• Sunday, December 13, open
• Sunday December 20, open
• Women Tasting Wine “Sparkling Wines,” December 21, 4:00 to 6:00pm
• Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24, open
• Christmas Day, Friday, December 25, closed
• Sunday, December 27, open
• New Year’s Eve, Thursday, December 31, open
• New Year’s Day, Friday, January 1, closed
Here is the most requested recipe from the last Women Tasting Wine seminar.
Traditionally, rillettes are made from a confit that has been pounded in a mortar to a smooth paste. Confit is one of the oldest methods of preserving meats, fish and poultry. First the meat is cured with salt and then slow cooked in fat or oil. Finally it is packed in a crock and sealed from the air with a layer of fat. If you are uncomfortable using this quantity of duck fat, olive oil may be substituted though the results won’t be exactly the same.
For the Columbus Day holiday long weekend, we will be open Sunday, October 11.
On Monday, October 19, the monthly Women Tasting Wine Seminar will focus on wines of Spain. This should be a great seminar, as Spanish wines deliver some of the best values on the market today. Last month’s seminar was the largest to-date, and the food was fantastic.
Sunday, October 25, we will serve the All Oysters Dinner. I have been nagging Tim about the menu for the last few weeks, and as he politely reminded me this menu, as all of his menu, are like little pieces of poetry that manifest themselves in their own time – and not mine. Needless to say, the menu will be fantastic, pairing wines with a multi-course celebration of the fresh oyster. Our friend Joe Julian from Columbia Distributing will be pairing the wines for this event.
The Jackalope Grill also will be open on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 26, so if you don’t feel like cooking and cleaning let us do it for you.