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Press Kit Wine Shipping Information For Chicago Amount of Wine To Pour at The Grand Festival
Arrival and Check-in Procedures for the Grand Festival Sandwiches and Food at the Grand Festival Insurance
Organizing Pinot Events Outside of Pinot Days Hotel Information For Chicago  
     
 

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Wine Shipping Information For Chicago

 

SHIPPING INFORMATION FOR PINOT DAYS CHICAGO 2008

Following is shipping information for Pinot Days Chicago 2008.  Please follow instructions to the letter so that your wine ends up where you want it!

 

GRAND FESTIVAL WINES

Ship to:

EAST BANK STORAGE
Attn: PINOT DAYS 2008
429 W. Ohio Street
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 644-2000

Manager:  Gordana Peric

NOTE:   You must clearly mark the outside of each box that you pack, as follows: 
 
“Pinot Days Grand Festival, Saturday, November 15th, (Winery Name).”

 

WINEMAKER DINNER WINES

Please ship directly to Bin 36.  (NOTE:  You are not assigned until your winery name appears on the Pinot Days website, listed under “Pinot Days Winemaker Table Hop Dinner.”) 

Ship to:

BIN 36
Attn:  SHELU BHANDARI
339 North Dearborn (Marina City)
Chicago, IL 60610

NOTE:   You must clearly mark the outside of each box that you pack, as follows: 
 
“Pinot Days Winemakers Table Hop” Dinner at Bin 36, Friday, November 14th, (Winery Name).”   Please indicate on the box whether you are a “Pre-Dinner” or “During Dinner” Winery. 

 

IN-STORE RETAIL TASTING WINES

Please ship directly to the retail store to which you have been assigned.  (NOTE:  You are not assigned until your winery name appears on the Pinot Days website, associated with a particular time and retail location.)  Retail store addresses and contacts are as follows:

Savway Fine Wines & Spirits, Oak Brook Store
ATTN:  Emmet Malloy, Mary Claire Malloy
3821 S. York Rd
Oak Brook, IL 60523

Savway Fine Wines & Spirits, Geneva Store
ATTN:  Richard Wallace
515 W. State Street
Geneva, IL 60134

Perman Wine Selections
ATTN:  Craig Perman
802 W. Washington St.
Chicago, IL60607


Marion St. Cheese Market
ATTN:  Julie Spence
101 North Marion Street
Oak Park, IL 60302

The Bottle Shop
ATTN:  Amy Lafontant
1138 Central Ave
Wilmette, IL 60091

 

NOTE:   You must clearly mark the outside of each box that you pack, as follows: 
 
“Pinot Days Retail Store Tasting at: (Write store name here) on: (Write date and time here), (Winery Name).”  Do not miss mark!

 

CAUTION:  Boxes that are labeled incorrectly or incompletely are likely to end up in the wrong place.  Please take care in labeling.

 

  
 

Amount of Wine To Pour at The Grand Festival

Please do not consider this suggestion as fact, the amount of wine to pour at events is not a science and you should use your own discretion. If you are pouring about 1.25 ounces per pour, you have 20 pours per bottle or 240 pours per case. There will be approximately 1,300 in attendance at the Chicago 2008 Grand Festival. If you are pouring 1 wine, I would bring 1 case. If you are pouring 2-3 wines, I would bring 2-3 mixed cases.

 
 

When To Arrive At the Grand Festival

CHECK-IN TIMES:  You may check in any time after 8:30am.

GENERAL CHECK-IN INSTRUCTIONS: Volunteers will be waiting in the loading area with hand trucks to help you to your table. However, you will not be able to enter the festival until you pick up your name badge and wristbands. You may lock your car at the loading spot and pick up your badges before you unload; just follow the direction of the volunteers as to where to leave you car. Lock it please, but do not worry - we will have professional security present in the loading area. If you have used a taxi or public transportation, please have the volunteer escort you to the check-in area and remain with you until you receive your badge and exhibitor information. The volunteer will then escort you to your table.

Set up your table as you wish. You may display order forms, mailing list sign-up sheets, flowers (but not too fragrant, please) and winery brochures. We will have one chair, a spit bucket, a corkscrew, towel, and water pitcher waiting for you at your table. If you have any issues or needs, Winery Assistant Volunteers will be wandering around for the sole purpose of assisting you. They will be wearing burgundy Pinot Days shirts and should be easy for you to identify. When you leave to park your car, please choose the spaces furthest from the pavilion so that your customers may be the lucky ones to have the preferred spaces.

Two staff members may attend the festival free of charge. You must enter the names of the two individuals attending if you have not already done so. You may check this by referring to your Festival Registration Status page. Any additional staff will be allowed to enter with the exhibitors but must pay full ticket price. You may purchase additional tickets for staff by using the link on your Festival Registration Status page and clicking on "Festival Logistics."

Also, help yourself to coffee available to you at the entrance of the event.
 
 

Sandwiches and Food at the Grand Festival

Sandwiches will be available for purchase in the facility. In additional, 15 specialty food purveyors will be serving samples, and we will offer our usual bread and cheese as palate cleansers.

 
 

Insurance

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Organizing Pinot Events Outside of Pinot Days

We cannot plead loudly enough on this – please do not organize or attend pinot events that conflict with the Pinot Days events.  A few folks did this in New York (with good intentions), and it diminished attendance at our events. If you are tempted to take advantage of the fact that a large number of pinotphiles will be in town for Pinot Days, stop and consider: They are in town for Pinot Days, and if the Pinot Days events are not well attended, then we cannot produce them.  Organizing an event that is focused more narrowly on one’s own winery and that runs concurrently with a Pinot Days event, though perhaps convenient, diminishes the very thing that draws all those pinotphiles to spend that weekend in the location in the first place.  Pinot Days is for you – please support it!  Thanks in advance for your consideration on this. 

Chicago Hotel Information

The Whitehall Hotel, Chicago.  We have held 40 rooms for participating Pinot DAys wineries at the Whitehall Hotel (www.hotelwhitehallchicago.com). The hotel is located in the middle of the Gold Coast, one block west of the Magnificent Mile and near the Navy Pier. It is a four star hotel, and rooms usually go for upwards of $300...but not so for Pinot Days producers.

The general manager (Thomas Belelieu) loves pinot and has agreed to offer us the rate of $169/night. We are only able to hold 40 rooms, and only until October 15th; the sooner you book, the more likely you are to get one of them. Call 312-944-6300, ask for "in house reservations," and say you are with "PINOT DAYS CHICAGO."  Feel free to leave a bottle of pinot for Thomas Belelieu as a thank you for his continued support.