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Supper Assortment Dinner at Veritas • Kath Eats

Ultimate Friday evening time Thomas and I went to a Supper Assortment Dinner at Veritas. The theme was hip hop, and we had a blast!

Supper Assortment Dinner at Veritas

I like an incredible wine dinner, and Veritas locations on just a few of the best! As quickly as a month for the upper part of the yr, there’s a Supper Assortment Dinner at Veritas. You probably can see the entire event schedule proper right here! Each dinner has a really utterly completely different theme, and there are loads of customer cooks featured. Veritas invited me to the Might Supper Assortment that features Randi Brady of Diversified Vines. Randi is known for her “Fashion the Playlist” events the place she brings wine and hip hop collectively. Randi received right here up from Atlanta and put our winery dinner to music!

My date for the evening:

Course One

Handed Apps with the 2022 Veritas Viognier

The handed apps had been so good! This was a fried Virginia oyster with a hydro lettuce and caviar ranch (I’m pulling these descriptions correct from the menu!)

And OMG – these mushrooms had been stuffed with pimento cheese and I contemplate had a pork on excessive. Such an superior combo!

The Setting

Quite a lot of the Supper Assortment dinners are outdoors, nevertheless ours was inside the gorgeous Veritas ballroom.

I cherished the disco ball centerpieces! We had been assigned tables, and we had been seated subsequent to a person who we discovered lives three doorways down from us!

Opening Remarks

As a result of the dinner began, we had been launched to Randi Brady along with Veritas winemaker Emily Hodson and CEO George Hodson. They outlined how the music influenced the meal and what to anticipate as each course began.

You’ll see on the menu underneath there’s a signature music for each dish, nevertheless then as we liked consuming additional songs flowed onto the playlist in the identical trend. I consider initially that that they had envisioned the dance floor opening on the end of the meal, nevertheless so many people had been impressed by the music there have been dancers at each course! I truly had no thought what to anticipate as soon as I RSVPed for this event, and it exceeded all expectations. It was in distinction to a different dinner I’ve attended!

First Course

“Southern Hospitality” – Ludacris

We had the Veritas Scintilla NV with some truly delicious fried Virginia seafood, slaws, and sauces. All of the issues was handed on platters, family trend.

Second Course

“I’m Good” – Clipse That features Pharrell

Paired with the 2023 Rosé, which I utterly cherished. It was my favorite wine of the evening time!

The lighting purchased dimmer, nevertheless this sensible salad was truly superior with orzo, asparagus, pecorino, lemon, shitake mushrooms, and a grilled ramp dressing.

Third Course

“Juicy” – Notorious B.I.G.

Paired with the 2017 Cabernet Franc

We liked pepper jack mashed potatoes, roasted tomatoes, and a porchetta. I merely wanted to seek for what a porchetta was on account of I’m nonetheless uncertain even after consuming it! In response to Wikipedia: “Porchetta is a savory, fatty, and moist boneless pork roast of Italian culinary customized. The carcass is deboned and spitted or roasted traditionally over wood for at least eight hours, fat and pores and pores and skin nonetheless on.” It was SO distinctive – a wonderful crispy pores and pores and skin, with layers of fat on inside the heart after which a additional gamey meat inside the heart (that can have been liver?!)

Dessert

“Get Light” – Nas

Omg – I cherished this Strawberry Clafoutis! We liked it with the 2021 Kenmar dessert wine. I wanted to be cautious to not overdrink on account of the whole thing tasted so utterly collectively.