Join us at Russell’s Restaurant & Loft Wednesday December 7th @6:00pm, for a night of gastronomy featuring Winemaker Gilles Nicault and Chef Russell Dean Lowell.

*Menu to be Announced

**This is a set menu, but we will make accommodations with plenty of notice.

About:Gilles Nicault

Gilles has served as director of winemaking and viticulture since Long Shadows’ inception. He oversees winery operations and collaborates with Long Shadows’ celebrated vintners from around the globe to ensure that each winemaker’s vision is realized in the vineyard and the cellar, a position he describes as his “dream job.”

Gilles grew up in southern France and graduated from the University of Avignon with a degree in viticulture and enology. He honed his craft in the fabled hillside wineries of Côte du Rhône, Provence and Champagne. In 1994, already a vintner of rising fame in his homeland, Gilles traveled to Washington State to expand his winemaking skills. Here he worked for several top Washington wineries, including Woodward Canyon, before joining Long Shadows in 2003. Seattle magazine named him Washington State’s Winemaker of the Year in 2016.

About: Chef Russell Lowell

Master story-teller and author of In Search of Duende, Russell Lowell is the executive chef and owner of Russell Dean Lowell Premier Catering, and two distinguished venues in the greater Seattle area, One of “Russell’s” success secrets is Chef Lowell cuts all proteins in house and holds fish demos for halibut and salmon to show guests how to hone this craft at home. A true friend to up-and-coming Washington winemakers, Chef Lowell holds several winemaker dinner events each year to pair their wines with his exquisite cuisine .Russell credits his impressive culinary journey to a lifelong passion for food, spawned in the coral reefs and mangrove waterways of Cuba and nurtured by family. His passions extend far beyond the culinary walls. A true adventurer and renaissance man, Russell Lowell is a “chef of all seasons”. He can be found fly fishing all over the world with flies he ties himself, hiking and hunting in forests of the Pacific Northwest and holding Elk Camp at various locations each fall.