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California Cabernet Sauvignon Tasting at Café Maxx
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 07:00 PM
Everyone loves immediate gratification and California Cabernet Sauvignon ranks highest among most wine lovers when it comes to immediate gratification wines. Tonight's tasting will feature wines from Napa Valley, Sonoma Valley, Paso Robles and Mendocino County. News Flash- the last two vintages have been very short with many producers claiming 50% losses in production for 2011 contributed to bad conditions at flowering and rain at harvest which dramatically reducing yields as well as making it challenging to produce high quality wines. What does this mean to California Cabernet Sauvignon lovers? We have a strong recommended buy in this category for the next 3-6 months as the prices have nowhere to go but up from here and there are two great vintages, 2008 and 2009 in the marketplace right now.
Chef Oliver Saucy will be sending out a few small courses to accompany the tasting wines. The fee for this event is $35 + tax, for reservations call 954-782-0606.
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Café Maxx Cooking Class
Thursday, May 23 , 201 3 - 05:00 PM
Italian Cuisine
Menu
Warm Burratta mozzarella with pesto,Tuscan chopped salad and crostini
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Seared sea scallops, orzo pasta soufflé, garlic spinach & marinara sauce
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Asparagus and crab ravioli with truffle butter, basil and cherry tomatoes
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Veal tenderloin and soft gorgonzola polenta and cipollini onions
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Pennetone bread pudding with orange crème
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Join Oliver and company for their 22nd season of cooking classes. Chef Oliver's innovative and inspirational style of cooking and teaching enables participants to leave with greatly enhanced cooking skills and a better understanding of modern culinary principles. Plus, you'll learn the "how to's" of simplifying home entertaining. For those who have not attended a class, we set the room for 5:00 PM every 2nd or 3rd Thursday of the month and hold an open forum culinary demonstration. Oliver is joined by his staff along with expert wine sommelier Andrew Lampasone (of the Wine Watch) providing valuable information on food & wine pairings and other interesting winery particulars. Each class is then followed by a sit-down dinner and wine tasting, sampling the foods we've just prepared (it's really more like "Eater-Tainment).
Cost for this event is $65 + tax + gratuity for reservations call 954-782-0606.
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NEIGHBORHOOD NIGHTS at CAFÉ MAXX
Beginning Sunday, May 26 2013
“NEIGHBORHOOD NIGHTS”, is our answer to Florida's “Staycation” For those of you who are going to be here for the summer months, relax and enjoy a small slice of luxury right around the corner! Join Darrel & Oliver for dinner, and relax while the summer heats up.
This promotion will be offered four nights a week, every Sunday through Wednesday, beginning Sunday, May 26th, through September 30.
Enjoy this summer long promotion featuring an amazing three course summer menu for $35 dollars. Chef Oliver has been working with his purveyors to provide us with the freshest ingredients at their peak of flavor and value. Oliver and staff will be highlighting seasonal favorites from our ever changing menu. The NEIGHBORHOOD NIGHTS menu will be updated monthly.
Café Maxx $35 Summer Menu
NOT VALID WITH OTHER PROMOTIONS
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Southern Rhone Wine Tasting at Café Maxx
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 06:30 PM
Start with the 2007 vintage- this could very well be one of the greatest vintages of all time for the Rhone Valley. If you follow the venerable Robert Parker Jr. you have heard that it is the best vintage he has ever tasted in his 30+ years of traveling to this region.
Although the 2008 vintage is getting very little attention from collectors, it is a very nice vintage to drink while you are waiting for the 2007's to mature in your cellar. Also many of the top producers did not make their most prestigious bottling in 2008, so all these grapes went into their other cuvees. At a cheaper price than 2007 the 2008 vintage is an excellent value.
Then, there is the epic 2009 and 2010 vintages. These two vintages were amazing all over France and although they are very different in style they both will go down in the annals of Rhone wine history as two of the top vintages in modern times for different reasons. The 2009's feature gorgeous forward fruit and incredible concentration and depth of flavors. The 2010 vintage is a classic year and could surpass even the highly touted 2007's as one of the longest lived wines in the history of this storied wine region.
Finally the newly released 2011 which also looks like another incredible vintage but much more forward and charming in style, just as showy as 2009 but not as concentrated and age worthy but these wines are great choices to drink today as you wait for the 2007, 2009 and 2010 vintages to mature in your cellar.
These Wednesday tastings are some of the best values of any event that we do anywhere. We are pouring 8 wines from Cotes du Rhone to Chateauneuf du Pape and Chef Oliver Saucy will be sending out a few small courses to accompany the tasting wines. The fee for this tasting is $35 + tax, for reservations call 954-782-0606.
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