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Well I barely made it out of Utah with crazy plane delays, screaming children and erratic Delta flights. It was lovely to get home to the nice cool weather back in SF. It was 90-plus degrees out there! Heat aside, I continued to eat and drink well in Park City and went to a lovely wine dinner last night at fin (yes it's spelled with a lower case F), the benchmark restaurant of the Sky Lodge.
Oakville Ranch Vineyards, out of you can guess which appellation in Napa, was the second producer to host a decadent multi-course winemaker dinner at the property. Vice president of marketing Karen Cakebread, of guess which winery fame, who organized the dinner series, admits she started out inviting her winemaker friends as Utah is a comparatively small wine market so not everyone is dying to roll out the red carpet here.
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Oakville Ranch wines at the ready at fin (pictured above).
The five-course dinner, paired with four wines and a sparkler, was prepared the by Sky Lodge's fleet of chefs and overseen by executive chef Scott Boberek. When not cooking chef is a serious mountain biker in a town that takes its sports seriously (during a concert a couple of nights ago in Deer Valley you could see them barreling down the mountainside in the dark). Price on the dinner was a New York/SF style $125, not including tax or tip. But there's money in Park City and this resort is aiming to be the hottest ticket in town. As I sat in my hot tub on my deck with a glass of Pinot later that night I thought they were succeeding quite well.
I particularly loved the sinfully delicious foie gras in a balsamic cherry glaze paired with the Oakville Ranch Robert's Blend 2004. The wine is named for the winery owner's husband. This big rich wine is full of leather, spice and blackberry. Not surprisingly it is 83 percent Cabernet Franc, one of my favorite grapes in the world and the great red grape of the Loire Valley. The balance is Cabernet Sauvignon. Only 180 six packs of this wine were made according to Paula Kornell, of Oakville Ranch and it comes it at $90 a bottle, so it's not an everyday quaff. The whole winery's production is actually quite small at a total of 1,800 cases.
The next two wineries to be featured are Judd's Hill in August and Duckhorn in September. At the end of the dinner Kornell concluded that "Park City is a food and wine destination. And Utah is a surprisingly great wine market." She added that she hoped the winery series would "help put the Sky Lodge on the map for food and wine pairing."
Cheers Utah,
Liza the Wine Chick
A touch of Kobe tenderloin and Oakville Ranch Cab at fin.
Topics: CLOCK BAR , Park City , Oakville Ranch , Sky lodge , Cabernet
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