Get ready for our Red Wine Weekend taking place April 8-9, 2016. Enjoy fine wines, delicious food, and exceptional lodging in Bayfield, WI. Events are held at Le Chateau, a sister property of Old Rittenhouse Inn, and the historic Landmark Restaurant at Old Rittenhouse Inn. The highlight of the weekend events is a 6-course dinner with wines specially selected to match each dish.
Make It A Weekend! Discount weekend lodging packages include:
- Friday tasting & appetizer reception
- A Saturday afternoon tasting seminar
- Saturday evening’s 6-course red wine dinner
- Server Gratuities for meals
Menu: Friday Wine Tasting and Appetizer Party, Great Red Blends, April 8, 2016
- Artisan cheese platter
- Red wine marinated flank steak
- Slow braised meatballs in a red wine tomato sauce
- Hot ricotta and crab dip with crostini
- Salmon croquettes with lemon-dill aioli
- Raspberry-chocolate bombolonis (Italian doughnut holes)
- North by Northwest, Red Blend – Washington State
- Ferrari Carano, Siena – Sonoma
- Trefethen, Double T Red Blend – Napa
- Layer Cake, Sea of Stones – Argentina
- Paraduxx, Red Blend – Napa
Menu: Saturday Red Wine Seminar, A ‘Zinful’ Afternoon, April 9, 2016
- Decoy – Sonoma
- Easton – Amador
- Red & Green – Chiles Valley (Napa)
- Heitz Ink Grade – Napa
- Seghesio, Old Vine Zinfandel – Sonoma
- Rombauer – California
Menu: Saturday Merlot Dinner, April 9, 2016
- Starter: Smoked duck breast with raspberry gastrique and micro greens salad with Tamarack Merlot, Washington State
- Soup: Cabernet Minestrone with Franciscan Merlot, Napa Valley
- Salad: Roasted beet and arugula salad with feta, candied pecans, and basil vinaigrette with Decoy Merlot, North Coast
- Sorbet: Concord grape
- Entrées: Chateaubriand (roasted beef tenderloin) with sauce béarnaise and mascarpone whipped yukons with Frog’s Leap Merlot OR
- Herb crusted yellowfin tuna beurre rouge and faro risotto with Ferrari Carano Merlot, Sonoma
- Dessert: Chocolate and caramel brittle torte with Rombauer Merlot
Dinner Includes 6 courses and 5 wines. $75/person plus tax and gratuity. For discount weekend lodging packages, Call 715-779-5111 or Book Online to reserve a place at the table.