Blue Danube: A Hungarian Wine Dinner - SOLD OUT

The wines of Hungary are the product of over 1200 years of melting together different cultures, religions, and ethnicities over a truly unique combination of geology and climate. Eric Danch is an expert on these unique wines, and he's coming to dinner to share a few of his favorites. Please join us for a special evening of good food, good wine, and great storytelling. 
 

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kohlrabi + apple soup, creme fraiche, black truffle
2012 Demeter Zoltán Hárslevelű, Tokaj

winter chopped salad, chicory, celery leaf, sprouted beans, pickled chile
2011 Fekete Béla Juhfark, Somló

pork loin, winter greens, smoked shallot, persimmon, jus / potatoes in duck fat with fresh horseradish
2009 J&J Kékfrankos Eged-Hegy,

buttermilk panna cotta, apple glee
2006 Dorogi 6 Puttonyos Tokaj Aszú 

At 15, Eric Danch started washing dishes at The Ranch House in Ojai, California. After 4 years, multiple titles, and nightly brown bag tastings with a sommelier with over 30 years experience, he became enamored with the story, culture, and community of wine. Moving to San Francisco in 2005 after two years living in Europe (Copenhagen & Rome), he found a job at Teatro Zinzanni, a 3-hour European cabaret meets Vaudevillian circus. 

After 6 years he left the circus to start an internship with Crushpad, a pioneering San Francisco Custom Crush that makes over 700 small lot wines for people all over the world. In 2010, Eric worked harvest for a small Berkeley winery called “A Donkey and Goat,” and did everything from grape to bottle including making his own barrel. D&G was named one of the Top 5 Winemakers to Watch in 2011 by the SF Chronicle. Eric joined Blue Danube in the Spring of 2011.
 

As the gateway between East and West, Central Europe has been largely defined by invasion, occupation and alliances despite thousands of years of winemaking. Blue Danube Wine Company was founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Frank Dietrich and Zsuzsanna Molnar in order to travel to this unique corner of the world and bring its wine culture back to the US market. Focusing on Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, and the Republic of Georgia, our goal is to seek out winemakers who truly capture the character of the land they come from. Indigenous grapes, winemaking traditions that predate Western Europe, and building meaningful long term relationships are the means to this end.