Wine Dinner Thursdays
Each month,
relax and enjoy a delicious meal and memorable evening with new and old friends. We invite celebrity chefs and award winning winemakers to create an intimate meal you will remember for a long time.
"The Wine Dinners take on a life of their own. The guests really seem to enjoy spending an evening with friends, new and old, and getting into the spirit of good friends, good food, and good wine." JoAnn Bowman
2010 Wine Dinners
The theme for this year will be "The whole animal". We will host just 5 wine dinners this year, and each will be very, very special. We expect to serve, pig, lamb, and goose. Each chef will teach a prep/cooking class before each dinner, in most cases the day before.
Thursday, February 25. Recent winner of the James Beard Award Holly Smith from Cafe Juanita will be cooking a fresh Berkshire/Mangalitsa pig. Wendy Lange, co-founder and CFO of Lange Winery in Dundee, Oregon, will be pouring their amazing wines. Holly will be teaching at noon the day of the dinner.
Thursday, March 25...James Beard Award winner Greg Higgins, from Higgins in Portland, will be cooking a porchetta. Winemaker John Paul, from Cameron Wines in Dundee, OR, will provide the wines. Greg will hold the cooking class on Wednesday afternoon.
Thursday, April 22...James Beard Award winner John Sundstrom from Lark in Seattle will pair with Caleb and Nina Buty Foster from Buty Wines in Walla Walla.
Thursday, May 20...Fundraiser for Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association. The Willows chef will pair with Liam Doyle from Lost River Wines in Winthrop. Appetizers will start on the beach!
Thursday, June 17....James Beard Award winner Vitaly Paley from Paley's Place in Portland, will be cooking for us. Mark Gould, from Ken Wright Cellars, will be pouring their wine. Vitaly will be cooking Guinea Fowl, raised at Nettles Farm. He will be signing his new cookbook, the Paley's Place Cookbook. Cooking class will take place Wednesday afternoon beginning at 3 pm.
Thursday, July 15...DeLille Cellars from Woodinville with Chef Justin Neidermeyer, formerly of Spinasse, in Seattle.
Past Wine Dinners 2008-2009
Thursday, Oct 9
Our guest chef was James Beard Award winner Thierry Rautureau from Rover's in Seattle and winemakers Cameron and Phyllis Fries from White Heron Wines in Quincy, WA.
Thursday, Nov 13
Our guest chef was John Neumark from Serafina in Seattle, with winemakers Gaye McNutt and Ben Smith from Cadence Wines on Red Mountain in Yakima Valley.
Thursday, Feb 12, 2009
Our guest chef was Jason
Barwikowski from Clyde Common in Portland, and John Paul from Cameron Wines in Dundee.
Thursday, March 19
Greg Higgins from Higgins in Portland matched his menu with beers from Pike Brewery. Charles and RoseAnn Finkel will present their beers.
Thursday, April 30
John Sundstrom from Lark, in Seattle, joined Doug Tunell and Melissa Mills from Brickhouse Wines in Newberg, Oregon.
Thursday, May 14
Keith Luce, chef for the HerbFarm, joined with winemakers Nina and Caleb Buty-Foster from Buty Wines in Walla Walla.
Dinners are four-course and prepared by our chef or a guest chef. They begin with sparkling wine and hors d'oeuvres around the fire at 6, seating for dinner at 7. Fine wines from selected vineyards will be paired with each course in a slow procession of gourmet delight. Price is $125 plus tax and gratuity. Guests are limited to 44.
Add An Overnight Stay in the B&B any wine dinner night (space available) for only $125 more. ( The chef and winemaker usually share the Guest House). Since the winemakers and chefs will be staying at the inn, you may be able to sit around the fire and learn more about them.
• Great gift idea! Purchase a package and request gift certificate vouchers to give away as gifts for any or all of the dates.
Contact
us for more information Space is limited.
Last year's lineup:
Thursday, November 1
Our guest chef will be John Ash, from Sonoma, longtime chef at Fetzer's, and now of John Ash and Co. He will be both chef and winemaker for this special Sauvignon blanc dinner.
Thursday, December 13
Our long time chef, Craig Miller, will work with Lummi Island's own winery, Legoe Bay Wines. Karl Malling and Susie Wirth will pour their wines. This is sure to be a highlight of the season, as Craig has demonstrated his ability to match the wines with his cuisine every year in what many call the best dinners of the season. This dinner will be an all Lummi Island dinner, with absolutely everything from the island (within reason, of course)
Thursday, February 21
Greg Higgins, owner/chef of Higgins in Portland, will work with Adam Campbell of Elk Cove Wines.
Thursday, March 20
Holly Smith, chef/owner of Cafe Juanita in Kirkland, will return for another exciting dinner. She will be joined by Kay and Clay of Chinook Wines, in Prosser.
Thursday, April 17
John Sundstrom, chef/owner of Lark in Seattle, will return, after winning the coveted James Beard award last May. He will be joined by Doug Tunell and Melissa Mills of Brickhouse Wines.
