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Post-IPNC Dinner @ Navarre with Domaine Marc Roy
July 26, 2009 (Sun)
from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Portland, OR
Cost: $75 plus gratuity
Event ID #260459
Navarre (The Oregonean's Restaurant of the Year) teams up with Burgundy winemaker Alexandrine Roy for a dinner you will not want to miss.
Here's what the Guyot Guide has to say about Navarre: "Happy diners converge in this long, narrow storefront, all in full engagement with whatever is before them on the table. The cuisine is influenced by France, Italy and Spain; the specials are based upon what just came in from the farm, and the kitchen takes great pride in getting down to basics, one plate at a time. Add an adventuresome wine list (over 50 wines by the glass) to make pairing flavors a delight. This is a sweet and artful place that has its culinary feet planted firmly on the ground."
Domaine Marc Roy ia a minuscule domaine (only four hectares!) run by a young, enthusiastic woman (Alexandrine Roy)… Alexandrine, the fourth generation at this family domaine, does everything herself — including pigeage by foot! —and the wines are very pure expressions of both her winemaking philosophy. Alexandrine’s light touch with vinification results in remarkably pure, supple, and gorgeously silky wines; she destems 100%, uses oak conservatively (and based on the character of a given vintage—nothing is done by rote), employs relatively brief elevages (around one year in wood), and cherishes purity and elegance above power. She says: “I like classic pinot noir; too much color and extraction is not pinot.”
Alexandrine’s wines are very distinctive: the Marsannay does not go through malolactic fermentation, and retains a refreshing acidity; the Gevrey-Chambertin Villages is from 70 year old vines; her “Clos Prieur”, from 50 year old vines; and the tiny-production “Cuvée Alexandrine” is made entirely from millerandaged grapes — small, thick-skinned, ultra-concentrated berries that occur with greater frequency in excellent vintages.
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Here's what the Guyot Guide has to say about Navarre: "Happy diners converge in this long, narrow storefront, all in full engagement with whatever is before them on the table. The cuisine is influenced by France, Italy and Spain; the specials are based upon what just came in from the farm, and the kitchen takes great pride in getting down to basics, one plate at a time. Add an adventuresome wine list (over 50 wines by the glass) to make pairing flavors a delight. This is a sweet and artful place that has its culinary feet planted firmly on the ground."
Domaine Marc Roy ia a minuscule domaine (only four hectares!) run by a young, enthusiastic woman (Alexandrine Roy)… Alexandrine, the fourth generation at this family domaine, does everything herself — including pigeage by foot! —and the wines are very pure expressions of both her winemaking philosophy. Alexandrine’s light touch with vinification results in remarkably pure, supple, and gorgeously silky wines; she destems 100%, uses oak conservatively (and based on the character of a given vintage—nothing is done by rote), employs relatively brief elevages (around one year in wood), and cherishes purity and elegance above power. She says: “I like classic pinot noir; too much color and extraction is not pinot.”
Alexandrine’s wines are very distinctive: the Marsannay does not go through malolactic fermentation, and retains a refreshing acidity; the Gevrey-Chambertin Villages is from 70 year old vines; her “Clos Prieur”, from 50 year old vines; and the tiny-production “Cuvée Alexandrine” is made entirely from millerandaged grapes — small, thick-skinned, ultra-concentrated berries that occur with greater frequency in excellent vintages.
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