Camel Valley Winemaker’s Dinner
Friday, 27 March 2013
If you love great wine and gorgeous food, then indulge yourself and grow your grape knowledge at the same time with our Camel Valley Winemaker’s Dinner.
Hotel guests and day visitors are welcome at the dinner, which takes place on Saturday, April 27th and is the brainchild of Scarlet food and Beverage manager Meeche Hudd.
Meeche loves sharing her passion for great food and drink with guests, so decided to host a winemaker’s evening.
“I wanted to take the stuffiness out of wine,” she said, “and to create a real dinner party feel. I love talking to guests about wine, sharing how interesting wine can be and how accessible. It’s great to shake off that stuffy, formal stigma that so often goes with wine.
“I wanted to create something that was dinner party like, but could also really show case what we do here at the Scarlet.
“Camel Valley is a Cornish brand that complements our ethos so beautifully that the thought of working with them to create an evening was really exciting.
“The winemaker is Sam Lindo. He’s a really interesting character and his background is full of intrigue, so I am hoping that this winemaker’s dinner will really create some great table discussions, which is what it’s all about.”
The idea is that the evening is relaxed and informal, like going to a friend’s house for a dinner party.
“We’re after a real atmospheric dinner party experience,” says Meeche, “where people don’t want to leave at the end. We want guests to enjoy everything so much and make new friends that the night, which makes for a great food memory.”
Read more about our winemaker's dinner here.
Book your place quickly. Call 01637 861 800.
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A Winemaker’s Dinner with a Difference
Friday, 27 March 2013
Our Camel Valley Winemaker’s Dinner was always destined to be a winemaker’s dinner with a difference. This is the Scarlet, after all, and daring to be different is one of our mottos.
So, instead of doing the done thing and starting with a menu and matching the wines to the food, Meeche Hudd, our food and beverage manager, decided to turn our winemaker’s dinner on its head.
She presented Scarlet head chef Tom Hunter with the wines - Camel Valley Brut, Annie’s Anniversary Brut, Camel Valley Brut Rose and Camel Valley Bacchus White - and challenged him to conjure up a menu to match.
Tom has worked backwards to create four courses that pair beautifully with each Camel Valley wine.
Tom said: “It’s a very different process, usually you are matching the wine to the food but this is the exact opposite. I take a lot of advice from Meeche, our food and beverage manager. I taste the wines myself…there’s a lot of tasting involved.
“Once I’ve got an understanding of the wine and what will work with it, it’s a matter of trialing out those ideas and quite often they don’t work and you have to go back to the drawing board.
“We also have to work with what’s fresh, local and available, which adds to the challenge and makes it really interesting.
“It’s great having Camel Valley right here on our doorstep. They are a great local brand, but we’d be using them wherever they were based because the quality of the product is so good.”
Hotel guests and day visitors are welcome at the dinner, which takes place on Saturday, April 27th.
Read more about our winemaker's dinner here.
Book your place quickly. Call 01637 861 800.
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The Scarlet Book Club - February meeting
Friday, 27 February 2013
We welcomed two new members - Clare and Lynette - to the Scarlet Book Club's February meeting and thoroughly enjoyed debating the whys and wherefores of The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver.
We all agreed that this was an ideal book club choice because it was a novel few of us would have been tempted to read off our own bat, but turned out to be one of the best books we'd all read for a long time.
Different people liked different aspects of the book, but all of us are now keen to read more by Kingsolver.
Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 14th March, at 2pm in the Scarlet library when we will discuss the classic Cornish novel, My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier.
New members are very welcome. Just come along.
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