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Biodynamic Winery Strikes Gold

Healdsburg Winery gives wine lovers a taste of terroir and sense of place.

Quivira Vineyards & Winery was founded in 1981. Today, this family-owned winery is making headlines by making biodynamic farming away of life.  

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Quivira is a place first mentioned by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado in 1541, who visited it during his searches for the mythical "Seven Cities of Gold".

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Quivira is a certified Biodynamic vineyard farm  encompasses over 90 acres of vineyards and an extensive organic garden where they host quarterly Farm-to-Table dinners.

Spring Farm-to-Table Dinner at Quivira Vineyards.

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Saturday, May 28,  4 to 8 p.m.

Quivira Vineyards & Winery

4900 W. Dry Creek Road

Healdsburg, CA 95448

www.quivirawine.com     

Quivira’s Spring Farm-to-Table Dinner lets visitors experience, in an intimate setting, estate-produced wines paired with food sourced almost exclusively from the same farm. The result is a truly unique expression of terroir (loosely translated as “a sense of place”).

Quivira farm manager Andrew Beedy and winemaker Hugh Chappelle will explain what it means to farm biodynamically in the garden and in the vineyard. Local chef Joe Rueter will create an exquisite meal sourced mainly from the winery estate, paired with Quivira wines.

MENU:

-Quivira “Coq au Vin” Salad with “Chicken Fried” Quivira Hen’s Egg, Garden Butterfly Spinach & Pickled Green Tomato

-Quivira “Port” Glazed Estate Pork Belly Lardons with Pickled Quivira Garden Rhubarb & Spring Onion Fondue

-Quivira Estate Pork "Andouillette" Sausage with Quivira Garden Fava Bean Ragout & Garden Fennel-Orange Marmalade

-Black Olive Encrusted Three Graces Farm Rack of Lamb; Quivira Olive Oil Poached Red & Blue Potatoes

-Jersey Milk & Honey Crème Brule with Wine Poached Fig Ice Cream & Estate Spring Fig Chips

The five-course dinner will be in Quivira’s estate garden.  Wines will be paired with each course, and will include Quivira’s 2010 Viognier-Sauvignon Blanc, 2008 Grenache ‘Block 16,’ 2008 Mourvedre and 2009 Syrah ‘Hommage and 2010 Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc.’                

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