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Wine Weekends with Sommelier Marc Supsic
Wine lovers, here’s your chance to immerse yourself in a fun weekend of wine, food and adventure with a seasoned professional!
Relax and learn, as Diploma-Certified wine expert and, “Traveling Sommelier,” Marc Supsic comes to Mercersburg to lead a series of private wine tasting events, created just for the guests of the Mercersburg Inn. Marc’s approach is easygoing, non-judgmental, and simple; and whether you’re new to wine or a seasoned Epicurean, you’ll find yourself a bit more inspired and savvy.
Marc has been conducting these events for over five years now, and they’ve created quite a following in other locations. Many Wine Weekend attendees become close friends and return every year to catch up and, “wine-down,” with Marc.
About the Instructor
Marc Supsic is a certified wine & spirits pro, Sommelier, cook, educator and media personality living in the Philadelphia suburbs. His mission is to inspire people to make great wine, spirits and food, a part of their daily lives.
For the past six years, Marc has been sharing his passion, hosting private wine events around the Tri-State Area and the Mid-Atlantic. He also organizes large-scale, corporate events, and works with many B&Bs and restaurants to offer fun wine-centric experiences. He’s literally met and helped thousands of people to embrace the concept of, “Wine Living.”
Diploma-Certified with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust of London since 2012, he’s been featured in many prominent wine and lifestyle publications, interviewed on Internet and Terrestrial radio, and his videos are watched tens of thousands of times every month, on YouTube.
Whether in person, print, or on the screen; Marc brings you pro tips, tricks, and secrets on how to get more out of the glass, in the wine store, and in your daily life. Affectionately called, “the Rick Steves of Wine,” his fun and disarming approach is building a community of loyal fans and wine lovers - one sip, bite, and adventure – at a time.
Weekend Schedule
Friday
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Group Meet and Greet with wine and Hor D’oeuvres
Dinner is optional
Saturday
8:00 am - 9:30 am – Breakfast and Bubbles
11:00 am – Wine Apps Workshop: Marc will show the group how to build two simple apps that pair perfectly with red and white wines. Take these easy tips home and impress your guests at your next party!
12:30 pm - Lunch with wine
7:00pm – Wine Pairing Dinner
Sunday
8:00 am - 9:30pm - Breakfast
Prices
$175 per person, includes wine tasting, cooking session, educational session, and dinner with wine pairings. Price does not include tax or accommodations.
This will be a popular weekend, and this event requires a two-night stay. So be sure to book your room and make your reservation for our Food and Wine Weekend now!
French Cooking Classes
The Mercersburg Inn is proud to partner with the acclaimed L' Academie de Cuisine of Bethesda, MD to present a series of culinary weekends offering French cooking classes throughout the year.
The Class
The weekend includes two classes. You arrive Friday afternoon/evening and the first class starts directly after breakfast on Saturday morning. The second class starts after breakfast on Sunday. These are two intensive (hands-on) cooking classes and (of course) fabulous meals for you to enjoy are the results. Saturday night's Chef's Dinner, prepared by the Inn's Chef de Cuisine Dan Nowalk, is an elegant gala event.
This is not a class where you sit and someone teaches. This is a hands-on, fun weekend. Chef Francois will do a demonstration and then discuss the menu and recipes. Then the group splits into teams and each prepares one course of the lunch. This is for all skill levels. Got a question, want to know how to do something, Chef Francois is right there.
Your Instructor
Clarice M. (Dionot) Gutman
Clarice (Dionot) Gutman graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Saint Mary’s College. She began her culinary career with L’Academie de Cuisine as an Admissions Representative for the professional culinary and pastry arts programs. She was also responsible for introducing the professional programs to high schools in the tri-state area. Clarice has completed several continuing education programs at L’Academie de Cuisine. In the summer of 2004, Clarice was a stagiare at La Varenne in Burgundy, France working with famed culinarian, Anne Willan. She assisted in cooking classes, helped prepare meals and did recipe testing for Anne’s book French Country Cooking. She also completed a stage in the kitchen of 2 Michelin star La Madeleine Restaurant under the tutelage of Chef Patrick Gauthier. Upon returning, Clarice joined L’Academie as Event Coordinator and Programs Administrator for the recreational programs. She taught classes on kitchen tips and French cuisine. Clarice was promoted to General Manager for the Recreational School in Bethesda.
