Wednesday Dinner @ PDH (Midtown)

I can't believe that our previous dinner at Peking Duck House was June 25th! The only way to fix that is to schedule a dinner there!

Please join Jared and myself at Peking Duck House Midtown for a Wednesday night dinner.

NOTE: This is a family-style dinner. It will include 2 portions of the restaurant's Peking Duck entree. Do not sign up unless you are prepared to eat family style.

We will have 4 white wines, including an aged CA Chardonnay, 2 Rieslings, a German Pinot Gris/Pinot Noir rose and 1 CA Cabernet Sauvignon.

We will be ordering family-style (all for sharing), and we'd be splitting the bill equally (plus 33% for tax and tip). The cost for dinner will be $75 per person, including the tax and tip. The menu will be as follows.

Spring Roll and Barbecued Beef as appetizers, a choice of soup,
(Hot & Sour or House Special Duck Soup)
Two Peking Ducks, Crispy String Beans w. Minced Pork and a group choice (meaning we will work it out at the dinner) of 3 additional entrees w/ Fried Rice.

Just a reminder of our usual rules:

** The cost of this event is $46 and is for the cost of the wines and corkage. Peking Duck House does charge corkage per bottle, and that's included in the event fee.

NOTE: Meetup charges a "Partner Fee" that is above and in addition to the listed price of the event. It is annoying and confusing, but there is nothing I can do about it. It comes to approximately $4 more for each RSVP. You will see this charge when you complete your rsvp and pay for the event. Sorry!

Please read and understand the group's cancellation policy. If you take spot, then cancel, and no one else takes the spot, you will not receive a refund or credit. No refunds or credits will be given for no-shows or late cancellations (unless someone else takes your spot). All cancellations are subject to a $6 service fee.

Please use public transportation - NO DRINKING AND DRIVING!

The Wines (notes will be distributed at the dinner):

2024 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Alte Reben trocken ($46) - A German Riesling and here is what the importer said, ""The 2024er Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Trocken GG is a bone-dry wine (with less than 2 g/l of residual sugar) made from fruit picked in the prime Falkenberg part of the vineyard. This wine offers a gorgeous nose made of passion fruit, lemon, pear, green apple, apricot blossom, and fine spices. It is beautifully intense and superbly focused on the impeccably dry palate and leaves a juicy and still subtly tart feel of minerals and passion fruit at this stage in the long and mouthwatering finish. This will need time to express itself and reveal its underlying complexity. It could then easily exceed our high expectations! 2028-2039" 93+ Mosel Fine Wines"

2023 Loersch Trittenheimer Apotheke Riesling Jungheld GG trocken ($52) - While this was presented by the importer as "BONE DRY", I personally found it tasted more Off-Dry. It should go great with the food at Peking Duck House.

2016 Montelena Chardonnay ($50) - YES, the same wine (albeit a different vintage) as the Chardonnay from famous Paris Tasting. It is aged, but recent reviews have been great! JD 90 points, "Sourced mostly from a tiny site in Oak Knoll, the 2016 Chardonnay Napa Valley sees no malolactic fermentation and is brought up in 10-20% new French oak. It's a steely, racy effort that has pretty notes of tart citrus, apple blossom, lemon, and hints of minerality, Clean, medium-bodied, very vibrant and fresh, it's balanced and lengthy. It's going to age as well."

NV Sven Enderle Pinot Noir Alea ($21) - A One Time wine from Sven Enderle of Germany. It's a blend of Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir. Here is what the importer said, "From the 2022 vintage, Sven made a longer skin contact Pinot Gris wine (roughly 8 or 9 days), aka an orange wine. Following the wine's evolution, he was never really pleased/thrilled with the wine, so he continued to wait to see if it would evolve in a promising direction with time and patience. A year later, during the 2023 harvest, there were a lot of Pinot Noir grapes that were not tip top ideal for making his red wines. Given such circumstances, he decided to make a rosé wine with the Pinot Noir fruit that didn't make the cut, as you can make perfectly good and quaffable rose wine with mostly free run juice and limited skin contact. He then got a bit experimental and tried to blend a small amount of the 2022 Pinot Gris orange wine with the juicy juiciness of the 2023 Pinot Noir rosé, and really liked the interplay/complexity of the combination. He went whole hog and blended all of it together, which is how this totally tasty oddity was born. There is both aromatic and flavor complexity from the Pinot Gris, as well as some textural chewy appeal that orange wines allow for, as well as the juiciness and perfume of the Pinot Noir rosé component."

2015 Frank Family Cab Sauvignon ($60) - WA 90 points, "Blended of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc, the deep garnet-purple colored 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon has a nose of cassis, blackberries and black cherries, with cedar, Marmite toast and pencil shavings nuances. Medium to full-bodied and firm in the mouth, it has a decent core but is simple and a tad lacking in persistence."