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By Tom Fitzmorris
Originally published October 22, 2007

Thursday, Oct. 25
Nickel & Nickel Dinner At Keith Young's

Nickel & Nickel--a winery in Napa best known for its spectacular late-harvest dessert wine, Dolce--is presenting an unusually ambitious wine dinner this Thursday at Keith Young's Steakhouse.

The dinner will be in the restaurant's handsome wine room, a recent addition to the  tree-surrounded establishment on the norther edge of Madisonville. The menu is so extensive and the wines so distinguished that it will require a bit of preparation for your appetite. It's not often you see a dinner that follows a double-cut lamb chop with a filet mignon.

Nickel & Nickel is a spinoff of the ancient and excellent Far Niente Winery, also in Napa. All of the wines are single-vineyard productions from prime lands around Oakville.

Here's the menu:

Crabmeat Imperial
Barbecue Shrimp
Wine: Nickel & Nickel Searby Vineyard Chardonnay 2005

Grilled Lobster Tail
With a saffron butter sauce
Wine: Nickel & Nickel Medina Vineyard Chardonnay 2005

Field Greens
Tossed with blue cheese vinaigrette

Grilled Double-Cut Lamb Chop
With fresh herb glaze and tomato a la Provencale
Wine: Nickel & Nickel Dyer Vineyard Syrah 2005

Grilled Filet Mignon
With gratin of sweet potato and apples
Wine: Nickel & Nickel Sullenger Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2005

Fresh Peach Cobbler
Infused with star anise
Wine: Dolce Late Harvest 2003

The price for this enormous dinner of premium products is $100, plus tax and tip--so, really, around $130 per person. It begins with a reception at  seven, at which you'll meet the winery's Jim Doehring. They'll sit down at seven-thirty. Reservations are essential, at the number below.

Keith Young’s Steak House. Madisonville: 165 LA. 21. 985-845-9940.

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