We always hear about wine and cheese, wine and steaks, wine and seafood… and the list goes on.
And have you ever wondered how they work? Or are you simply baffled by the variations that you do not know where to begin? We were once caught in such confusion too, and that is why we are partnering with Asher BWS to conduct a first ever Ladyironchef wine appreciation session where you will be exposed to the wonderful world of wines.
Learn all you can about the differences, discover the ideal pairings, and you will never look at your food the same way again. Because everything is just more wonderful with a glass of your favourite drink.
10 readers and their +1 get to join me for ladyironchef x Asher BWS’s wine tasting & appreciation event.
ladyironchef x Asher BWS Wine Appreciation Event
Date: 10 May 2014, 4pm – 6pm
Venue: Spruce, Phoenix Park (320 Tanglin Road)
Guests: This event is capped at 20 pax.
We are having a wine tasting & appreciation session at Spruce on 10 May (Saturday) 4pm. This event is free for readers of ladyironchef. 10 readers get to bring a friend each to join me to learn more about wine, courtesy of Asher BWS.
A wine master from Beam Global Asia will be conducting the wine appreciation session, to share and discuss with us about wine. During the event, we will be sampling endless glasses of wines from Brown Brothers wine collection, with cheese platters to go along.
Not to worry even if you know nothing about wine. The aim of the event is for us to come together to learn something new about wine, so everyone is welcomed! It will be a casual and fun afternoon filled with endless glasses of wines, fun and company.
To join me at Asher BWS’s wine appreciation event, you just need to ‘like’ Asher BWS’s facebook page, and leave a comment in this post to tell us why you want to come for the wine appreciation event. The contest ends on 30 Apr 2359hrs. The selected readers will be notified by email.
Updated on 2 May // The 10 selected readers are Claus, Phoebe, Matilda, Wei Zhe, Kelly, Jo, Ian, Marcus, Shireen and Cel Wong.
Asher BWS is a website which offers the most comprehensive ranges of beer, wine and spirits products online. It aims to educate and encourage the appreciation of alcoholic beverages among consumers, and at the same time, provide convenience by delivering the products to your doorstep.
Because it would be great to celebrate my graduation from university of four eventful-arduous-yet-demanding years! It’s finally time to move up the ranks to adulthood, and what’s better than to celebrate with wine & learn more about it? (:
Thank you for considering my entry, and have a great day ahead!
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Jaslyn
Hey brad, ah this sounds awesome. Would be great for an advance birthday toast for myself! Who doesn’t love wine (: hope to see you again after our Xmas feast at nydc!
I would really like to attend this event as it is not only a gathering with my buddies but it is also a celebration to a step we are going to take for our future endeavors after our national service. I think we this knowledge i am sure it will help us! cheers!
My husband loves wine and I am slowly becoming a convert too! It would be awesome to learn about wine pairing and more trivia about wine in general. Great added bonus is meeting you again! I still couldn’t stop gushing how humble and friendly you are after meeting you at nydc last December.
I have always been into wine appreciation since I started learning to enjoy drinking it. This would be a perfect opportunity for me to build up my knowledge about wine.
Thank you and I hope you have a wonderful day ahead.
Food and wine. What other reason should I have? Knowing how to eloquently pair them? Now that is just genius.
Hi Brad
Would be great to hear about and appreciate some new wines with the Mrs who loves wine. I am not quite there yet but this event would be a good way to start!
Cheers
S
I believed that this wine appreciation event will provide me with great exposure and allow me to gain valuable insights. In fact I believed there are much more to those deliciously tasting wine. I believed this will be a fun event to attend. Thanks for reading. Have great day
I’ve always have a flair for drinking wine but it’s the same usual suspect like Pinot Noir,Riesling and Chardonnay. I always wanted a chance to learn more about other wines but never had the chance to do so. So I hoping to take this opportunity to expand my knowledge about wine tasting and even wine pairing too!
I think it’s gonna be one experience I can never forget too and definitely one that I can make use whenever I host dinner parties for my friends and family.
