Exquisite pairings

(Front row) Swiss Ambassador Ivo Sieber, your columnist and Chilean Ambassador Luis Lillo Jr.; (back row) Gracita Sieber, French Ambassador Gilles Garachon and Toni Patchett.

It was quite an evening for guests at InterContinental Manila’s Prince Albert Rotisserie as they partook of Baron Philippe de Rothschild’s Bordeaux wines. 

The drinks, courtesy of Titania Wine Cellar Inc., a global importer of fine wines headed by Tita Trillo, paired well with the exquisite dishes prepared for the occasion. Guests enjoyed salmon tataki on avocado and cilantro prawn paired with Berger Baron Blanc, 2013, oven-baked whole roasted tenderloin in Bordelaise sauce paired with Mouton Cadet Vintage, 2012 and fruity-nutty chocolate slice paired with Mouton Cadet Sauternes, 2010.

Among the guests seen enjoying the cocktails and sit-down dinner were French Ambassador Gilles Garachon, Swiss Ambassador Ivo Sieber and wife Gracita, Chilean Ambassador Luis Lillo Jr. and wife Toni Patchett, Co Ban Kiat Hardware Inc. chairman and president Johnny Cobankiat with wife Aida and Jeremy Tiu and wife Coby’s managing director Charlene Cobankiat-Tiu.  

Guests were beaming and in good spirits! Thank you, Tita!

 

 

GREETINGS

Happy birthday to our celebrator today, Jenny Zamora.

Advance birthday greetings to Mameng Carag, Sen. Vicente Sotto III and Raul Teehankee, Aug. 24; golfer and theater magnate Bobby Yang and Summit Publishing boss Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng, Aug. 25; pediatrician Liaa Cojuangco-Bautista, Aug. 26; Bench boss Ben Chan, Aug. 27; Rita Dy and De La Salle University’s Joaquin “Chino” Rebano, Aug. 28; Oskar Atendido, businessman Ramon Cojuangco Jr., Michelle Tuason and Ysa Rufino, Aug. 29.

So, how was your week?

(For comments or inquiries, please e-mail me at jjlitton@indanet.com.)

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