Savor Dallas 2009: Wine Tasting Seminar
March 7
, 2009
Presenter: Robert Bower
-Robert M.S. Bower, Porto Category Manager, The Fladgate Partnership Portfolio, Kobrand Corporation Inc. - Robert Maurice Syndercombe Bower was born on the 3rd of June, 1975, in Oporto, Portugal. Raised in Portugal until he was 8 years old, he was then sent to England to continue his education. After Eton College he went on to Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, in London. At Imperial he graduated in Biology and, a year later, obtained a Masters in Molecular Biology and Virology.
After leaving university he worked for 3 years in Cambridge for the pharmaceutical company, Novartis, thereafter he decided to return to his true passion for Porto. Before returning to Portugal, he continued his education with marketing, languages and wine tasting courses, both in the United Kingdom and France.
Robert Bower joined the Port wine industry in the Spring of 2001. He is now the 8th generation of the Yeatman line, through his grandmother, to be involved in Porto. His responsibilities encompass the management of the Fladgate Partnership portfolio in the United States working for the importer of Fine Wines, Kobrand Corporation Inc. He is now based in New York where he hopes to remain for a few years before returning to Portugal.
The Fladgate Partnership is made up of three of the most historic and highly regarded Porto houses: Taylor Fladgate, Fonseca, and Croft. Their portos are produced with the attention to quality that is the standard to which all other Port wine houses aspire. It is a family-run company with the present members representing the 8th generation of the Yeatman family, originally from the Port house of Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman, now with over 315 years of history.
Places to eat:
Drink Specials:
- Adair's Saloon: 4 pm - 8 pm: $6 pitchers, $1.75 singles, $2.25 cans
- Monica's Aca y Alla: 11 am - 3 pm: $1 house margaritas & $1.50 mimosas
- State & Allen Lounge: 11 am - 8 pm: $1 off all drinks
- Fuse Restaurant and Lounge: 4 pm - 7 pm: $3 domestics, $3 frozen drinks, $3 white wine, $3 red wine, $1 sake / $1 sushi
- Dragonfly: 11 am - 2:30 pm: $15 bottomless mimosas
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