At Lantern Table with Italy’s greatest red wines: a comparative tasting of old Barolo and Barbaresco. Proceeds to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
January 21st
6:30 pm
$250 per person (gratuity not included)
Lantern Table
hosted by Jay Murrie of Piedmont Wine Imports
Reserve your spot by calling 919-969-8846 today
Lantern cooks Piedmontese! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to eat family-style Italian fare prepared by the versatile Lantern table kitchen. There will be food, then wine, then more food! Then coffee, dessert, and happiness: we’re aiming for a perfect winter’s night. This will be a rare encounter with mature Nebbiolo from our favorite top-tier Barolo and Barbaresco producers. These wines are the center of the Italian wine universe and the soul of Piedmontese food.
Why are we doing this? Because it will be really fun (and we like fun) and at the end of the day, the money raised will enable life-saving research. I have a love of food, a career in wine, a baby girl with cystic fibrosis, and a long, happy connection to Lantern and the creative, kind people that make it the best place to eat in North Carolina. So this event just puts all the things I love and care about in a room together for a few hours. And I like charity events that give unique experiences to the generous participants. Altruism and happy memories should be combined.
The Wines
We will feature amazing old wines, vintage-of-the-decade bottles that have been carefully cellared in the childhood home of our Piedmontese-American friend Alessandra Trompeo, waiting for the right reason to emerge. Alessandra is newly American. She travels frequently between a life in central North Carolina and her family's ancestral home. We met years ago, during Alessandra's tenure at Chapel Hill Creamery, a trailblazing cheese producer located a few miles from my wine shop.
Alessandra's father was a doctor who loved wine from his homeland. In his cellar, gift bottles of Nebbiolo from grateful patients rested alongside cases of Barolo and Barbaresco that he would purchase from leading estates in the best vintages of the 1960's 70's and 80's.
After her father's passing, Alessandra showed me a list of their wine collection. It is impressive. Using some of his bottles to raise money for medical research made Alessandra and her mother happy. The doctor dedicated his life to medicine and cared deeply for the health of his community. The Trompeo family were certain it was an appropriate ending for the wines, and a plan Alessandra's father would have appreciated.
The Piedmontese are generous with both their wine and their time. For the first version of this event, held in Manhattan last October, our friend Franco Penna (winemaker at Cascina Barisel, in Canelli) inspected bottles and sent over the tastiest available options. His vetting was a success, so we’ll use the same methodology for our Lantern event: Franco will select a line-up that is currently delicious, and ship them over: tough work! So the final line-up is subject to change, depending on what Franco finds. As it stands the plan is to pour the following:
1971 Produttori del Barbaresco Vigneti Pora
1971 Azienda Moccagatta Barbaresco (MarioMinuto e Figli)
1971 Pio Cesare Barolo
1971 Carlo deltetto Barolo
… plus maybe a non-Nebbiolo apertivo.
Reasons to support the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation:
January 21st
6:30 pm
$250 per person (gratuity not included)
Lantern Table
hosted by Jay Murrie of Piedmont Wine Imports
Reserve your spot by calling 919-969-8846 today
Lantern cooks Piedmontese! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to eat family-style Italian fare prepared by the versatile Lantern table kitchen. There will be food, then wine, then more food! Then coffee, dessert, and happiness: we’re aiming for a perfect winter’s night. This will be a rare encounter with mature Nebbiolo from our favorite top-tier Barolo and Barbaresco producers. These wines are the center of the Italian wine universe and the soul of Piedmontese food.
Why are we doing this? Because it will be really fun (and we like fun) and at the end of the day, the money raised will enable life-saving research. I have a love of food, a career in wine, a baby girl with cystic fibrosis, and a long, happy connection to Lantern and the creative, kind people that make it the best place to eat in North Carolina. So this event just puts all the things I love and care about in a room together for a few hours. And I like charity events that give unique experiences to the generous participants. Altruism and happy memories should be combined.
The Wines
We will feature amazing old wines, vintage-of-the-decade bottles that have been carefully cellared in the childhood home of our Piedmontese-American friend Alessandra Trompeo, waiting for the right reason to emerge. Alessandra is newly American. She travels frequently between a life in central North Carolina and her family's ancestral home. We met years ago, during Alessandra's tenure at Chapel Hill Creamery, a trailblazing cheese producer located a few miles from my wine shop.
Alessandra's father was a doctor who loved wine from his homeland. In his cellar, gift bottles of Nebbiolo from grateful patients rested alongside cases of Barolo and Barbaresco that he would purchase from leading estates in the best vintages of the 1960's 70's and 80's.
After her father's passing, Alessandra showed me a list of their wine collection. It is impressive. Using some of his bottles to raise money for medical research made Alessandra and her mother happy. The doctor dedicated his life to medicine and cared deeply for the health of his community. The Trompeo family were certain it was an appropriate ending for the wines, and a plan Alessandra's father would have appreciated.
The Piedmontese are generous with both their wine and their time. For the first version of this event, held in Manhattan last October, our friend Franco Penna (winemaker at Cascina Barisel, in Canelli) inspected bottles and sent over the tastiest available options. His vetting was a success, so we’ll use the same methodology for our Lantern event: Franco will select a line-up that is currently delicious, and ship them over: tough work! So the final line-up is subject to change, depending on what Franco finds. As it stands the plan is to pour the following:
1971 Produttori del Barbaresco Vigneti Pora
1971 Azienda Moccagatta Barbaresco (MarioMinuto e Figli)
1971 Pio Cesare Barolo
1971 Carlo deltetto Barolo
… plus maybe a non-Nebbiolo apertivo.
Reasons to support the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation:
- In 1955 children born with cystic fibrosis often died before reaching elementary school. Today the predicted median age of survival for people with CF is more than 37 years.
- Virtually every approved CF drug available today was made possible because of CF Foundation support.
- The CF Foundation’s nationwide Care Center Network ensures that people with cystic fibrosis receive the best care possible–no matter where they live.
- The CF Foundation is one of the most effective and efficient organizations of its kind. It has received a four-star rating for sound fiscal management from Charity Navigator.
- The recently established Cystic Fibrosis Patient Assistance Foundation (CFPAF), provides financial assistance to CF patients for select medications.
- The CF Foundation is results driven with a proven proof of concept – an oral drug to affect the basic defect of the cf gene which is a roadmap toward a cure!