Flagstaff House to Host Dinner With Winery Featured in Academy Award-Winning Movie 'Sideways'

Flagstaff House to Host Dinner With Winery Featured in Academy Award-Winning Movie 'Sideways'

BOULDER, Colo., April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Flagstaff House Restaurant will be hosting a wine tasting dinner on Wednesday, May 17 with Gray Hartley of the Hitching Post Winery located in the Santa Barbara wine country. Featured in the movie "Sideways," which earned five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Hitching Post Winery was founded by Gray Hartley and Frank Ostini, two local residents of the Santa Ynez Valley.

The wine tasting dinner will be held on Wednesday, May 17 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Flagstaff House Restaurant located at 1138 Flagstaff Road in Boulder, Colorado. Cost per person is $85 plus tax and gratuity. Seating is limited and reservations are required. Reservations can be made online at www.flagstaffhouse.com or by calling 303-442-4640.

"We are thrilled to be hosting this wine tasting dinner with Gray Hartley of Hitching Post Winery," said Scott Monette, General Manager & Partner of the Flagstaff House Restaurant. "The success of the movie 'Sideways,' which features the wines of Hitching Post Winery, will make this wine tasting dinner even more special. We look forward to Gray's insights into their wines as well as this award-winning film."

"We have an excellent four-course menu planned that will pair well with Frank and Gray's spectacular wines," added Mark Monette, Executive Chef & Partner of the Flagstaff House Restaurant.

Chef Mark noted that the following wines will be poured during the dinner:
* Reception -- Pinot Concepcion Rose
* 1st Course -- Cork Dancer Pinot Noir
* 2nd Course -- Hitching Post Clos Pepe Chardonnay
* 3rd Course -- Hitching Post Santa Rita Earth
* Dessert -- Big Circle Syrah

To view the full menu for this wine dinner, visit www.flagstaffhouse.com

ABOUT HITCHING POST WINERY:

Featured in the movie "Sideways," which earned five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Hitching Post Winery was founded by Gray Hartley and Frank Ostini, two local residents of the Santa Ynez Valley. Hartley is a commercial fisherman, and Ostini owns the Hitching Post Restaurant, which serves as the namesake for this wine. These two have been collaborating since 1981 when they made a single barrel of wine in their garage. Today, Hitching Post Winery produces nearly 4,700 cases and is considered one of the cult producers in the area. Most of their wines are aged in oak for 18 months on the lees, and then racked (carefully poured into another barrel to remove sediment) twice before bottling.

ABOUT THE FLAGSTAFF HOUSE RESTAURANT:

Since 1971, the Flagstaff House Restaurant has been providing award-winning mountainside dining with inspiring views of Boulder and the Front Range down below. Owned by the Monette Family since 1971, the Flagstaff House has one of the largest wine collections in Colorado, with more than 20,000 bottles and 3,000 selections. Starting in 1983, the Flagstaff House has won the prestigious Grand Award each year from Wine Spectator magazine, signifying the Flagstaff House as one of the top restaurants in the world. Other prestigious awards include the Mobil Four Star Award, the AAA Four Diamond Award and the DiRoNA Award. In 2004, the Flagstaff House became the first Colorado restaurant to be inducted into Nation's Restaurant News' Fine Dining Hall of Fame.

CONTACT: Shirley Thompson, President/CEO - shirley@ctapr.com
Nathan Bieck, Senior Account Executive - nathan@ctapr.com
CTA Public Relations
303-665-4200

Source: The Flagstaff House Restaurant

CONTACT: Shirley Thompson, President/CEO, shirley@ctapr.com, or Nathan
Bieck, Senior Account Executive, nathan@ctapr.com, both of CTA Public
Relations, +1-303-665-4200, for The Flagstaff House Restaurant

Web site: http://www.flagstaffhouse.com/

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