MISCELLANY (Continued from page 18) Among the 31st Annual Central Coast Wine Classic sponsors are Archie McLaren, founder; John Paul Brown, Sara Miller McCune, Juliette Sponsell with Julie Ann Brown and Keith Mautino (photo by Priscilla)
Robin Bagget of Alpha Omega Winery; attendees Mark and Tere Fieldson, with Jennifer Lamb of Herb Lamb Vineyards (photo by Priscilla)
Barbara Tomicki, with honoree Beverly Aho, assistant to Archie McLaren, and William “Bill” Tomicki (photo by Priscilla)
Wine aficionados and vintners are Corinna Gordon, commentator and vintner Jim Clendenen (The Mind Behind) of Au Bon Climat; Blake Brown of Christopher Blake Brown Winery; Gretchen Lieff of Lieff Wines, and Jose Luis Nazar, vintner with Michelle Baggett of Alpha Omega & ToLosa Wineries (photo by Priscilla)
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Presenting hosts: Toby Rowland Jones, sommelier; symposium host Graham Gaspard of Black River Caviar; estate hosts Pat and Ursula Nesbitt; symposium host Xavier Barlier of Champagne Louis Roederer (photo by Priscilla)
served at the classic’s five-course opening dinner at the imposing Hearst Castle in San Simeon, which included area chefs Hutchings, James Sly, and James Siao of the Canary. The delightful repast was co-hosted by Graham Gaspard, president of Black River Caviar in Breckenridge, Colorado, whose pricey product, exclusively served on Seabourn and Holland America cruise lines, is farmed in Uruguay. Afterward, it was the turn of New York gavel girl DawnMarie Kotsonis to spring into action with the rare and fine wine and lifestyle auction selling an impressive 52 lots, including stays at New York’s Waldorf Astoria, dinner at Manhattan’s Nobu and the Tribeca Grill, a 12-day trip to China, including Beijing and Shanghai, a 10-day tour of
the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, recently visited by Prince William and his wife, Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, and an eight-day river cruise in Bordeaux. Among the torrent of tony types checking out the food, wine and polished selection of Ferraris on display were Mike and Anne Towbes, Gretchen Lieff, Bill and Barbara Tomicki, Tom Parker, Nina Terzian, Brian and Judy Robertson, Craig Case, Doug and Marni Margerum, Corinna Gordon, Arlene Montesano, Pat and Ursula Nesbitt, Peggy Wiley, and Wilson Quarre. Open Hart Social gridlock reigned when Saturday Night Live host Kevin Hart wed his fiancée, Eniko Parrish, on an estate just a tiara’s toss from Oprah Winfrey’s sprawling spread at the weekend after a two-year engagement. Hart, 37, who has hosted the MTV Video Music and BET awards, shared a family photo take during the big day, which the actor-comedian captioned “Harts what’s understood doesn’t need to be said!!! Live, Love, Love!” In the shot, Eniko, a model, was clad in a romantic, semi-sheer, white wedding gown as she struck a pose beside her husband, who divorced his first wife, fellow comic Torrei Hart in 2011 after eight years, with whom he had two children, daughter Heaven, 11, and son Hendrix, 8, who was his best man. Guests, who parked in the lot at
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TV comedian Kevin Hart ties the knot in Montecito (photo by Eva Rinaldi)
Montecito Union School, included Hart’s friend, rapper Ludacris, and his wife, Eudoxie Mbouguiengue. Clearly, not a laughing matter. On the House Santa Barbara Polo Club patron Tom Barrack, who owns the late Michael Jackson’s former Neverland Ranch, has just put his 23,515-sq.-ft. seven-bedroom, 13-bathroom Santa Monica mansion on the market for $46,500,000. Tom, founder of Colony Capital, who named his Piocho Ranch polo team after his Santa Ynez Valley spread, bought the sprawling property just two years or so ago for $24.5 million. Situated down a hedge-lined drive on 1.35 verdantly landscaped acres with 200 prime feet of bluff-top frontage that overlooks the oh so-exclusive Riviera Country Club, the neoclassical colonial style property was designed by mega-mansion specialist Richard Landry and has a double-height foyer with a sweeping curved staircase.
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