Wine Tasting at Andrew Bae Gallery
300 W. Superior Street, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Asian Art
Theme: " East Meets West"
Wine paring with Korean Appetizers

Mr. Marcel Flori, our guide for the wine tasting....
Marcel began his adult life as an engineer, then in 1981 things changed and he began working as a Maitre D´Hotel at Dame Tartine in Paris, France. He immigrated to the United States and landed in Chicago where he became Captain of the Waiters at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in 1984. Marcel moved to the Park Hyatt Hotel and became their Sommelier in 1988. Chicago could not keep Marcel around though and he moved to Houston, Texas in early 1989 to work at the Four Seasons Hotel Restaurant and Confederate House. Marcel moved back to Chicago at the end of December 1989 to Le Titi de Paris where he settled in for 14 years as their Maitre D´Sommelier until he retired in 2003.
              Personal Awards and Recognitions:
• 3rd Best Sommelier of America – 1986 • Best Sommelier of the Midwest – 1986 • Master Knight in the order of the Knights of the Vine • Knight in the Association International des Maître Conseils en Gastronomie Francaise