In 2016, Clarice left LADC to pursue her career with horses. She is currently the Equine Coordinator for a therapeutic riding program in Clifton, VA. She is also a Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor through PATH, Intl. She continues to cook at home and with her father, Chef Francois Dionot.
Weekend Schedule
Friday
Arrive at the Inn'
8:00pm - Group Meet and Greet
Saturday
8:00am-9:30am - Breakfast
10:00am - Cooking class Starts
12:30pm - Lunch with wine
7:00pm - Cocktails in the Tile Room
7:30pm - 4 course French Chef's Dinner
Sunday
8:00am-9:30am - Breakfast
10:00am - Cooking class Starts
12:30pm - Lunch with wine
Prices, Provisions & Policies
Classes: $250 per person (includes two lunches and wines)
Optional Chef's Dinner: $85 per person (includes gratuity and taxes), Alcohol is a separate charge.
Call early (717) 328-5231 for your chance to cook in the country with Chef Dionot - these weekends fill up fast!
Requires a minimum 2-night stay - Friday arrival
Upcoming Dates
TBD
Quilting Weekends
If you are reading this then we both know you cannot get enough of it! Exercise your obsession with everything quilting at an unforgettable weekend getaway in a turn-of-the-century Georgian Mansion.
Project on April 14th - 16th, 2023
Blooming Nine-Patch
Create a beautiful colorwash quilt that blooms right before your eyes using only 9-patches and squares. Strip-piecing makes sewing your quilt quick and easy!
Size: 66” X 72”
Technique: Machine Piecing
Skill Level: Confident Beginner
Project on July 7th - 9th, 2023
Forever Yours
Create the heirloom look of a double wedding ring design but use only straight-line piecing. This stunning pattern requires just a four fabric palette. Dimensional techniques make it fun and easy!
Size: 53” X 73”
Technique: Machine pieced
Experience: Confident beginner
Project on November 17th - 19th, 2023
The Mountains are Calling
Snow covered mountains glow in the light of the moon in this beautiful quilt. Create your own natural wonder using the Tri-Recs Ruler Set and your imagination! The outdoors awaits you…
Technique: Machine Pieced
Skill level: Intermediate
Size: 51” X 60”
Meet Frankie Crosby!
Frankie lives in Hanover, PA a south-central Pennsylvania community. Hanover is rich in history –they’re next door neighbors with Gettysburg - and have an abundance of antique curators and quilt shops!
Her quilt journey started over 30 years ago when her sister and she were looking for a hobby they could enjoy together. Their first adventure was a Quilt-in-a-Day log cabin quilt class taught at their local Agriculture Center. There were no rotary cutters at that time so all their strips were torn – LOTS OF STRINGS! Of course, It took them more than a day – but they had been bitten by the quilting bug…
She belongs to Everybody’s Quilt Guild in Westminster, MD. They are a very active guild with a quilt show every other year and a quilt bingo each spring which funds a scholarship for a graduating senior who will be pursuing studies in the textile field. They make Linus Blankets for children in need, breast cancer pillows for men and women to use after mastectomies and Quilts of Valor blankets for veterans. She is lucky to be part of a group of very talented individuals who are willing to share their wealth of knowledge.
Her favorite part of quilting is the FABRIC – all aspect of fabric! Whoever thought running your hand across bolts of fabric in a quilt shop could be so satisfying? Batiks are her go-to favorites and she thinks lime green is a neutral! She has a large stash – who doesn’t – and enjoy using her accumulated fabrics in scrappy projects.
She enjoys trying new ruler projects, paper piecing, machine applique’, raw edge applique’ and am up for a challenge or mystery… She likes to machine quilt her smaller projects but leaves her larger quilts to be quilted by a professional!
Frankie has been teaching beginners and beyond for over 10 years and enjoy seeing another quilters’ vision come to life, whether it is in their fabric choices or in their personal touches. She always encourages her students to enjoy the process, finish their projects, include a label and use your work of art! There would be no greater joy for her than to know that a quilt she gave to someone was loved to pieces. That meant that the quilt was used often and as it was intended.
Quilting is truly a labor of love…
Schedule
Friday
- 5 pm - Social hour and Show and Tell. Meet Frankie and the owners, Steven and Tomi. Enjoy a glass of wine, beverages, and snacks.
