Style of North Backyard Winemakers Dinner • Kath Eats

Final weekend I went to the Style of North Backyard Winemakers Dinner with my mom in legislation! Right here’s the recap. 

I like a theme dinner! 

This previous Friday night time, I took my mom in legislation to the Style of North Backyard Winemakers Dinner as a belated seventieth birthday present! 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 college 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 prime. 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 the easiest way! 

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 might 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 will do it once more subsequent 12 months!