Final weekend I went to the Style of North Backyard Winemakers Dinner with my mom in regulation! Right here’s the recap.
I like a theme dinner!
This previous Friday night time, I took my mom in regulation to the Style of North Backyard Winemakers Dinner as a belated seventieth birthday reward! She lives in North Backyard, the place Thomas grew up, so this was the proper setting for us to take pleasure in dinner collectively!
The dinner paired wines and ciders from Knowledge Oak Vineyard, Loving Cup Winery & Vineyard, and Albemarle Ciderworks together with meals ready by native North Backyard Chef, Ian Rubenoff. Ian and Thomas have been elementary faculty classmates!
Style of North Backyard Winemakers Dinner
We arrived at Albemarle Ciderworks on a cool, foggy night and have been greeted with a glass of brut d’albemarle.
Hors d’Oeuvres
Smoked Alaskan salmon dip on a rye cracker with cherry compote.
Wine Pairings
Paired with the brut and the sparking rosé brute nature from Knowledge Oak.
Remarks
We heard some remarks from the winemakers and toasted to the North Backyard group.
First Course
Blue crab stuffed roasted portobello with child greens (from Ian’s mother’s backyard!) and an avocado and cherry tomato salad on high. Liked this and ate each chunk!
Wine Pairings
Paired with the Loving Cup White and the Royal Pippin Cider.
Second Course
Crispy pork stomach with chipotle honey served with a charred leek and mushroom tamale and garlicky greens. This was top-of-the-line pork stomach dishes I’ve ever had! I like tamales, too.
Wine Pairings
Knowledge Oak’s Cabernet Franc and the Loving Cup Pink. I liked each reds, as they have been “very Virginia” in one of the simplest ways!
Dessert Course
My favourite course!! We have been served a walnut buckwheat toffee cake with a rhubarb dulce de leche and a cream cheese ice cream. The ice cream was completely melty and tasted like cheesecake! I used to be obsessed and want I may have it on the common.
Wine Pairings
With the toffee cake we loved a Virginia Maiden Cyser, which is a cider meade collab with Black Heath Meadery out of Richmond.
Such a particular dinner – I hope we are able to do it once more subsequent 12 months!
