{"id":16005,"date":"2017-04-30T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T17:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=16005"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T17:22:32","slug":"world-tour-of-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/world-tour-of-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Says Spring Like a World Tour of Ros\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM6-e1493571249234.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16007\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM6-e1493571249234-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM6-e1493571249234-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM6-e1493571249234-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM6-e1493571249234.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM6-e1493571249234-1300x1733.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Ros\u00e9 season is upon us and we couldn\u2019t think of a better way to kick it off than with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriott.com\/hotel-restaurants\/chisr-renaissance-chicago-downtown-hotel\/staytion-market-&amp;-bar\/5732263\/home-page.mi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Staytion Market &amp; Bar<\/a>\u2019s World Tour of Ros\u00e9 event. We stopped to smell the ros\u00e9 (15 to be exact) from different parts of the globe including Spain, South America, Australia, South Africa, France, Greece, and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Staytion Market &amp; Bar, located in the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel at 1 West Wacker Drive, is a chic downtown restaurant and bar, loaded with seasonal eats and creative craft cocktails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16011 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM2-e1493571413157-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"world tour of ros\u00e9\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM2-e1493571413157-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM2-e1493571413157-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM2-e1493571413157.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM2-e1493571413157-1300x1733.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>We checked in and helped ourselves to samplings of the 15 different ros\u00e9s set up at three different tables, with wine experts to pour and describe each varietal. We received background information about each and every wine and all of our questions were kindly answered.<\/p>\n<p>And these wine experts really knew their ros\u00e9s! We wanted a refill and forgot the name of the wine\u2026 one of the experts asked what region, sniffed it out and knew exactly which wine it was in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Our favorite ros\u00e9 was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skouras.gr\/us\/wines-2\/rose\/zoe-rose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoe<\/a> from Greece. It was a pleasant surprise and had a nice dryness to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16012\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM3-300x131.jpg\" alt=\"world tour of ros\u00e9\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM3-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM3-600x262.jpg 600w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM3-1024x447.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM3-1300x567.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RoseWorldTour_UM3.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Guests came to mingle, sip, and relax. There\u2019s plenty of seating at Staytion, including the bar, the library, mixology station, stadium seating, and artist studio. There was even live music playing, featuring easygoing acoustic hits. People walking through the lobby even came to join in on the World Tour of Ros\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Light food pairings were provided and were absolutely perfect for the tasting, with options like pequillo pepper hummus crostini and caprese skewers, a perfect snack but not overly filling. We definitely went back for seconds because they were so tasty (and many others did too!) This was an ideal spring event and a\u00a0great way to kick off ros\u00e9 season!<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been to Staytion Market &amp; Bar? If not, pay this chic downtown destination a visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ros\u00e9 season is upon us and we couldn\u2019t think of a better way to kick it off than with Staytion Market &amp; Bar\u2019s World Tour of Ros\u00e9 event.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1553,6,26127],"tags":[540,1784,633,2151],"class_list":["post-16005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-category-bars","category-category-restaurants","category-category-wine-bars","tag-chicago-hotels","tag-downtown","tag-hotel","tag-rose"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nothing Says Spring Like a World Tour of Ros\u00e9 | 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