The Art of Good Taste
Each year, The Art of Good Taste events boast three live
auctions, three silent auctions, two elegant wine dinners, and more
than 25 exclusive wine tastings and dinners across the city throughout
the year.
Growing from a single wine auction to a series of seven events that attracts national attention,
The Art of Good Taste now includes the Fleming’s Wine Dinner, an annual spirit tasting, an artists’ reception, Brooks Uncorked, the Patrons Dinner, the Grand Auction, and a champagne brunch on Mother’s Day. In addition, the series now includes an entry-level wine tasting class called Warm Up to Wine, held at the museum three times a year.
Since the early 1990s,
The Art of Good Taste has contributed more than $1.4 million in net revenue to the Brooks. Unique to the Brooks wine auction is the expense to revenue ratio; we are proud to direct more than 70 percent of all monies raised from these events back into programming and museum operations.