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FEBRUARY 13, 2021 | DISCOVER!
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Taste
This Weekend!
DON’T
MISS
OUT!
At a Glance:
WHAT: The Perfect Pair — food
and wine pairing dinner
WHERE: Calico Skies Vineyard
and Winery, 2368 Able Blvd., Inwood,
IA
WHEN: 6-9 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14
COST: $80 per person
CONTACT: 712-753-2110
ONLINE: www.calicoskieswine.
com
Menu:
COURSE ONE:
Antipasto Skewer //
Marquette Rose
Skewered mozzarella ball, roasted
red pepper, green olive, black
olive, artichoke heart and marinated
mushroom
COURSE TWO:
Sausage Potato Bisque //
Marquette
Creamy sausage, potato bisque
COURSE THREE:
Spinach Salad // Frontenac Gris
Fresh spinach, blueberries and
feta cheese drizzled with lemon
poppy seed dressing
COURSE FOUR:
Chicken Marbella // La Crescent
Grilled chicken breast with lemon,
olives, prunes and capers in a
white wine sauce
Creamy mashed potatoes lightly
seasoned with garlic
Sautéed Brussels sprouts lightly
seasoned topped with toasted
onion flakes
COURSE FIVE:
Shrimp Phyllo Cup // Shoreline
Crispy phyllo cup layered with
dill cream cheese, stuffed with a
jumbo shrimp and drizzled with
cocktail sauce
COURSE SIX:
Blue Cheese Pear Crostini // Late
Harvest Frontenac Gris
Garlic crostini topped with blue
cheese, sliced pear and chopped
walnuts drizzled with honey
COURSE SEVEN:
Chocolate Lava Souffle //
Frontenac
Individual chocolate cakes filled
with chocolate ganache topped
with fresh mint and raspberries
RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER
Perfect
THE
Valentine’s Dinner
at Calico Skies
After the past year anything that
seems somewhat normal is
particularly special.
That’s what’s in store for those who
sign up for The Perfect Pair, a food
and wine pairing dinner for Valentine’s
Day at Calico Skies Vineyard
and Winery in Inwood.
“We’re doing our normal sevencourse
dinner with wine and food
pairings and the same musician we
usually have — one of our most
popular with Elisabeth Hunstad,”
said vineyard owner Will Kimberley.
The event is scheduled for 6-9 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 14, and will cost $80
per person.
There will be just one departure
from the normal Valentine’s Dinner
— where in past years they’ve seated
everyone in the tasting room, this
time around dinner will be served in
the winery’s event space.
“We can be more spaced out but
still feel really intimate in there,”
Kimberley said. “People can sign up
as couples, or with another couple
as a group, they’ll just need to let us
PAIR
know as they sign up so we can sit
them together.”
Hunstad will provide musical entertainment
throughout the evening
as diners make their way through
seven delicious courses prepared by
Chef Matt Sapari of The Riviera in
Sioux Falls.
Each course will be matched perfectly
with one of the 14 wines or
four Champagnes made by Calico
Skies.
“Having these seven courses really
fills up the time perfectly. The whole
thing is a really fun experience,”
Kimberley said. “Chef Sapari we’ve
been working with for years and has
always done a really good job. We
ask him to put together a unique
menu that fits the occasion and that
you can’t get just anywhere. Then we
sit down with that menu and figure
out which wines work best with it.
We kind of mix it up between whites
and dry reds and Champagne. It’s a
nice diverse set of tastes that we have
put together.”
One wine that is certain to be on
the menu is the Deebo.
Named after the family chihuahua,
who also makes an appearance on
the label, the Deebo is a blend of
three wines and is their most popular
dry red.
“These will be the 2016 crop that
was in barrels for three years, so it’s
fun that these were grapes picked
over four years ago, were in barrels
for three years, bottled just over a
year ago and we’re drinking now. It’s
fun how that works out,” Kimberley
said. “We started making the Deebo
in 2012 and since then it’s been such
a popular wine for us. It’s a really
good one.”
And that’s just one of seven courses,
all perfectly paired.
For a normal, but very special, plan
on the Valentine’s Day celebration at
Calico Skies. F
Inwood | Iowa