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Table of Contens 1 cocktails 3 wine by the glass 7 champagne 10 sparkling 10 rosé 11 white 13 sauvignon blanc 15 chardonnay 19 chenin blanc 19 grüner veltliner 20 riesling 20 alsacian nobles 21 cool whites 23 red 25 gamay 27 pinot noir 31 sangiovese 33 nebbiolo 35 other italian 37 syrah 39 grenache 40 merlot 41 cabernet franc 43 cabernet sauvignon 45 malbec 46 spanish wines 47 zinfandel 49 fortified & sweet 51 sherry 51 port 51 madeira 52 dessert wine 53 beer 55 cans 57 bottles 58 draft 59 spirits 61 bourbon 61 rye 61 canadian whiskey 62 irish whiskey 62 japanese whiskey 62 scotch 62 brandy / cognac 63 rum 63 tequila / mezcal 63 vodka 64 gin 64 liqueur 65 amaro 66 vermouth 1 Cocktails $12 Smoking in First Class Vida Mezcal, Aperol, Amaro Nonino, Lemon, Agave Nectar London's Falling Beefeater Gin, Orange Shrub, Curacao, Lemon, Bitters Scarlet Plunge Titos Vodka, Raspberry, Lime, Cocchi Dopo Tatro Vermouth Winter in Barbados Plantation 5 Dark Rum, Lime, Chai COCKTAILS 2 Chasing Chambery Northside Bourbon Co. - Dear Single Barrel 'Select', Dolin Blanc, Amaro Montenegro, Cynar Amaro Rose's Crutch Four Roses Bourbon, Maple Syrup, Amaro Averna, Orange Bitters Mind Your Manners El Jimador Blanco Tequilla, Grapefruit Lime Cordial, Apertivo Nonino, Lime The Crooked Kind Titos Vodka, Blackberry Liqeur, Lemon, Lime, Watermelon Cordial COCKTAILS 3 Wine by the Glass Sparkling Champagne J.L Vergnon 'Blanc de Blanc' Grand Cru 23 Les Mesnil Sur Oger, Côte de Blancs, France, NV Prosecco Scarpetta 12 Grave de Friuli DOC, Italy, NV Lambrusco Cleto Chiarli e Figli 'Vecchia Modena' 13 Modena, Emila-Romagna, Italy, NV Rosé Provence - Domaines de Triennes 12 Méditerranée IGP, Provence, France Heidi Schröck 'Rosé Biscaya' 13 Rüst, Neudiedlersee-Hügelland, Austria *1/2 Glasses are also available for 'by the glass' wines, ask your sommelier or server about menu pairings. WINE BY THE GLASS 4 White CHARDONNAY Jean-Philippe Fichet Bourgogne Blanc 18 Mersault, Burgundy, France | 2017 Matthiason ‘Village’ 15 Oak Knoll AVA, Napa Valley, California | 2019 PINOT BLANC Dönnhoff Weissburgunder 'Trocken' 14 Oberhauser, Nahe, Germany | 2018 PINOT GRIGIO Italo Cescon 'Tralcetto' 12 Treviso, Veneto, Italy | 2019 GRUNER VELTLINER Bründlmayer 'Terrassen' 13 Kamptal DAC, Austria | 2019 RIESLING Selbach-Oster 'Zeltinger Sonnenuhr' Kabinett 13 Zeltingen, Mosel, Germany | 2017 CHENIN BLANC Francois et Julien Pinon 'Silex Noir' 16 Vouvray AOP, Loire Valley, France | 2017 SAUVIGNON blanc Venica 'Ronco de Cero' 16 Dolegna, Friuli, Italy | 2019 VIOGNER Yves Cuilleron 16 WINE BY THE GLASS St. Joseph AOP, Northern Rhone, France | 2019 5 Wine by the Glass Red PINOT NOIR Dm. Arlaud ‘Roncevie’ Bourgogne Rouge 18 Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, France | 2018 Salem Wine Co. 17 Eola-Amity, Willamette, Oregon | 2018 SYRAH Domaine Faury 18 St. Joseph, Northern Rhone, France | 2018 NEBBIOLO Veglio Barolo 20 Barlo DOCG, Piemonte, Italy | 2015 CABERNET SAUVIGNON Sequoia Grove 20 Rutherford, Napa Valley, California | 2016 WINE BY THE GLASS 6 Red MENCIA Raúl Pérez 'Ultreia St. Jaques' 14 Bierzo, Castilla y Léon, Spain | 2018 GAMAY Domaine de Fa ‘En Besset’ Beaujolais Village 14 Beaujolais, Burgundy, France | 2018 GRENACHE BLEND Domaine Mikael Boutin 14 Rasteau, Southern Rhone, France | 2015 CABERNET FRANC Boundary