the 530 Wine Bar, to fill in for this week’s blog. I’m pleased to be back contributing a blog entry to TiedemannOnWines.com. As with my first opportunity to do so, I’m sharing some of the wine-related experiences I had on a recent trip to France. The trip was planned around an annual tasting event in Bordeaux of the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux, an organization…
Bordeaux, French wines, Tom Welsh, wine tastingMore Recipes Coming Soon!