By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor
By any measure, last night's NYCR Artisan Dinner at Luce + Hawkins -- featuring the wines of Heart & Hands Wine Company -- was a success. The packed house enjoyed an incredible meal prepared by chef Keith Luce and his kitchen team, and I'm pretty sure that everyone came away excited about what Tom and Susan Higgins are doing with pinot noir in the Finger Lakes.
I'd like to thank everyone one for coming -- especially Tom and Susan who made the trip to Long Island wine country just for this dinner and were on their way out of town early this morning.
We don't do a lot of photo essay-type posts here on the site, but there were some great sights last night worth sharing:
The menu
Local yellowtail sashimi with spicy tomato water and basil seed caviar. Paired with 2009 Brut Rose.
Tom Higgins addressing the sold-out dining room.
New potatoes with housemade chevre, charred corn, sweet peas and mushroom syrup. Paired with 09 Pinot Noir.
Porcelet -- suckling pig stuffed with sausage -- with southern-style beans and oven-roasted tomatoes. Paired with 08 Barrel Reserve Pinot Noir
Lemon curd and local berries topped with buttermilk cream and apricot-saffron-white pepper sorbet. Paired with 09 Riesling.
By far one of the best, if not the best food and wine experience I have ever been apart of.
There was no picture of the duck portion, but that may have been my favorite of the night. The two single vineyard offerings showed well. I forgot which glass was which but the one on the right when perfectly with the duck.
Awesome night!
Posted by: Michael Gorton, Jr. | July 12, 2011 at 04:39 PM
Here's a vote for more photo-essay style pieces. And not only because I'm married to our photo editor...
Posted by: Evan Dawson | July 12, 2011 at 07:18 PM
Michael: The wine on the right was the Sawmill Creek Vineyard.
Evan: I'm sure Morg is on board with it too -- as long as I promise not to do another one based purely on phone camera pictures!
Posted by: Lenn Thompson | July 12, 2011 at 08:29 PM
Thanks Lenn, I thought it was.
Posted by: Michael Gorton, Jr. | July 13, 2011 at 09:29 AM