I would love to join you for the event. I have recently discovered the joy of wine tastings – and trying to learn about wines and food-wine-pairing. I am running a catering service at a social welfare organization in Singapore – and what I learn about wines I will use to improve.
Btw: I am from the cold Scandinavia: Denmark. Been in Singapore about one year and love it. And all the lovely places to eat
Hope to join in!
Claus
Hi Brad, I’ll like to be there cos my partner and I simply love wine and hanging out with like-minded people. Cheers!
Have always love sparkling wine as well as white wine however have no time to learn how to actually appreciate them in-depth would love to have the chance to learn more about them with my buddy.
I have always wanted to know more about wine so that i can enjoy more time with my mother who is an oenophile. Hopefully if i get to attend this session, i would know what kind of wine to bring home to please her and hopefully both of us would get to enjoy each other company while drinking wine.
I would really love to be there to learn
New things & appreciates the wine tasting
Hi Brad,
I’d love to be a part of this informative event and get to know more about the types and distinguishing tastes of various wines available. I’ve visited plenty of wineries & vineyards in Australia and New Zealand during various trips through the years, the experiences were nothing short of amazing. I too, had wanted to pursue Wine Management studies in Australia two years ago but my dad didn’t allow me and I was so disheartened.
As a 20 year-old living in Singapore, it’s not easy to get any huge exposure to the knowledge behind vast varieties of wine types. People my age always talk about hard liquor but for me, it’s always wine. I enjoy it when people talk about the types of wine, the age of it & the acidity of the taste but I never had my chance to join such conversations as I’m not too knowledgable about this. If given the opportunity, this event itself would definitely be a great eye-opener.
Thank you, Ladyironchef & Asher BWS
My husband is a wine lover it will be a great occasion to grace the event with him and to learn on the pairing and widen my beginner level for wine! As I tried 1 in Paris and fall in love with it.
Love wine, especially Mosccato wine! And my best drinking pal is none other than my dad! Have been trying to learn about wine but due to it’s wide variety, not sure where to start! Hopefully I get the chance to learn from here.
Because it will be a great way to celebrate my graduation (finally!) from the university. Additionally, my mum loves wine so I think this definitely will make a great Mother’s Day gift.
Self confessed foodie here and an avid fan of your website. It is heartening to know that you will be organising the abovementioned event as it not only beneficial for readers like us who would like to take the opportunity to enhance our knowledge on food and wine pairing. It will be an excellent platform for like minded individuals to interact and share our passion for fine food
of cos a chance for us to finally meet the man of such great following is a big bonus!
Wine pairing is something that is always very intriguing to me. It would be my blessing to gain more wine knowledge together with you and melody.
Hello ladyironchef,
A really big thank you for sharing your passion with food lovers like myself!!! I’ve been a cafe-hopper for a while now and always trying out new food & drinks whenever you introduced/recommended on your blog. Hence, I would really love to expand my food & beverages radar even more when you open up this opportunity of wine tasting in this blog post!!! My bestie and I are really big fans of wines, but we still lack the knowledge of appreciating the tastes/smell of different kinds of wines that the industry can offer. So both of us would REALLY REALLY REALLY be extremely delighted if we were to be selected for this event! Fingers crossed and hoped to receive the good news!!! Thank you very much ladyironchef!!! ^_^
First of all, I am a really big fan of yours and have been following your blogs for many years now
With love,
Ser Lee
I would like to join you for this wine tasting as I’m a vino enthusiast and it’s always a pleasure to get to try more various different wines from around the world. Also I expect it’d be quite an experience to meet you and Melody and learn of your foodie travels and experiences, what more pair wines together!
I would like to attend this event with my date, as we are both wine lovers and it would be a great chance to see how cheese and wine pair up at the event. At the same time, it would be a great activity for him and myself to know each other better and gives me an idea of what kind of flavors he prefers.
It’ll be like killing two birds with one stone, and I think we would rather be drinking and exploring wine than to be doing something typical like shopping and watching a movie on a Saturday afternoon…
And I think his favorite type of white wine is Riesling. I hope I am right, but see, I could confirm this at the event if we get picked..!
