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Kim Kardashian has been listening to @Lanaithedj about “Look Me In The Eye”

lanai — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:57:03 +0000

Kim Kardashian has been listening to @Lanaithedj about “Look Me In The Eye” when you toast. Check her school Leno and Carvey.

Be on the look out for the New Edition of “Look Me In the Eye” Wine this Summer. We just got back from Santa Ynez, CA checking on the wine and let’s be corny and say it was “Barrels of Fun” and tasting better than last years vintage.

Thanks Kim

Wine Tasting in Santa Ynez (discover.winecountry.com)
White House state dinner: the menu (telegraph.co.uk)

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Fresh Look: Wine Tasting and Networking Event

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

Order tickets via Eventbrite: http://freshcafe-efbevent.eventbrite.com

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.

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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Gary Vaynerchuk Reviews Lanai’s Wine “Look Me In the Eye”

lanai — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:42:09 +0000

By: Doc Rock

Thanks to @Neenz of AllTop and Pono Media and @GaryVee of Wine Library Tv for tasting and reviewing my parter in crime’s Lanai’s wine “Look Me in the Eye“. This is a big win for us ad we really appreciate the love.

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. The Grenache from Kaena, which means “potential for greatness” in Hawaiian, is the star of his proprietary lineup, but the Hapa (another Hawaiian term, meaning “of mixed descent”) is a delicious blend of Syrah, Grenache and Mourvèdre. Sigouin purchases grapes solely from Santa Barbara County vineyards

Mikael Sigouin

Grant “Lanai” Tabura

Look Me in the Eye is Available in Hawaii and California at these fine locations:

JNJ

HASR

The Liquor Collection

Neiman Marcus Epicure

Outrigger Canoe Club

Pacific Club

D Vine

Roy’s Hawaii Kai

Ruth’s Chris Waikiki

Ruth’s Chris Rest. Row

The Wine Stop

Stage

SWAM

Tamuras Waialae

Whole Foods

FS Manele

Joe’s Bar and Grill

Hotel Hana

Molokai Wine and Spirits

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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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Wine Refrigerators – How They Preserve and Enhance Wines

docrock — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:31:52 +0000

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If you wish to properly store your wines there are several choices available depending on your particular needs. A small, inexpensive wine collection doesn’t necessarily require an elaborate storage solution that a large valuable collection does.

A wine refrigerator allows you to store your wines at the optimum temperature so when opened they taste their absolute best. Properly storing your wines is necessary because wine continues to develop even after it has been bottled. When you store them at the right temperature you are ensuring that they mature at the proper rate and are also well preserved. Wine stored at too low a temperature fails to mature while wine stored at too high a temperature matures too quickly.

One choice of wine refrigerator that can save you space and money is a dual temperature zone refrigerator. This type of refrigerator is designed to store red wines and white wines. The reason you want to separate them is that red and white wines require different temperatures for optimum storage. A dual-temperature refrigerator will house a collection of reds and whites at the perfect temperature for each type. This saves money since you don’t have to have two refrigerators for your collection.

There is another type of wine refrigerator available that is designed for a completely different purpose. This type maintains the correct serving temperature for wines. The best temperatures for serving wines are quite different than those required for storage.

There is yet another type which combines the functionality of the previously mentioned refrigerators. A three-zone refrigerator has three separate compartments – a storage compartment for white wines, a storage compartment for red wines and a compartment for serving.

No matter what type of refrigeration system you choose it’s a great feeling to know that your wines are properly stored. In another article we’ll contrast wine refrigerators with wine cellars, which for some collectors may be a better storage solution.

The perfect house warming gift for wine lovers chills (grapeinabottle.com)
Are Wine Coolers Suitable for Long Term Storage? (wine-storage.blogspot.com)
Specific Wine Tempeatures (whywineblog.com)
Do you really need a wine cellar? (corksavvy.com)

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Comic Asks To Look Him In The Eye

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

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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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