A Wine and Food Experience at the Friar's Club New York featured Vanessa Boyd, Sommelier, Restaurant Adour, and George Sape. Ms. Boyd, who presides over the celebrated Manhattan restaurant's wine cellar, spoke on etiquette when ordering wine and interacting with sommeliers.

Mr. Sape, who is a former Chairman of The James Beard Foundation, one of five Americans elected as Membre d' Honneur to L'Académie du Vin de Bordeaux, and Managing Partner of Epstein Becker Green, spoke on what to consider in pairing wine and food.


L to R: Jolie Calella, UBS Wealth Management; Sucharita Iyengar, EBG; Meena Venkataramu, ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)


L to R: Frances Green, EBG; Traycee Ellen Klein, EBG; Linda Marra, Ladmar Associates Ltd.


L to R: Ellen Grasso, Forbes; Cathi Culbertson; Forbes, Mena Singer, Colgate-Palmolive Company


L to R: Sarah Eames, Trinity Health; Frances Green, EBG; Karen Kahn, KM Advisors


"Wine, Women and Confidence" – Wine tasting


"Wine, Women and Confidence" – Networking before presentation


L to R: Vanessa Treviño Boyd, Sommelier, Restaurant Adour, Speaker; Frances Green, EBG; George Sape, EBG, Speaker


L to R: Toretha McGuire, BlackRock; Joan Disler, EBG; Cathy Bolz, BlackRock; Katie Nedl, BlackRock


Deborah Shapiro, Deborah A. Shapiro, LLC (L); Christine Smith, Christine Smith Associates, Inc.


L to R: Leona Barsky, Employment Compliance Services; Andrea Schrager, Meadowlands Consumer Center; Diana Gonzales-Jones, Disney/ABC


"Wine, Women and Confidence" – Listening to Frances Green’s Introduction


Laurie Basch, cafemom.com (L); Alicia Bond, LePatner & Associates LLP


Vanessa Treviño Boyd, Sommelier, Restaurant Adour, Speaker


George Sape, EBG, Speaker


Frances Green, EBG


Vanessa Treviño Boyd, Sommelier, Restaurant Adour, Speaker (L); George Sape, EBG, Speaker


"Wine, Women and Confidence" – Listening to Vanessa Treviño Boyd, Sommelier, Restaurant Adour, Speaker and George Sape, EBG, Speaker


L to R: Amy Traub, EBG; Jennifer Whitney, EBG; Christine Kurtz, CCK Hamilton Corporation


L to R: Sabine Gotter, Bayern LB; Krista Schulte, Bayern LB; Patricia Helman, BBVA; Maritza Diaz, BBVA


L to R: Debora Cruz, Hampshire; Donna Dazzo, Designed to Appeal, LLC; Rebecca Cruz, Wall Street Project; Lauren De Lotto, De Lotto & Fajardo LLP


L to R: Judith Kraut, Fedcap Rehabilitation Services; Ronnie Lazar, HIAS; Lauri Rasnick, EBG


L to R: Jonathan Sloan, Lauber Imports; Vanessa Treviño Boyd, Sommelier, Restaurant Adour, Speaker; George Sape, EBG, Speaker


L to R: Linda Altschul, EBG; Rhonda Moll, MTA; Janet Barsky, Esq.


L to R: Maxine Neuhauser, EBG; Cindy Brody, Avaya; Jan Linsky, Sumitomo Corporation of America


L to R: Lori Moses, Rockrose Development Corp.; Sue Young, AIG Domestic Claims, Inc.; Alicia Bond, LePatner & Associates LLP


"Wine, Women and Confidence" – Success!

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