Great Wine and Great Reads.
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Ensure that your enjoyment of this evening extends beyond tonight with this fantastic basket! Perfect for a quiet evening, you can now experience the delights of great wine paired with a great book on art and artists. Highlighting wine featured at this year's Vintner's Reception, this basket contains one bottle each:
- Frank Family Vineyards, Cabernet Sauvignon, 2015
- Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Sauvignon Blanc, 2017
- Rombauer Vineyards, Merlot, 2016
- Louis Jadot, Saint-Romain, 2016
To drink alongside of four books about the art world and the Impressionists:
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism, by Ross King: the definitive history of the first decade of Impressionism.
The Private Lives of the Impressionists, by Sue Roe, which features vivid accounts of Paris's leading artists, working separately and together, challenging and inspiring one another.
The Collector's Apprentice: A Novel, by B. A. Shapiro, a "noirish page turner" set against the backdrop of 1920s Paris, with characters inspired by famed museum founder, Albert Barnes.
The Art Forger: A Novel, by B. A. Shapiro, a contemporary thriller based on the thefts of 13 masterpieces from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum.
Donated By Mary and Dennis Helf