Event

Vive La France Wine Dinner

VIVE LA FRANCE
Tuesday, October 14th
A Five-Course French Dinner with French Wines to Complement

$75 plus tax & tip. Family style seating.
Your ticket purchased today is for the Event & Tax only.
Any tip that you might like to leave for the service staff may be done so at the event.

Welcome Spritzer at 5:30
Dinner at 6:00

PREMIER
Duck Liver Mousse
charred cipollini onion, morel mushroom, pickled micro vegetable, celery root purée
****2012 SAUMUR ROSÉ, CHÂTEAU DE BRÉZÉ, LOIRE VALLEY, FRANCE
lotsa fruit but with a dry backbone. not one blade of green in this cab franc rosé.

DEUXIÈME
Chilled Corn Soup
sweet summer corn, basil, buttermilk, escargot-stuffed squash blossom
****2011 ALTESSE BLANC, DOMAINE NICOLAS GONIN, ISÈRE, SAVOIE, FRANCE
a weighty mouthfeel with olde world control.
it has a cool southern italian or hungarian furmint thing going on. bravo!

TROISIÈME
Yukon Gold Potato Wrapped Alaskan Halibut
baby spinach, buerre blanc, sauce provençal
****2011 Saumur, Domaine de Saint Just, Yves Lambert, Loire Valley, France
a lovely viscous round quality. a chenin weightiness. mainly because it's chenin.

QUATRIÈME
Herbs de Provence-Crusted New Zealand Lamb Chop
chived-mashed peruvian potato, heirloom roasted vegetable, dijon/ cabernet demi-glace
****2010 SYRAH/ GRENACHE/ CARIGNAN, MAS DES AGRUNELLES, LANGUEDOC, FRANCE
this wine is truly showing its rhône grape gutsiness.
meaty & manly (in a somewhat elegant ladies of wwf sort of way).

DESSERT
Strawberry Mousseline Cake
berries & blackberry cream