Bangkok, Thailand, April 12, 2022 / TRAVELINDEX / To celebrate the impressive rise of female sommeliers in the Kingdom, Madison Steakhouse at the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel invites wine lovers to an exquisite five-course menu with wine pairings and five female sommeliers. The event, "An Ode to Passion," will take place on Friday, April 29, 2022, and aims to promote the future of the wine industry in Thailand and help female wine experts gain greater recognition.

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From the wine selection to the food presentation, you can expect a distinctly feminine touch. Five female wine experts from some of Bangkok's leading gourmet restaurants will expertly guide you through their selection of beverages, explaining the origin and flavor profile of each wine. Working closely with the chefs of Anantara Siam, they have created perfect food pairings for five mysterious wines, each associated with a different flavor category: water, wood, fire, earth, and air. By revealing the labels only upon serving, the organizers put the spotlight on the sommeliers, not the wineries.

An amuse-bouche of Atlantic sea bass carpaccio, Espelette pepper and Prosecco granita prepares the palate for the first appetizer: river trout confit, served with sorrel and caviar beurre blanc, accompanied by "River Reflection", a mysterious wine selected by Sudarat Jankaew, an established beverage ambassador and sommelier.

The next wine of the evening, a complex white wine from Piedmont, will be served with an appetizer of crispy king prawns with lemon-chili paste and shallot confit espuma. Prakaydaow Phoohuatalat, assistant restaurant manager and sommelier at one of Bangkok's finest five-star restaurants, will be present to explain her choice and guide guests through the tasting notes.

Chanidapha Rakpirom, sommelier and restaurant manager at Ki Izakaya, selected a wine titled “A Feminist on Fire.” This elegant red wine was served with succulent roasted duck breast with parsnips and cherry-duck jus. The second main course, pithiviers with venison and foie gras, celery puree, and blueberry sauce, was accompanied by a complex, earthy, yet powerful red wine recommended by Atchara Wongthai Palleros, sommelier at Central Wine Cellar.

The whole experience is rounded off by a perfectly balanced combination of pink chocolate, mulberry and mint compote, strawberry crumble, rose gel and an exquisite champagne with notes of flowers and red fruits, selected by Nutawan Jumpanak, wine expert at the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel and Thailand's first female Best Sommelier in 2019.

The wine menu “An Ode to Passion” costs THB 4,490++ per person including wine pairing and will be served on Friday, April 29, 2022 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm at the Madison, Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel.