Upcoming wine and beer dinners to check out

BTG Wine Bar

June 19th, 7.00 p.m.

Pictured top, BTG will host a wine dinner with winemaker Eric Wilson of Longoria Wines tomorrow evening. Longoria Wines was established in 1982 in Santa Barbara California by Rick & Diana Longoria. In 2022, the winery changed hands to another couple with similar visions to continue this family-run winery and Eric Wilson is excited to take the reins from his friend and mentor Rick Longoria.

Eric will discuss the following Longoria wines throughout this four-course dinner. Cost is $60 for food (four courses) and $60 for wine (four pours). Selections poured include:

“Matinee” Rosé
“On Deck” Grenache
“Lovely Rita” Pinot Noir
“Blues Cuvée”

Call (801) 359-2814 for reservations.

Finca Pintxos Bar

June 20th, 6.00 p.m.

The following evening third-generation winemaker/owner Joan Cuisiné represents Pares Balta winery at Finca Pintxos Bar. Cost is $60 for food, and $60 for wine. The tasting menu is as follows:

• Welcome dish, chilled oysters, charred cucumber relish
  • Pares Balta ‘Blanca Cuisine’ Cava ‘13 | XAREL-LO/CHARDONNAY/PINOT NOIR | Penedes
• Pintxo of Spanish jamon serrano, torres chips
  • Pares Balta ‘Grosella’ ‘22 | SUMOLL | Penedes
• Salad, Russian potato, and beet salad
  • Pares Balta ‘Ros de Pacs’ ‘22 | XAREL-LO/GRENACHE | Penedes
• Tapa, pork belly skewers, Pedro Jiminez glaze, corn & tomato relish
  • Pares Balta ‘Indigena’ ‘21 | GRENACHE | Penedes
• Carne, wood oven-roasted lamb, mint, dill, lima bean salad, pickled shallot
  • Pares Balta ‘Gratavinum 2NR’ ‘21 | GRENACHE/CARIGNAN/SYRAH/CAB | Priorat
• Dessert, Spanish cinnamon spiced pastry, chocolate & dulce de leche

SLC Eatery

June 26th, 6.30 p.m.

The following week at SLC Eatery sees Soter Winery appear at SLC. The business writes: “This is wine dinner you do not want to miss! We have done a handful of wine dinners with them and they never disappoint. Hallie Whyte (Soter managing director and Speaker of wines) is one of THE best people in the wine business and just a wonderful person altogether and she will be joining us. I’m not aware of a menu being released for the meal at this time.

Franck’s

July 10th, 6.00 p.m.

The second annual beer pairing dinner in partnership with Level Crossing Brewing is coming up in July, at this Cottonwood Heights’ veteran. Cost is $150 for the whole pairing, or $100 for food only. Menu as follows:

• Torched honey-cured amberjack, yeasted popcorn, Utah corn, wood sorrel
  • Dallas Alice Belgian Style Blonde Ale
• Red Bird chicken wing basteeya, spruce tip vinegar, crystallized caraway, fermented celery leaves, carrot gorgonzola
  • Suss It Out Rye IPA
• House pasta sheet, blonde pekin duck bolognese, hazelnut, citrus sweet herb salad
  • Soul Rex DIPA
• Plancha bread, pekin duck pate, flake salt, golden plum, crispy buttermilk
  • Crypto Philly Sour
• 24-hour cocoa braised beef rib, Utah broccoli variations, rosemary Yukon golds, rosemary chili crunch, bitter chocolate beef jus, milk chocolate jus
  • The Black Album Imperial Black Rye IPA
• Cherry yogurt tart, caramelized malt cream, vanilla bean Utah cherries, Luxardo meringue
  • Barley Wine Ale
• Coffee-caramel oatmeal wafer
  • Red Sea Rift

Midway Mercantile

June 23rd

Ronsel do Sil wines will be the muse for this paired dinner at the Midway chef-driven restaurant. The business writes, ” Fate brings a second wonderful Spanish wine dinner our way in one week. The first is sold out, but we still have spaces left for this extraordinary evening. Our host is the charismatic Enriqueta Yravedra, whose family lives
in a small town in northwest Spain, where they live alongside a gorgeous river and grow native grapes – most of which we have never heard of before – and make astonishingly flavorful wines.

And the even more real hook is that Enriqueta is a concert pianist and professor of piano in NYC, and she
will be playing a concert while also taking us through her family’s wines, all the while John and his team will be
cooking course after course of dynamic pairings. This one has a higher price tag to compensate our
entertainer along with our usual wine and food pairings. We expect a 4+ hour evening with an early start at 5
pm. Hope you can join us!”

Cost is $61 for food, and $85 for wine pairings.

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Stuart Melling

Hi, I’m Stuart, nice to meet you!  I’m the founder, writer and wrangler at Gastronomic SLC.  I’m a multiple-award winning journalist and have written in myopic detail about the Salt Lake City  dining scene for the better part of seventeen years.

I’ve worked extensively with multiple local publications from Visit Salt Lake to Salt Lake Magazine, not least helped to consult on national TV.   Pause those credits, yep, that’s me! I’m also a former restaurant critic of more than five years, working for the Salt Lake Tribune.    I’m largely fueled by a critical obsession with rice, alliteration and the use of big words I don’t understand.   What they’re saying about me: “Not inaccurate”, “I thought he was older”, “I don’t share his feelings”.

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