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Fresh Look: Wine Tasting and Networking Event

lanai — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:33:50 +0000

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You are invited to the following event:
Fresh Look Wine Tasting and Networking Event

Blended Productions and Lanai Media are hosting a wine tasting and networking event at FreshCafe Hawaii, We will be showcasing Lanai’s great new wine and some great selections from Kaena Winery.

Lanai’s winemaker Mikael Sigouin of Kaena ( Ka En Na ) has been knocking some great Grenache blends out lately and he deserves the lion’s share of the credit. Mikael Sigouin, a native Hawaiian, makes Rhône varietals for his own label and as assistant winemaker at Fess Parker Winery.

Wines Featured:
Kaena Hapa Blanc’
Kaenna Granche
Lanai’s Look Me in the Eye

Come network with business professionals and make new connections to expand opportunities. It will be an evening of good conversation, delicious food, music and some fun along the way. Let’s get Blended

Date:
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (GMT-1000)

Location:
Fresh Cafe
831 Queen Street
Honolulu, HI 96813

Fresh Cafe is a not new spot to enjoy made to order sandwiches, delightful deserts, coffee drinks and the iced teas are to die for. Fresh Café offers free WiFi, and stays open late into the night. (Until 1 a.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and 2 a.m on Fridays and Saturdays.)

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Kaena and SWAM Wine Dinner Event

lanai — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:35:15 +0000

When: Monday, August 10th @ 6:00pm
Where: Off The Wall Restaurant

Tickets available at SWAM and Off The Wall Restaurant for $80 inclusive (10 Wines/5 Courses)

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Lanai’s New Wine just Landed!

docrock — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:02:52 +0000

Today we picked up the first bottles to come from the vineyards in Santa Ynes, CA. Check out “Look Me In The Eye” Wine by @LanaitheDJ. Video by @DocRock

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Comic Asks To Look Him In The Eye

docrock — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:02:07 +0000

: Image of Kaena via Snooth

He’s got a new opening number. But it’s not what you might expect from a guy who has been making the audience laugh for more than two decades.

“And it’s no joke and no laughing matter either,” said Grant “Lanai” Tabura. “I want people to take me seriously as a wine drinker.”

OK so he’s not kidding about his new “Look Me In The Eye” varietal wine, which he recently introduced at local restaurants, and which will be uncorked during a launch party at a special fund-raiser for Kaleoaloha Keiki Choir, Friday, May 29, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Honolulu Design Center’s Cupola and Amuse wine bar. Tickets are $65, which includes a free $20 Amuse wine card.

The launch party will continue from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Admission is $10 per person. Those who arrive between 9 and 10 p.m. will receive a free $10 Amuse wine card.

“Do you know when you walk into a friend’s house and you smell his mom making adobo, and your tongue and cheeks start to pucker because you can almost taste it,” said Tabura, in a tone akin to a stand-up comedy sketch. “Well, that’s the comparison I use with friends who aren’t wine drinkers. I tell them to smell it, before they drink it. And take big whiffs.”

Tabura has always had an oenology streak in him, but it wasn’t until five years ago when he met winemaker Mikael Sigouin from Beckmen Vineyards in the Santa Ynez Valley that he started seriously thinking about creating his own line of wines.

“I was there on a wine tasting tour and told someone there that I was from Hawaii,” Tabura recalled. “They told me that their winemaker was from Honolulu and introduced me to Mikael.”

A Kaiser High School graduate, Sigouin proposed the idea to Tabura and the rest as they say in the wine industry is grapevine history.

“We only have 100 cases and I’ve already pre-sold 60 of those to various restaurants, including Amuse and Stage, and the new Azure,” Tabura said. “We’re hoping by next year we’ll have three wines, including a white and a Syrah.”

Praising Sigouin for his winemaking skills, Tabura said the former Honolulu resident has been “babysitting” this wine for a couple of years.

“It took him a year to produce 75 cases,” Tabura said. “He’s a real hands-on winemaker, who’s half farmer half scientist.”

A blend of 50 percent Syrah and equal part Grenache, Look Me In The Eye should pair well with local flavors.

During the fund-raiser Stage executive chef Ron de Guzman has developed a mini loco moco and braised short rib wontons to go with this full-bodied red wine.

De Guzman will also prepare snow crab toast points and kalua pig sliders, which will be paired with Sigouin’s Kaena “Hapa Blanc” and Kaena Grenache, respectively.

“He’s from here so he understands the local palate,” Tabura said of Sigouin. “Look Me In The Eye is fruity but it’s got a great nose and a nice ending. It’s what I call an ‘occasional’ red, which means it’s good for all types of special celebrations.”

That includes raising money for the Kaleoaloha Keiki Choir, which will benefit from the May 29 wine-tasting-and-pairing event. Guests will also have a chance to bid on various items during the silent auction. The kids will also perform for the crowd, followed by guitarist Johnny Helm.

