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The IronWino Wine Challenge
June 11, 2000 Cellar Stadium, Pasadena, CA
This is a parody and spoof of the Iron Chef
television show, it is intended as humor. We have the utmost respect
and appreciation of this show and honor it with the following
parady.
Upon the
dawning of the new millennium, one man’s fantasy became a reality
with the opening of Cellar Stadium. His motive was to bring together
the greatest wine talent and reveal the intrigues of wine. To
realize his dreams, he started choosing the top wine masters,
whom he named the “Iron Winos”. To fulfill his desire for
oenophilic enlightenment, he summons the Iron Winos to engage
worthy competitors in competitions of epic proportion.
Cellar
Stadium is the arena where the Iron Winos await the challenge
of leading wine experts from around the world. In this battle
for the ultimate honor, competitors must utilize all their senses
and intellectual capacity to identify wines served blind. And
if ever a challenger wins over the Iron Wino, he or she will
gain the people’s ovation and fame forever.
In the inaugural Iron Wino competition, Chairman Harrington welcomes
to Cellar Stadium the West Coast’s own rocket scientist of renown,
Dr. Bernard Roth.
Dr. Roth
cut his teeth on fine wines during a year’s sojourn in Cambridge,
England, at which time he learned the finer nuances of sherry,
claret and port wines. During the 1980’s, as a graduate student
in Austin, Texas, he expanded his wine horizons into the eclectic
world of Alsatian and German Rieslings, Rioja, California Cabernet
and Pinot Noir, Burgundies and Shiner Bock. Upon his arrival in
California in 1989, he refined his palate and discovered the wonders
of Rhone varietals.
Dr. Roth has issued a challenge to WCWN’s only double Iron Wino,
the master of Rhones and Zinfandels, Dr. Tom Hill. For this challenge,
Chairman Harrington has chosen three flights with three themes,
playing to each competitor’s strengths. One flight will be pinot
noirs, one will be Rhone reds, and in the final flight, anything
goes.
What inspiration
will the challenger bring and how will the Iron Wino fight back?
The heat will be on!
The competition will
be held in Pasadena on Sunday evening, June 11, the weekend before
Hospice du Rhone. The Chairman has reserved several judges slots
at the taste challenge for WCWN participants. Each judge will
be required to bring one bagged bottle of wine in either the pinot
noir or Rhone Red category. Judges will receive pours of all wines
and will help score the performances of the Iron Wino and the
challenger. Dinner will be provided at a reasonable cost to attendees.
If you are interested in participating, attendance will be awarded
on a first come basis. Just contact the Chairman via the email
link below for additional details and to reserve your spot.
mailto:
harrington-san
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