vino + food = my fave

i love wine. i love food. i tell hendrix i love him more than cheese & wine. most of the time that's true. i know a bit about wine. more about food. however, i know nothing when it comes to the wine dinners that go on at the boiler room. the boiler room (lucky for us!) is one our clients. chef paul kulik and his staff are extraordinary at what they do. and now they do wine dinners (lucky for all of us!). this dinners are carefully orchestrated to allow diners to learn about wine, eat food that brings out the best in that wine, and to have an experience. i think everyone, including me, should celebrate the holidays and the arrival of winter this monday at the boiler room. here's the info. you need to know:

Michael Solway and Martine's Wines

a special menu and wine pairings on:

Monday, December 13th 5:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Martine Saunier is a legacy in the world of wine importers. Her much heralded and eponymous company was founded in 1979, not an easy time for a female to break into the wine industry. Martine built her portfolio around some of the biggest names in Burgundy and the Rhône, and many have found a home on the Boiler Room wine list.
Michael Solway is proud to be currently representing Martine's Wines. As a native of Chicago, he has spent the last 20 years representing some of the world's finest wine estates, including the famed wines of Chateau Rayas. He has visited nearly every wine producing region in France and is well-versed in regional food and wine pairings.

Michael is bringing to Omaha wines from Emmanuel Reynaud, who took over his uncle's estates in 1997. As a fourth generation winemaker, Emmanuel had tremendous shoes to fill taking over one of the Rhône's most venerated names. Reynaud is a lover of the grape Granache that dominates the make-up of his wines, and treats the wine in a fiercely traditional manner fermenting in cement tanks and aging in massive 100 year old 100+ gallon oak tanks called foudres.
Dinner will start with Gaston Rivière's often overlooked Cognac fortified apertif wine called Pineau de Charentes, a wine bursting with honeyed orange, bright fresh lavender and thyme, then finish with Vin Doux from Languedoc called Muscat de Lunel. The storied Château Tour des Farges' Muscat is plump with lychee and peaches yet races with a stoney minerality and acidity. And from the great winemakers Laurence Féraud and André Brunel, Michael will offer a delicious tank aged Côtes du Rhône mix of Granach and Syrah with focused red berry, and plenty of minerality.
Of course the food from the Rhône is legendary. The menu is still forming, but I'm sure that agnolade (a local lamb stew), roasted duck, aligot (puréed potatoes and cantal cheese), grilled steak and marrow, all scented with thyme and garlic begin to evoke the earthy majesty of the Camargue and southern France.
Dinner with pairing is $65/person before tax and tip.

make reservations at www.theboilerroomrestaurant.com

this is going to be so delicious and spectacular. i hope to see some of you there. xoxo