Special Wednesday | Barbera Rewritten — An Evening with Braida

Hosted by Jason

Details

🍷 Palo Alto Blind Wine Society

Wednesday — Special Off-Site Producer Immersion

📅 Wednesday, March 4, 2026
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 Vina Enoteca
700 Welch Rd. Suite 110, Palo Alto

🎯 Theme: Barbera Rewritten — An Evening with Braida

We’re mixing it up.

Instead of blind grids and deduction, this Wednesday we step into full producer immersion mode.

The dinner features Braida, the Piedmont estate that fundamentally changed how the world thinks about Barbera.

In the 1980s, Braida proved that Barbera could:

This wasn’t trattoria red anymore.
This was Barbera with architecture.

🍷 Wines Being Poured

Expect five wines, including:

• Montebruna – vibrant, lifted, classic Asti expression
• Bricco dell’Uccellone – their iconic, structured, age-worthy Barbera

Uccellone, in particular, is one of the benchmark wines that forced critics to reconsider the ceiling of the grape.

🎙 Special Host

The evening is led by Dr. Norbert Reinisch, Braida’s export manager and husband to owner Raffaella Bologna.

He’s known for being:

This won’t feel stiff or academic. It will feel immersive.

🍽 Food Context

Chef Madriaga will pair the wines with traditional Piemontese cuisine, meaning:

This is Barbera in its proper context — not isolated in a glass.

🧠 Format Shift

This will skew:

Think: immersion over grids.

🎟 Tickets

This is a ticketed dinner event hosted by the restaurant.

You’ll need to purchase your own seat directly through:

👉 Vina Enoteca Website
https://vinaenoteca.com

(Select the March 4 Braida Wine Dinner event.)

👥 PABWS Plan

If enough of us are interested, we’ll attend together and treat it as our Wednesday gathering for the week.

If it’s not your style, no problem — we return to our regular blind rhythm next week.

No pressure. Just an opportunity.

Let me know if you plan to attend so we can coordinate seating.

Jason