Chocolate and Wine-Sublime!

Chocolate and Wine Tasting

Saturday, March 12th
6-7pm
Join us for this decadent pairing of delicious wines and specialty chocolates, including a Flourless Chocolate Oblivion Cake from Uniquely Yours Pastry Shop.
Members: $15
Non-members: $20
Music to follow by
Matt & Steph Davies
with special guest Orly Bendavid.
Please RSVP to 553-5282

Holiday pastry and coffee tasting

Thursday Night Tasting

Join us for a

Holiday Event...

Stumpjack Coffee &
Uniquely Yours Pastry

tasting

Thursday, Dec. 4...6:30-8:00pm
members $10*
nonmembers $15*

Sample decadently delicious seasonal coffees and out-of-this-world pastries specially made by Jennifer of Uniquely Yours Pastry Shoppe. Let us know if you are planning on coming.

Becky Markvart will be serenading us with beautiful Christmas music.

Good Wine, Good Food, Good Friends...

Andy Hilliard educating the Stumpjack masses on South African wine.
Image by Jaslyn Gilbert of the HTR.

What else could you ask for? Andrew Hilliard delighted us with both his smooth South African wines and tales of life at Beau Joubert. It was one of the most enjoyable and edifying wine tastings we've experienced. Outstanding wines (every single wine in their line was a thumbs up winner); a passionate and knowledgable presenter; a bunch of good friends; some tasty cheeses, bacon/scallops and prosciutto wrapped shrimp hors d'oeuvres...made for a very nice evening. Jaslyn Gilbert from the Herald Times Reporter was on hand snapping photos for an upcoming feature on the Beau Joubert Winery in the HTR's Lakeshore Living magazine.

I'm full!

Image from last night's tasting, courtesy of Brian Powell.

Last night's Beer & Salami Tasting was very enjoyable. A handful of good microbrew beers, an equal measure of tasty Italian meats, a half-dozen friends sitting around shooting the breeze...makes for a fun and gastronomically satisfying evening. The majority consensus seemed to be that Sierra Nevada's Celebration Ale was the surprise beer of the night (a truly great beer from that brewery's line of excellent products). I think the favorites of the meats were the pastrami and the capicola (or capicollo). While we followed a format of pairing specific beers with specific cuts of meat, no specific pairing jumped out as the overwhelming favorite.

Thank you to Lee Brocher of Maretti's Italian Deli in Manitowoc for setting us up with an excellent variety of cured meats. After the tasting we went over to the Strand theater for a private screening of the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, which opens tonight. Big thumbs up on this gritty, action-packed flick. Thanks Gretchen and John!

Next week: Andrew Hilliard of the Beau Jobert South African Winery will be doing the tasting at Stumpjack. Details to follow.

post by David