Power Entertaining with Food & Wine: What is Power Entertaining?
Program Titles
- Eddie Osterland, America’s first Master Sommelier
- Mastering the Fine Art of Professional Entertaining
- Passport to the Wines of the World
- Power Entertaining for Executives
- Eddie’s unique magic to corporate and private parties
- Create unforgettable culinary experiences with Power Entertaining
Eddie Osterland, America’s first Master Sommelier, is an internationally acclaimed expert in the culinary arena of food and wine.
Most of us truly enjoy hosting both business clients and friends at dinner as a way of being gracious, hospitable and sealing a new relationship, or celebrating a well established one.
We want to create an immediate, positive impact that will turn an ordinary experience into a lasting memory. Though, choosing the menu for the event can be daunting. Even more so, selecting the wines that will enhance the various foods can be vexing.
Eddie Osterland, America’s first Master Sommelier, can help erase entertaining worries. Eddie creates an evening event that no one will soon forget. Learn how to stand out from everyone else who haven’t discovered Eddie’s Power Entertaining skills!
He has performed his program/s and given educational and highly entertaining presentations on Power Entertaining with Food and Wine.
You will use Eddie’s lifestyle programs to strengthen customer relationships, design annual client-appreciation events and execute corporate events that go way beyond your expectations. You will realize how today, more than ever, you cannot affort to be naïve about food and wines — the international currency for connection.
Audiences everywhere know him as witty, approachable and non-intimidating. He gives you the knowledge and skill that you need to enjoy wine, and gives you confidence to entertain.
Eddie’s educational background evolved from a degree in behavioral psychology to graduating from L’Institut d’oenologie at Université de Bordeaux with the D.U.A.D. degree (diplôme d’aptitude a la deégustation des vins).
Eddie Osterland, MS is the first American to pass the grueling Master Sommelier Diploma.
Eddie worked as Director of Trade Education at the International Wine Center and was the wine editor for Restaurant Business magazine.
Eddie has worked with organizations and worked with leaders from a wide range of prestigious companies, including Citibank, General Mills, Proctor & Gamble, IBM…
He participated in several major corporate entertaining events at the Beijing Olympics, “Mastering the Fine Art of Professional Entertaining”.
What do you do when you’re at a fancy restaurant with a million-dollar business deal on the table, and the waiter hands you the wine list?
What matters right now, at this moment, is your wine IQ, and your ability to entertain your client in a way they will never forget.
‘Power Entertaining’ is using great wine, food and hospitality as the currency for creating unforgettable events, fostering strong business relationships, and instilling in people the desire to do business with you and your organization.
You can learn how to craft lasting business relationships based on the time honored principles of courtesy, generosity and old world hospitality.
Eddie’s Power Entertaining, Master Sommelier and America’s foremost wine and food program, outlines dozens of power entertaining tips that can make anyone a more effective host / hostess.
From corporate business events to private dinners with clients, Eddie can guide you every step of the way.
Power Entertaining: Secrets to Building Lasting Relationships, Hosting Unforgettable Events, and Closing Big Deals from America’s 1st Master Sommelier:
How to transform boring business meetings and sales functions into memorable social events that people will want to attend again and again.
You will build long-term business relationships based on the time-honored principles of courtesy, generosity and old world hospitality.
Success is always in the details, so master the finer points of entertaining before your next big business event.
Currently there are over a 120 master Sommeliers in the United States. Eddie Osterland was the first of them … a pioneer!
French trained-graduated from the University of Bordeaux, France with a degree in Professional Tasting (D.U.A.D-Diplôme Universitaire D’Aptitude A la Dégustation Des Vins)
Master Sommelier, Guild of Sommeliers, London England
Execlusive Master Sommelier, JetSet Magazine
Head Sommelier Hôtel de la Poste, Beaune France
Director of Trade Education for the International Wine Center
On behalf of companies: American Express, National Restaurant Association, Heublein Inc, Foods & Wines From France, Italian Trade Center
Wine Editor for Restaurant Business Magazine
Esquire Magazine – “Wine Advisor”.
On numerous cruise ships around the world, let’s meet
“Your Personal Wine Coach” – Eddie Osterland!
Degree in Psychology, Instrument-Rated pilot
Audiences everywhere know him as funny, approachable and non-intimidating. He gives you knowledge and skills that you need to enjoy wine, and gives you confidence to entertain impressively.
Your executives will be spending less money when entertaining clients, thanks to Eddie’s new Executive Entertaining Strategies.
How?
Their “comfort zone” will be expanded so as to explore the lesser known/equally good wines of the world that cost half as much.
Eddie will EDUCATE you by showing you how to be better buyer/s (Learn a new set of ABC’s: Anything but Chardonnay, anything but Cabernet!)
Eddie will enlighten you regarding how to choose “food-wines” (those that are more appropriate with food) and that will certainly heighten your dining experiences.
Your executives will enjoy a heightened “self-esteem” thanks to your newly learned abilities to discuss wine and food at a much more sophisticated level.
No longer will you let the restaurant take charge of the experience, but rather you will take charge.
The fun you will have just learning with Eddie “uncorked” adds an all important component of levity to your meeting.
A Session with Eddie Osterland will demystify wine and answer questions:
Improve business impact by incorporating new executive entertaining strategies.
Ensure an entertaining experience gaining these new insights while building strong team relationships within your company.
Empower your people by showing you how to choose/combine foods and wines with confidence, whether at client events, in their homes, or at restaurants.
Teach you how to taste wine like a Master Sommelier.
Why should all red wines be slightly chilled?
Which wines need to be aged?
Why shouldn’t you smell corks?
What is a “food-wine?”
What makes some wines very expensive?
Which are the best wines to combine with foods?
Staging and Technical Information:
•Lavaliere, wireless microphone
•Rear projection screen (with valence kit) positioned to right of Eddie 6 X 8 feet (up to 150 persons) 7.5 X 10 feet for larger groups (Lights behind screen must be darkened)
•Flip chart with black, blue and red markers (not a white board!)
•3 X 6 skirted table in front of room
•Sound mixer on same table patched to house system
•Liter of water (no ice)
•1 lemon (on butter plate)
•1 bottle of any red wine to be used as a prop
•Room set up classroom style (no round tables), spaced so that waiters can get through to pour the wines
•Room must be very cool!
Books by Eddie Osterland, MS
- Power Entertaining: Secrets to Building Lasting Relationships, Hosting Unforgettable Events, and Closing Big Deals from America’s 1st Master Sommelier:
Book Eddie Osterland, MS for your Event!