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PAST EVENTS 2003 |
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Friday 24th and Saturday 25th January 2003 Dinner is priced at ?35.00 per person and is served in both the Restaurant and Brasserie. Friday 1st February 2003 Friday 14th February 2003 Sunday 30th March 2003 Sunday 20th April 2003 Thursday 29th May 2003 We will be showing a range of different wines from the north of Italy. Having recently visited each of the wineries (on a rather arduous ?business? trip!) we hope to be able to create an authentic menu to compliment. Wines will include Barolo by Guiseppe Mascarello and an Amarone by Marinella Camerani amongst others. This 5 course Lydgate interpretation of Northern Italian food with Wines is priced at ?55.00 per person Friday 13th June 2003 Sunday 15th June 2003 Thursday 3rd July 2003 Eduardo is proprietor of both Caliterra and Errazuriz. He has joined forces with Robert Mondavi (whose wine empire started in California) at Caliterra whilst Errazuriz is still family owned. On visiting Errazuriz in February 2001 we met up with Eduardo afterwards in Santiago de Chile for Pisco sour. Phil Garratt of Winos, George Street, Oldham turned the discussion towards beer and the conversation went something like this. PG ?Eduardo, is there any decent beer in Chile, all I?ve had so far gassy lager?? EC ?Yes there is, have you tried Austral?? PG ?Yes we had it at lunch today, it has very little taste and is pretty much like the rest.? EC ?I am sorry you didn?t like it, I?ll pass on your comments to my head brewer.? Faux pas Phillip! Phil Tuck, Master of Wine, acts as consultant to the wine makers from each estate on their vinification and farming techniques, from pruning the vines to blending. During this dinner we will concentrate more on the drinking of wine and will hopefully have an insight into life in Chile. Dinner is priced at ?52.50 including all wines. Sunday 6th July 2003 Thursday 17th July 2003 Thursday 4th September 2003 Thursday 18th September 2003 Dinner with champagne from this Grand Marque Champagne House We first visited Taittinger, Reims in 1998, at this visit we were treated to a tour of the cellars, starting and finishing with a glass or two of Comte. We then moved to their Chateau just north of Epernay on a glorious sunny afternoon. More Comte on the lawn preceded a private lunch for our little gang of 5, cooked by a Michelin starred chef who had driven down from Reims, followed by a drop more Comte. Taittinger certainly know how to entertain! The dinner this evening will not be served in a Chateau but a pub, being Lydgate it will probably not be all that sunny, our cellar has the pungent aroma of malt and hops and we do not have a Michelin star. However the latest vintage of Comte tastes as good in a pub as it does anywhere in France, John can generally knock up a hearty plate of nosh and the dinner will be hosted by Justin Llewellyn, ?PR Brand Ambassador for Taittinger? being his official title. He has an interesting background, being son to one of the great inventors of our time, in film that is. His late father was the longest serving actor in the Bond films and as Q saw more of Moneypenny than any of the many 007?s! The makings of an interesting evening me thinks Friday 24th October 2003 This 5 course dinner with wine will not include Kangaroo and is priced at ?47.50 Sunday 2nd November 2003 Money raised from this event is be equally shared between Lydgate Brass Band and Lydgate Whit Friday Band Contest Sunday 23rd November 2003 |
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