Drinking wine is a good way to unwind and relax after a tiring day. Knowing how to choose the right wine and to appreciate the good ones will make it all the more enjoyable!
Marriage between wine and food – the epitome of bliss. would be an honor to savour and learn about how the style, structure of wine complements with the food.
Truthfully, I know nuts about wine appreciation. I am often curious of the purpose of twirling and sniffing before sipping the sparkling wonder. During my exchange to Europe, wines were cheap, and having them for dinner everyday was heavenly. However, this left me wondering whether I am drinking wine correctly. Is there any ritual to doing it? How to differentiate between good and bad wines? Does price matter?
This wine appreciation will definitely broaden my knowledge of wine and tame my curiosity.
PS: This session will be good as a birthday present too
Sorry for the last cut-off post, an accident made by the untame thumb
What better way to spend a Sat evening in the company of food lovers with an added bonus..Wine…!
Definitely looking forward to enjoying this with my loved one..
Since I arrived in Singapore 6 months ago I am very surprised to see that wine becomes more and more appreciated here, that’s great. I come from a wine area in Switzerland. Our wine is unfortunately not enough famous in Asia as the quantity we produce us not sufficient to be exported. Ok, that’s not the only reason… We drink also a lot, that’s true…
Anyway, I would be pleased to listen to the Wine Master from Beam Global Asia to know more about wine from other countries and share about Swiss wine 
Hope to see you there !
Because it will be a great chance to wine down – after an arduous term (we are studying architecture!). And I’d love to meet you in person!
Thank you
Hi! I would love to go for this event because i was exposed to a wide array of wine while i was staying in italy for 6 months last year. I tried many different varieties of wine, in italy and also in the rest of europe (e.g. france), but i would like to learn how to appreciate it better, through pairing it with the right food and also to learn how to discern the flavours of the wine better.
Hi Brad!
This was such an exciting post to read! Just basically because I just always wanted to go for wine tasting that much. Being a 20 year old nsf, I had always been a green horn when it comes to alcohol and wine appreciation. This sounds like an awesome opportunity for two nsfs (my bestie and I ) to learn a thing or two from the event!
Sounds like an awesome event to indulge before my overseas exercise in Thailand!! And maybe a pre birthday gift to my bestie and I ( both 30 may, mount e, same ward!! Can u believe it??? ) !!
Cheers in advance,
Dale lee
I would like to be one of the 10 going to the wine appreciation event because I would like to learn about the various wines and varieties and to be able to relate the reviews and ratings to my own taste buds.
I would love to be invited to attend Asher BWS Wine Appreciation Event, first of all, I want to congratulate U, Mr Brad Lau and Melody Yap for your engagement, somehow, I have been following you 2 in instagram and facebook for past 1 year, I really find you two are very compatible pair!! I want to attend the Wine Appreciation as I am a mountain turtle to wine, and of course it will useful for me if 1 day I can organise a mini wine appreciation on my wedding day, this will definitely be very cool and special for my dream wedding man instead of usual cocktail session! I would like to know what kind of wine to go with what kind of meat or cheese, I would love to meet the wine master from Beam Global Asia to learn from the making of wine! I really like to try all kind of wines especially sweet wine because my boyfriend, Tian Soon has a passion in wine too. He is always trying the wine samples whenever we travel in air planes or in other countries but is in convenient stores. And we are scared to buy in expensive stores or restaurants as we do not know if the expensive wines on the wines that not the one we describe. We want to learn how to tell the vintner so that he understand what wine are we describing and bring us the right wine that we want and also how to read winery names(which is the basic)!
Please let me be the one, bring me to appreciate Wine!! Thank U so much LadyIronChef!
Love to learn more about wine, definitely a great opportunity to understand the kind of wine I enjoy most so I’ll make the right purchase not just for myself but the people I’m gifting to.
Because it would be a privilege, and a great reward after so much time reading your blog! And because wine is the drink I love most and it is everything where I come from.
the only way to cure the nostalgia for my home country is to eat as much cheese as possible and to drink as much wine as possible… please heal me!
