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Well, the party started two weeks
earlier, with a run up to Placerville to get some of the best libations,
wine wise, known to man.
Nello
Olivo wines.
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Jon Zwanziger poses with Ivan
Olivo and Michael Seewald
at the Nello Olivo tasting room, Placerville.
First I met up with collector Jon
Zwanziger in Sacramento and we drove up to the mountais east of there, to
the tasting room in Placerville. It's below a historical building, now a
restaurant, called the Sequoia Inn (pic above).
Jon was introduced to Olivo wines at the Placerville
tasting room first, and got to meet Ivan Olivo. Ivan was nice enough
to hold a wine tasting at last years Christmas party down here in Del Mar
last year. Was good seeing him again.
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Michael Seewald with Nello Olivo and
Jon Zwanziger at
Nello's wine cellar.
Then
we went to Nello's home/winery and picked up a few cases. Nello showed Jon
around (I'd been there before) and opened some special bottles for us to
try. Jon loved them all and ended up getting a case of assorted winners
too. My favorite was the 2011 Sagrantino.
It
is grown primarily in the village of
Montefalco Umbria, Italy, where Nello is from. (I've done a series in
Umbria, and had it there. Nello's runs $100 a bottle, and after tasting
it, you'll know it's worth it. I added a few bottles to my collection for
opening night, to treat my collectors/sponsors with- they are special and
deserve special treatment, right? Right... and well they loved it).
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The
Seewald's with sponsor Scott Dickson
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Michael and
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Michael & Valerie w/ Gloria Carlin, Steve Tut, Steve Carlin
and Leslie and Joe Irwin.
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Michael and sponsor of this series
John Cashman next to Michael's Ghost of Florence, Italy '89, a
major award winner.
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Michael and Valerie w/ sponsor
John Cashman and friend
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Multi-sponsor Dave Grell and wife Maribel
with Ted Whirledge & Michael
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Mr &
Mrs Lai pose with Nicholas MacConnell, one of our featured artists and
Seewald class grad.
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Rich
Beaumann and eight time sponsor Dave Grell
pose for Michael's 'group selfie'.
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Friends of the gallery pose with Nicholas' MacConnell
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Michael hangs with past Seewald grads Dusty and
Tish Wynne and Chef Marian.
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Michael with another class grad Jeffrey Sitcov and friend
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Collector Steve Carlin with gallery friend/writer Bob Bekins
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Collectors Dave Grell and Steve Carlin pose
with Michael Seewald
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Seewald class grad Brendan Laurs and his wife.
(New baby in stroller below).
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A
week later we had one of the sponsors from this series come in to finally
see her piece. Here she is...
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Jim
Doss with Argentina sponsor Becky Wergers and her new
Seewald piece, El Mana, Sante Fe, Argentina.
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