Breaks 13 Lake Seneca AVA, Finger Lakes, NY | 2018 *1/2 Glasses are also available for 'by the glass' wines, ask your sommelier or server about menu pairings. WINE BY THE GLASS 7 Champagne Dear String of Pearls, The region of Champagne is in the far North of France where grapes struggle to ripen and maintain lots of tartness. The production of Champagne is the most complex and thought out winemaking in the world. There are huge producers and small farmers making a little wine, each with unique advantages to making quality bubbley. Like anywhere else, great Champagne starts with healthy grapes from a good vintage. And following, the winemaker will have to decide how long to age the wine on the dead yeast cells from fermentation (lees), which delivers its dough flavors and rounder texture. Champagne producers also need to consider whether to age their vin clairs (base wines) in oak which imparts nuttiness and spice. The addition of a small amount of sweet wine liquor called the dosage has a balancing and mouthcoating on the wines if applied, especially if the wine is very tart. Blanc Styles range from: Blanc de Blancs (ranges from sharp melon and mineral to honey and brioche) to bland de Noirs (weighty-texture and nutty) CHAMPAGNE 8 France Cote de Blancs J.L Vergnon 'Conversation' 77 Brut | NV (Les Mesnil sur Oger Grand Cru) Pierre Gimmonet 'Selection Belles Annes' 81 Brut | NV (Cuis) Chartogne Taillet 'Cuvee Ste. Anne' 91 Brut | NV (Merfy) Laherte Freres 96 Brut Nature | NV (Chavot) Pierre Peters 'Cuveé Reserve' 112 Brut | NV (Les Mesnil sur Oger Grand Cru) Pierre Gimmonet 'Special Club' 125 Brut | NV (Cuis) Laherte Freres 'Les 7' 125 Brut | NV (Chavot) Pierre Peters 'Reserve Oubliee' 130 Brut | NV (Les Mesnil sur Oger Grand Cru) Pierre Peters 'Chetillons' 160 Brut | 2013 (Les Mesnil sur Oger Grand Cru) Pierre Peters 'Chetillons' (1500ml) 310 Brut | 2013 (Les Mesnil sur Oger Grand Cru) CHAMPAGNE 9 Champagne France Valle de La Marne Mousse 'Perpetuelle' Blanc de Noirs 85 Brut | Cuisles | NV Henri Goutorbe 'Cuvee Prestige' 91 Brut | Aÿ | NV Marc Hebrart 'Special Club' (1500ml) 240 Brut | Mareuil-Sur-Aÿ | 2014 France Montagne de Reims Jean Lallement et Fils 85 Brut | Verzenay Grand Cru |NV Pehu Simonet 'Face Nord' 85 Brut | Verzenay/Verzy Grand Cru | NV Jean Vesselle 'Oeil de Perdrix' 88 Brut Rose | Bouzy | NV Vilmart and Cie 'Grand Cellier d'Or' 120 Brut | Rilly La Montagne | NV Krug 'Grande Cuveé' 195 Brut | Reims | NV Louis Roederer 'Cristal' 320 Brut | Reims | 2012 CHAMPAGNE 10 Sparkling Scarpetta 'Prosecco Brut' 38 Grave de Friuli DOC, Italy | NV Bisson 'Liguria Trevigiana' 39 Glera | Liguria, Italy | NV Sokol Blosser 'Bluebird Cuveé' 45 Willamette Valley, Oregon | 2019 Cleto Chiarli 'Vecchia Modena' Rosé 33 Lambrusco di Sorbara | Modena, Veneto, IT | NV Rosé Sokol Blosser 45 Pinot Noir | Willamette Valley, OR | 2019 Domaine Triennes 37 Cinsault | Provence, France | 2019 Thibaud Boudignon 39 Cabernet Franc | Anjou, France | 2019 Heidi Schrock 'Biscaya' 38 Red Blend | Burgenland, Austria | 2019 SPARKLING & ROS É 11 White 12 11 22 13 sauvignon blanc 15 chardonnay 19 chenin blanc 19 grüner veltliner 20 riesling 20 alsacian nobles 21 cool whites 13 Sauvignon Blanc Dear Savage Mother, Known as the Savage Vine due to its high maintenance wild growth. It is the mother to both Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon