Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and it’s time to plan our menus and of course, our wine list for the holiday.
Finding a particular wine from our local Livermore Valley wineries can be a breeze with our easy search option. Go to the wineries tab at the top of the page. Once you’re there, scroll down and you’ll find a drop-down menu called “varietal.” Click which wine you’re interested in and hit search. The page will load with all the local wineries that carry that selection.
Let’s start with the Quest for Food and Wine Pairing Excellence on Thursday night. This event brings 18 winery and restaurant teams together to compete for five awards. So what makes a pairing perfect? Sabio on Main says that they aim for the wine and food to really cooperate and have a long, memorable finish. Salt Craft claims that the trick is to make a connection between the local food and wine. Johnny Garlics is excited to knock some socks off with bold flavors while Beets Hospitality aims for simplicity and clean flavors saying that food and wine should be fun, having too many things going on can confuse the palette. No one sums up this event better than The Restaurant at Wente Vineyards: I don’t think that the Bay Area wine community gives Livermore Valley the recognition it deserves, so for me, this event does just that.
Now that we’re all dying to know what these chefs have up their sleeves (sorry you’ll have to wait until Thursday night to discover their actual pairings). Let’s discover how these culinary teams got to where they are today.
About 20 years ago I was working at a very busy seafood restaurant that had an open kitchen. As I watched the people pour in, I thought that I had gotten off hook because I was not getting any orders. It turns out that my ticket printer was not turned on. That was the longest set of tickets I had ever seen. – Salt Craft
