Tasting and talking wine
Friday - November 30, 2007
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A bite-sized sampling of food events on Oahu.
Patz & Hall at Vino.
More world-class winemakers are on their way to Honolulu to taste and talk about their award-winning work. Patz & Hall (by a dynamic winemaking quartet of Donald Patz, Heather Patz, Anne Moses and James Hall) produces outstanding Chardonnay and elegant, seductive Pinot Noir, all from California.
“Patz & Hall is one of the true ‘tour de force’ wineries from the Napa Valley,” says Master Sommelier Chuck Furuya, who will host Donald Patz at Vino Dec. 5. “I first tasted their wine (the 1989 Chardonnay “Napa Valley”) at Mauna Lani Resort on the Big Island. Their inaugural wines were very much about power, full-throttle showiness and bravado. It has been most interesting for me to watch this winery widen their grape sourcing and evolve their house style over the years without compromising their obvious passion and dedication for producing world-class wines.”
Patz & Hall receives acclaim each vintage for its Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Grapes are sourced from exceptional family vineyards in Napa Valley, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County and the Santa Lucia Highlands.
Donald Patz will join wine lovers at Vino for a relaxed evening of wine tastings and talk.
“Donald is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and fascinating ‘wine minds’
around,” says Furuya. “We can’t wait to hear what he has to say about wine and also about the industry in general.”
A great opportunity for wine lovers and novices alike. Five wines are included in the $45 cost. As usual, seating at Vino is limited, and this one’s sure to sell out fast.
Vino Patz & Hall Wine Tasting with Donald Patz.
Wednesday Dec. 5 Cost $45 524-8466
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Fine Dining Returns to Moana Surfrider.
Fine dining is returning to the Moana Surfrider as the Beach House prepares to open Dec. 12.
The restaurant will be located beachfront at the old Grand Salon Ballroom and veranda of the hotel, and will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The dinner menu will specialize in steak, seafood, wine and spirits; breakfast and lunch will be served on the veranda, and the hotel’s famous afternoon tea will be reintroduced.
Rodney Uyehara is the new executive chef. Uyehara was most recently at The Bistro at Century Center, where he received consistently positive reviews for his food.
Keith Malini, formerly of the Hanohano Room, is director of food and beverage. Expect good things in terms of the view, the service and the food.
Holiday reservations are now being taken.
Call The Moana Surfrider for further details and reservations: 922-3111
Holiday Wine Dinner at Sam Choy’s.
Chef Aaron Fukuda prepares a wine dinner to set the mood for the holidays this coming Thursday, Dec. 6, at Sam Choy’s Diamond Head Restaurant.
The five-course dinner includes American Kobe beef tartare on a savory mushroom bread pudding with foie gras, pan-seared jumbo scallops, pepper-crusted drunken pork belly, and a surf and turf of truffled risotto-stuffed duck roulade with lobster beignets.
Four courses are paired with wines - the scallops are paired with sake - and dessert is a refreshing frozen strawberry mousse cake with macerated fresh berries.
Cost is $75.
Sam Choy’s Diamond Head Restaurant
449 Kapahulu Ave., second floor
732-8645
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