“We’re hoping this becomes our annual fund-raiser,” said the choir’s executive director Wallace Horibata. “It’s going to be fun and it will give people a chance, not only to try a new wine, but also to listen to the kids sing and see what we’ve accomplished so far this year. It’s an exciting moment for us.”

And it is, too, for Tabura who came up with his wine’s whimsical name.

“I’m 25 percent Italian and when I visited Italy, people there said to me, ‘Look me in the eye’ when proposing a toast,” Lanai said. “So now I say that to all my friends. There are other cultures that say the same thing. And even kings and queens used to say ‘Look me in the eye’ to one another … but they’d say it to make sure that one wasn’t trying to poison the other.”

Now that’s funny.

For tickets or more information, call 779-1397 or 779-1465, or visit: www.kaleoalohachoir.org.

Source: [Simplicio Paragas of HonoluluAdvertiser.com]

2008 Beckmen Vineyards Estate Sauvignon Blanc (blogwinecellar.com)
Syrah Wine Tasting (amantdevin.blogspot.com)
The Grape Leaf Elevator Pitch Revised (slideshare.net)

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Radio will Never Go Away Just The People

lanai — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:51:58 +0000

Radio will never die. Radio is the only form of Communication and advertising you can do while Driving, taking a shower, having sex, you name it! You cant read the paper in the shower, while your driving, or taking a shower. Same go’s for Television.Radio is everywhere. People cant live with out it. If there is a Hurricane, tornado’s, black outs and natural Disasters, we all turn the radio on. I had the chance to broadcast during hurricane Iniki and it was like the world or Hawaii at least was sitting on my every word. They had nothing else to do except listen to me tell them whats going on, and where to go. Phone lines were lit non stop, dumb questions, great questions I was the Governor for that day. he next time you listen to the radio think about how much you use it, Appreciate it, I do.

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Twitter 101 Style

Administrator — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:53:53 +0000

When I started to use Twitter, I wanted to see how easy it was to use and why people would want to use it. Essentially it appears you can use Twitter for three reasons, firstly; for purely social objectives or secondly; and more commonly as a way of promoting your business your ideas and your brand or most likely a mixture of 1 and 2. The easiest way to describe Twitter is that it is text messaging on the Internet. You only have 140 characters to post a blog so there is an art in itself in getting your message over with this limitation. To quote Winston Churchill “I don’t have time to write you a short note so I will write to you a long one”. With such a limited number of characters you do have to think quite clearly about what you’re saying, which in itself is no bad thing.

So I’m assuming, as I do that you want to use Twitter to build up your network and promote your business is a few tips on how to get started. Firstly I would say that twitter is incredibly easy to use. But before you start you need to decide on your persona. That is to say do want your tweets to be of a personal nature or of a business nature. Perhaps we should look again at it in a slightly different way and ask yourself the question do you think that some of your personal messages would be inappropriate for your business contacts two receive, if you think the answer is yes then you should open two twitter accounts. If the answer is no, or probably no, then one will be sufficient.

Getting started is easy once you have signed up get your home page and it settings. Let’s not worry about pictures and suchlike at the moment, and concentrate on settings. The most important section is the one line bio. Give some thought about what you want to say, as potential followers will read this bio and use it to decide whether to follow you or not. A poorly written bio will not encourage followers.

Right we are now ready to go. So what do you say, at this point it’s a learning curve for you so I had just try a few different posts to see how comfortable you are with them. The most important thing is to be yourself, remember this is not a 5 minute wonder, potentially you’ll be using this medium for years to come. To build up your network you need to find some people to follow, and you need some followers. The best way to start, if you can, is use to connect with some of your friends who already use Twitter, that gives you a place to start.

Go to one of your friends pages, and on the right hand side you will see the word following and underneath that I will be a number of mini pictures, choose one at random and click on it. This will take you through to that person’s home page, read their Bio and if you like it, just below their picture you will see a radio button which says follow. Press it and you are now following that person and they are part of your network. Repeat this process as often as you like and you will quickly build up an understanding of those individuals who are of interest to you and those who are not. The current etiquette is that if you follow somebody, but they will for the most part follow you back.

For the first few days, don’t worry too much about growing your network, your best spending your time understanding how twitter works. You’ll get a sense from reading of the submissions and from that you should start to understand the best way for you to communicate via twitter. A couple of other ways to speed up the building your network is to use something called “twitter local”, download it and use it to identify people close to you who are on twitter. Follow them and as you are local they are very likely to follow you back.

So that’s a quick way of getting started. More on this when I have learned more myself.

Source: Doc Rock’s Blog - http://www.mrdocrock.com/2009/03/twitter-for-beginners/

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