It would be awesome to spend this day with my fiancée learning more about wine and meeting new people. We never had the chance to learn about wine. Also, she would have just completed her practicum and this would be a nice reward for her. Thank you for this opportunity!
Hi Brad,
I think this will be an interesting event to be at as my friend and I will get to learn more about wine and its pairings, and at the same time, learn the art of wine appreciation. It’ll be a great experience and memory for all the attendees I believe.
Really hope that my post will get selected. =)
Thank you.
Regards,
Gwen Guan
hi, i’d love to join the wine tasting event, it will be a great opportunity for me to learn more about wine, i love to drink wine, but i got no experience about how to define a good wine.. i’m not good at tasting food.. well, it will be a great chance to attend the event..
thanks and regards,
Lydia
Hi! I’m a fresh grad here and totally new to wine. Being curious, I’ve attended a wine appreciation workshop conducted in my school a few months back and given this opportunity I hope to learn a little more about wine appreciation. The date of the event is just 2 days after my final paper before graduation, perfect time to relax and enjoy. Hope to be selected and thank you!
Because my godmother loves wine and mother’s day is the very next day, how could I not show her with love too?
Simply love everything about wine! <3
Coz we (bestie & me) wanna learn more and appreciate the HAPPY liquid better! ; )
Wish I can attend this event together with my buddy, so that in the future, I will know how to diffentiate the wine and how to pair it with the food, when hosting the company event. And of cos, it will be more fun when i have friends gathering again at the wine places.
Hi, we just received a vintec wine chiller as a gift to start our wine drinking journey and home entertaining
It be a great privilege to learn of which wines will be great to start.
My husband and I are wine-lovers and we would love to know more about the different types of wine.
I want to be selected to attend the appreciation class with my wifey! ever since we have the new born 8 months ago, there is not much opportunities for us to go on a date. this will be a good chance for us to unwind ourselves and at the same time pick up some tips on wine selection and appreciation of wine.
Love cheese. Love wine. Never really knew how to pair them. I think its fabulous how ASHER aims to educate the commonfolk and open our eyes (and tastebuds) to the whole new world of wine. Although they’re relatively new kids on the block, they seem to have a great concept and design. Would be really interesting to check out what they have to offer in terms of both products and service – a great option when I need to order wines for dinner parties/events!
Please pick me!
Because everything is just more wonderful with a glass of your favourite drink. And we need to find out which
Hi Ladyironchef
Please choose me!
My boyfriend, Ivan, loves wine and he was the one taught me how the twirl the wine glass
I would love to take this opportunity to learn how to appreciate wine as much as him!
Thank you!
Cheers,
Jo
Hi Brad!
I have been a avid reader of your site for many years, usually choosing to remain silent in these contests. However, this event seems too good to miss!
Firstly, I am a 21 year old student – average in most aspects, except for one thing – I have a big passion for wine. I’m no sommelier, but I’m definitely an enthusiast. My favourite grapes are Sauvignon Blanc (of the Marlborough, New Zealand variety) and Syrah (Rhone Valley, France), but none more so than the Chasselas which, sadly, is predominantly grown in French Switzerland and not exported much (Fournier, if you see this, Swiss wines are delicious and deserve to have a lot more fame than they currently do!)
Having said that, I have not, incidentally, had any formal training in wine. Any knowledge that I have of the subject have been accumulated through the years, from my personal experience in tasting, books, and (not forgetting) the internet. As much as I want to believe that I’m an enthusiast, every step I take in this direction, I get ever so intrigued by what I have come know, and increasingly humbled and curiuous about what I do not know. I believe that there are things which we can learn from such a wine class (taught by a wine master, no less), that we would otherwise never be able to.
Separately, I would like to highlight something Ms Phoebe Kwan wrote, with which I completely agree. As she rightly puts it, it is not everyday that we see people of our age group having appreciation for the fine pleasure that is wine-tasting, much less having a real interest in it. I find it, therefore, a pleasant surprise to learn that Phoebe, too, has a fascination with wine.
In light of this, I humbly seek your consideration in selecting me for this event. I would be very extremely grateful to both you, Brad; and Asher BWS should I be given the opportunity!
Regards,
Wei Zhe