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Hearth
Wine Dinners
We
are pleased to announce the Spring Series
of Wine Dinners at Hearth beginning Tuesday,
May 6th, 2008.
Wine Director and avowed Marilyn Manson
fanatic Paul Grieco will combine history,
culture and the glories of the grape into
an evening of conviviality and education.
To reserve a seat, please call the restaurant
(646-602-1300) or e-mail Paul at pgrieco@restauranthearth.com.
The cost for each dinner is all inclusive.
May
2008
Tuesday, May 6th, 7:00pm $140.00
per person
The Greatest White
Grape in the World: Chenin Blanc
If Hillary and Barack and John can speak
so haughtily of greatness, then so can
I. We will focus not only on the Chenin
Blanc grape but on its absolutely pristine
expression in the Loire Valley of France,
in appellations like Vouvray, Savennières,
Montlouis and Jasnières. These
white wines have glorious fruit, bone-crushing
acidity and an unerring sense of place.
If you are not familiar with this underappreciated
and undervalued part of the wine world,
put your seat belt on...the journey is
going to be exhilarating.
Wednesday, May 7th, 7:00pm $140.00
per person
Charlie Brown Grapes
Whether you choose to reside in the Old
World or New World of wine, the number
of cool grapes and wines existing is beyond
the scope of most drinkers. We generally
stay with the familiar and only rarely
venture down the untrodden vine row. Well,
tonight is your opportunity to expand
your world view and encounter cool grapes
such as Zierfandler, Scheurebe, and Ruché
that rarely see the light of a dining
table. Our goal is to overcome prejudice;
to surmount the entitled members of the
Peanuts gang and give voice to esoterica.
Lucy will never pull the football away
again.
Tuesday,
May 13th, 7:00pm $95.00 per person
Beer
We all love beer. By itself, with pretzels
or Cheetos, on a super hot summer day.
And even on a cool spring evening. And
to be a wine lover is also to be a beer
lover. Beer can match with food just as
easily as wine. And beer certainly competes
with wine for balance and acidity (though
it loses in the sense-of-place category).
Tonight, we will exalt in the malt-based
beverages of Belgium, Germany, England
and the United States and they will have
their righteous place on the table not
as an afterthought but as the stars of
the show. Fine dining will never be the
same.
Continued:
Cool Italian Wines and Terroir Redux
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