SE Wine Collective Cuisiniéres Supper Club Returns for Spring Dinner Tuesday, April 5th

by | Mar 25, 2016

Just in time for fresh spring flavors, SE Wine Collective’s popular Cuisiniéres Supper Club returns. The Collective’s Chef, Althea Grey Potter and Co-Founder/Owner Kate Norris are teaming up once again bringing local ingredients, French flavors, and expertly paired wines from several of Portland’s urban wineries to the tables of SE Wine Collective Tuesday, April 5th. After hosting the Cuisiniéres (meaning “lady cooks” in French) supper club for a year now, the duo launched the Cuisinieres catering company March 22nd. This event is taking place right after the SE Wine Collective’s Spring Wine Club release on March 25, making it a great opportunity for guests to taste and pair some of the newly released Spring Club wines. Guests will be able pick up any extra bottles of the wines they love that evening, and if they haven’t already, join the Club!
WHEN
Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
6:00 PM
WHERE
SE Wine Collective
2425 SE 35th Pl., Portland, OR 97215
DETAILS
Tickets are $50 including wine pairings. Reservations can be made through emailing craig@sewinecollective.com or calling the winery at 503-208-2061

MENU

Passed Appetizers

Ouefs mayonnaise with tarragon & smoked trout
Brown butter crostini, housemade ricotta & wild mushrooms
Wine Pairing: 2015 Gersing Cellars Pinot Gris

First Course

Spring carrots, whipped sheep feta, spelt crumble, carrot top & sunflower seed pesto & sunflower sprouts
Wine Pairing: 2015 Jasper Sisco Cincault Rose

Main Course

Provençal braised lamb shank
Freekah with mint, castelvetrano olives, & leeks, buttered asparagus
Wine Pairing: 2015 Division-Villages Les Petits Fers Gamay Noir

Dessert

Rose pavlova with creme fruit & rhubarb

 

About SE Wine Collective
Kate Norris and Thomas Monroe, of Division Winemaking Company, founded the Southeast Wine Collective in 2012 in response to their personal interest in creating a unique multi-faceted urban winery, coupled with increasing public interest in the urban wine movement. The urban winery and wine bar brings together like-minded wineries who are sustainably growing their businesses and offers a venue for commercial custom crush wine production, tastings and events in an area of SE Portland that already hosts a thriving restaurant and nightlife scene. Currently the collective is made up of ten wineries: Division Winemaking Company, Fullerton Wines, Helioterra Wines, Jackalope Wine Cellars, James Rahn Wine Co, Jasper Sisco, Ore Winery, Vincent Wine Company, Willful Wines and 5Q, while continuing to work as an incubator for future wine brands and budding industry ideas. Currently 20 varietals are produced at the Collective ranging from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Blanc to lesser-known varietals such as Gamay Noir, Mourvedre, Chenin Blanc, Muscat, and Arneis. The wine bar features pours and flights from all 10 Collective members and their inspirational wines along with draft beer and a diverse food menu by in-house chef Althea Grey Potter. Recently the Collective was listed among the Top 20 Best Wine Bars in America by Wine Enthusiast,  10 Best Urban Wineries in USA Today and Best Wine Bars in The Oregonian. Travel + Leisure called the Collective a must for any wine connoisseur’s Perfect Weekend in Portland, It has also been featured in FOOD & WINE magazine’s A Winemakers’ Beaujolais Nouveau Party, the New York Times article “Bringing the Wine to Portland, Ore.”, Wine Spectator’s “The New Portland,” Portland Monthly’s article “Meet Portland’s Top Urban Winemakers,” and Portland Monthly’s Best Restaurants 2014 7 Days In Portland piece. Wines produced at the Collective have been mentioned in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times. The wine bar hosts large and small events, wine release parties and pop-up dinners and is available for rent for private parties. Its hours are Mon, Wed, Thurs. and Fri. 4 – 10 p.m.; Sat. 1 p.m. – 10 p.m. and Sun. 1 p.m. – 8 p.m. The Collective is located at 2425 SE 35th Place, Portland, Oregon 97215. Find more information at www.sewinecollective.com, Facebook SE Wine Collective, Twitter @SEWineColl, Instagram @SEWineCollective or by calling 503-208-2061.

 

Liana Scarsella

Liana Scarsella is a creative writer and editor whose hiatus from the Northwest during her college career strengthened both her writing skills and her desire to return to the greater Seattle area. Since graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in English and a professional editing minor, Scarsella has gained experience in marketing, writing and editing for a variety of food, wine and travel publications including national publications Touring & Tasting and CIDERCRAFT magazines, food blog Girls On Food and of course, Sip Northwest. She holds commas and craft beverages close to her heart, and aspires to write about the latter indefinitely.

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