- 7:00 pm - Dinner in Byron's Dining Room. Chef Dan Nowalk will prepare special menu for the group. We have a full bar with a selection of wine, beer, and liquor.
Saturday
- 8 am - Our delicious breakfast is served.
- 9 am to 12 pm - Quilting Session. The Great Room of the Inn will be prepared for the classes. The room is bright, big, and beautiful. Beverages are served during all sessions.
- 12:30 pm - Lunch is Served.
- 2 pm to 5 pm - Quilting Session
- 7:00 pm - Dinner is Served.
- Optional - "work alone time" is available until 11:30 PM. If instead you decide to relax for the rest of the night, you may enjoy the game room with pool table, air-hockey, and other games and puzzles.
Sunday
- 8 am - Another delicious breakfast is served.
- 9 am to 12 pm - Quilting Session
- 12:30 pm - Lunch is Served.
- 2 pm to 3:30 pm - Last Quilting Session.
Guest Rooms
Let's talk comfort. Our beds are fantastic! Every room is unique like your quilts are - take your pick. The best linens you can imagine, down pillows and comforters to embrace you, the softest robe and towels to ever touch you! Every room has a queen or king bed with a private bathroom.
Prices, Provisions & Policies
The price for this weekend is $499 per person and worth every penny!
Add a 2nd quilter in room with meals - $395
Add a Non-quilter in room with meals - $295
Includes room for 2 nights single occupancy, 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 dinners, beverages, gratuities - single occupancy - excluding taxes, wines, beer, and spirits. One type of lunch is for everyone.
For this event only, all rooms will be sold at the same discounted price on a first-come first-pick basis.
**We provide tables, ironing boards, and irons. You bring the sewing machine and the rest of your tools. Frankie will email you a list of required materials.
There must be at least one person per room participating in the quilting class retreats. Full regular room rates will apply if there is not at least one person per room participating in the quilting class. The class and dining package are not available unless there is one participant per room.
Upcoming Dates
April 14th - 16th, 2023
July 7th - 9th, 2023
This event is full.
November 17th - 19th, 2023
This event is full.
Midweek Quilting
Join us for Midweek Quilting at the Inn!
July 17th - 19th, 2023
Prism Kaleidoscope Pattern
September 18th - 20th, 2023
Garden Twist
Meet Kathy Winslow Gardner!
Kathy resides in Wilmington, DE with her husband, Jim and Yorkshire terrier, Shadow. She took her first quilt class in 1990 when she was living in Everett, WA, as a challenge while she was exploring her creativity.
“I quickly fell in love with fabric, texture and color and I never stopped quilting.” In 2000 she became a fabric and notions rep and sold fabric for 12 different companies. Her pattern, “Delaware Diamonds” is a perfect example of her love for playing with fabric and texture to achieve different effects and patterns within the same block. Kathy’s work has been published in “Patchwork Pantry” and McCall’s Quilting.
Kathy challenges you to come quilt, play and explore fabric with her to create your own unique style.
Guest Rooms
Let's talk comfort. Our beds are fantastic! Every room is unique like your quilts are - take your pick. The best linens you can imagine, down pillows and comforters to embrace you, the softest robe and towels to ever touch you! Every room has a queen or king bed with a private bathroom.
Prices, Provisions & Policies
The price for this midweek event is $499 per person and worth every penny!
Add a 2nd quilter in room with meals - $395
Add a Non-quilter in room with meals - $295
Includes room for 2 nights single occupancy, 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 dinners, beverages, gratuities - single occupancy - excluding taxes, wines, beer, and spirits. One type of lunch is for everyone.
For this event only, all rooms will be sold at the same discounted price on a first-come first-pick basis.
**We provide tables, ironing boards, and irons. You bring the sewing machine and the rest of your tools. Kathy will email you a list of required materials.
There must be at least one person per room participating in the quilting class retreats. Full regular room rates will apply if there is not at least one person per room participating in the quilting class. The class and dining package are not available unless there is one participant per room.
Cheese Making
Cheese Making Weekends in Pennsylvania -- with Three Shepherd's Cheese
$395 per person plus room - Requires 2 night stay.
This will be a popular weekend, so be sure to make your reservation now.
Call us at (717) 328-5231 to make your reservation.
Upcoming Dates
March 17th - 19th, 2023 - Friday arrival for 2 nights stay required
November 3rd - 5th, 2023 - Friday arrival for 2 nights stay required
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