AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF AMERICAN WINE

THURS  SEPT 24 @7PM
AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF AMERICAN WINE , WITH LEWIS KOPMAN
$250 PER PERSON

3 COURSE DINNER + 9 WINES
We will be highlighting 3 producers, all of whom sort of represent a kind of 'what if ?' or 'road not taken' in American wine. In other words, they are all pretty radically different from people's pre-conception of their regions but are never-the-less deeply historically rooted. 

Limnad Blanc de Noirs Pinot Noir 2020
Limnad Sparkling Riesling 2020 
Golden Cluster Semillon 2022
Dionystic "Miller" Pinot Meunier 2024
Vinous Obscura Baroque 2022
Renaissance Cabernet Sauvignon 2002
Renaissance 2002 Claret Prestige 
Renaissance Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve 2001
Renaissance Granite Crown 2004 

Golden Cluster : Sources fruit from the Charles Coury Vineyard in the Northern Willamette near Forest Grove, which was the historic heart of the wine industry before prohibition, and is planted to dozens of different grape varieties (including, but absolutely not limited to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay). It's a sort of time capsule from before Oregon's identity settled into being a Pinot Noir monoculture. 

Limnad : Nancy Irelan's dedicated sparkling project based off Seneca Lake. Before prohibition, the Finger Lakes was the U.S. Premier sparkling wine region, and was starting to be recognized for it on an international level. Nancy is, on a technical level, one of the US' most precise producers of sparkling wine, and the project is an amazing investigation/rediscovery of what is potentially our greatest terroir for sparkling wines. 

Renaissance : These wines are a time capsule of more european, classically profiled California Cabernet from a time period when virtually every producer in the state was abandoning that aesthetic in favor of what would become "Napa Cab" AKA, big, rich, intensely alcoholic and extracted wines. They've aged beautifully, and are virtually the only wines of that style/age range that one can find from California.