and shares a similar herbal bouquet of flavors. Sauvignon Blanc is one of the most diversely grown grapes around the world leading to a large range in styles. Flavors range from aggressively grassy to sweet and tropical. It can be zesty and light such as in cool climate examples or round and oaky from warmer terroirs. My first experience with Sauvignon Blanc was from New Zealand which is the most pronounced expression of Gooseberry and Grapefruit aromatics. During my studies for wine exams we used to put actual fruit and grass in wine glasses to practice getting these aromatics right. I remember drinking much more subtle expressions such as cool vintage Vacheron from Sancerre where the limestone minerality and grassiness comes into the fore, and we really had to search for those subtle citrus and tropical aromatics. Nonetheless, compared to other varietals, it is generally a highly aromatic grape by nature with notes of Grapefruit and Passionfruit. And It is a truly universally loved expressions of wine in the dining room, especially in the warm summer months. WHITE - SAUVIGON BLANC 14 France Chateau Graville Lacoste 41 Graves Blanc, Bordeaux | 2019 Goisot 'Exogryra Virgula' 45 St. Bris, Burgundy | 2018 Serge Dagueneau 54 Pouilly-Fumé, Loire | 2019 Gerard Boulay 68 Chavignol, Sancerre | 2019 Pascal Cotat 'Mont Damnes' 112 Chavignol, Sancerre | 2019 New Zealand Alan Scott 29 Marlborough | 2017 Italy Venica 'Ronco Del Cero' 55 Dolegna, Collio DOC | Friuli-Venzia, Giulia | 2019 WHITE - SAUVIGON BLANC 15 Chardonnay Dear Queen of the Land, Chardonnay is from the village of its namesake in the Macconais in Southern Burgundy. It is the Queen to whites, as Cabernet Sauvignon is King to reds, as it makes consistently complex, rich, and ageable wines. It is a seamlessly, and most-honestly conveys the minerality of the lands and climatic influence similar to Riesling. Chardonnay is very well integrated with production techniques like oak barrel ageing, lees contact (Gives biscuit, doughy richness), and malo-lactic (Which adds creaminess and sometimes buttery qualities to the wine). These facts along are why it uis best suited for Champagne production which relies on mineral base wines and ageing methods to create each houses style. Furthermore, globally Chardonnay is one of the most widely diversified wines in terms of styles and terroirs and can be found in nearly all great wine producing areas (Champagne, Australia, North America, Chile), though only a few are truly great. Harvesting Chardonnay in Burgundy at Dujac was an experience that changed the way I think about wine. Minimalistic intervention between the fields and the cellar resulting in truly fantastic wines with a distinct limestone minerality, flinty-toastiness, and round honeyed melon flavors that balanced with the keen acidity backbone. When compared to a harvest of Chardonnay I did in Friuli, Italy at Ronco de Gnemiz where warmer climates and different clones resulted in more exotic yellow peach flavors, rounded texture, and baking spiced oak aromatics in the wine. Similarly unique. One of my favorite memories was nosing a wine glass full of oyster shells and some fresh cut grass and then comparing it to a Louis Michel Chablis. The ancient seabed soils comprised of fossilized oyster shells were actually coming back to life in the wine, which was a truly magical moment.