IT’S JUST LUNCH: EATS3 SAVOR SCOTTSDALE WINE LUNCH
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EATERAZ was lucky to attend one of Savor Scottsdale’s Wine Lunches as part of the EATS3 events happening around town over the weekend. Ours was at Lon’s at the Hermosa Inn and featured a four course meal paired with wines from the Brewer-Clifton Winery. Food & wine lovers paid a pretty penny to sample food from Executive Chef Michael Rusconi and the wines provided by Chrystal Clifton.
The menu went something like this; Kabocha Squash Soup with a port syrup drizzled atop and duck confit hidden below, this was paired with a Brewer-Clifton’s Santa Rita Hills, 2007 Chardonnay. Moving on, we were graced with a Sweet Shrimp dish featuring locally grown shrimp from Arizona. Yes, you heard correctly! GOTO http://www.desertsweetshrimp.com/index.html and see for yourself.
Well these beauties were served with stewed leek and a cilantro espuma (foam) atop, and paired with a B/C Mount Carmel, 2006 Chardonnay. The main entree was a Braised Beef Shortrib in an ancho chili chocolate sauce and paired with two Pinot Noirs so that guests could do a direct comparison; they were a Mount Carmel, 2006 and a Cargasacchi, 2006. Desert was a light-as-a-feather Chocolate Sabayon on top of a Lemon Tart.
EATS3 festival star Jacques Pépin was at this particular luncheon pictured here with local culinary legend, Barbara Fenzl of Les Gourmettes. Pépin is in town to promote his new cookbook, More Fast Food My Way, and support EATS3.
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