We have been doing wine dinners for a long time but I hadn't realized that my wife Suzanne ('the Sue-chef') had kept menus from long past dinners. I started browsing them and it made me hungry and I also wished I still had some of the wines we served. Here is an example from 2001:
As an aperitif - 1976 Schloss Eltz Eltviller Sonnenberg Riesling feine Spätlese
With amuses bouches (unspecified on the menu), 1989 Veuve Clicquot Trilennium Reserved Brut
With shrimp risotto, 1986 Rougeot-Latour Meursault
With sweetbreads with mustard and chanterelles:
1975 Branaire Ducru - 1975 Beychevelle - 1975 Lynch Bages
With duck breast in a Port and prune sauce:
1970 St. Pierre Servaistre - 1970 Grand Puy Lacoste - 1970 Ch. Margaux
A bergamotte (odd Mediterranean fruit) and cranberry tart
1977 Grahams with cheese
I still have some of the Lynch Bages, Beychevelle and the Grahams, but I wish I had some of the others!
Does anyone else keep menus from wine dinners past?
