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Wine Tasting with You 🍷

Published 7 days ago • 1 min read

Hi!

Greetings from an erratically springy/wintery NYC!

I gave tasting last week for my friend Meron Langsner at the real estate firm of Cooper & Cooper, fifty-three floors above the metropolitan fray. In honor of our vertiginous location, I themed the tasting around high altitude wines, taking us on top of the world in wine growing region of Europe and beyond, philosophizing about struggle and slope along the way.

My tastings are part education from my years on the floor in fine dining as a certified sommelier and part poetic musings, all brought together with my sensibility as a performer. The hope is we all end up with new friends -- in and outside of the glass.

While the musical fruit of a new album and "Beyond the Frame" continue to ferment (exciting news coming soon!) I look forward to doing more of these events in support -- be it a bespoke tasting for your group, or choosing from my menu of thematic tastings I've produced successfully.

If you'd like to discuss how we can make something lovely like this happen for your business or group, just reply to this email. I'll be delighted to talk to you.

"It was such a special evening and you truly made the night. You kept everyone, engaged, charmed, informed, and entertained from start to finish. Thank you so much. " -Eric Brown, Cooper & Cooper

Oh, and I'm so happy to be joining Ted Nash's big band at Dizzy's once more for Ted's ekphrastic wonder "Portrait in Seven Shades" on April 6th, where I'll appear to sing the song Ted wrote for van Gogh. What Ted's suite does to paint with sound is its own masterpiece, you'll be glad you came.

Till next pairing,

Kristen

kristenleesergeant.com


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Jazz & Juice

NYC based jazz vocalist/songwriter/sommelier

a poetic pairing of wine & song & updates from my myriad projects in NYC

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