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January 2011

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WINE PAIRING A Night at photos by Maria Schriber California Roy’s customers responded with great enthusiasm. W On one particular evening this past November, the entire restaurant was sold out for a Ferrari-Carano wine dinner, paired with specially matched dishes created by Yamaguchi. Ferrari-Carano’s winemaker for white wines, Sarah Quider, flew down from Sonoma to join Anthony Dias Blue and Meridith May of THE TASTING PANEL, along with the magazine’s KABC Los Angeles radio show “Taste Buds” co-host Merrill Shindler to meet and greet Roy and talk wine and food with the dining guests. hen Roy Yamaguchi left the Hawaiian Islands to make a visit to the bedroom community of Woodland Hills, his staff and loyal Southern Roy’s THE TASTING PANEL CHECKS IN WITH ROY YAMAGUCHI FOR A SPECIAL FERRARI-CARANO WINE DINNER Anthony Dias Blue with Roy Yamaguchi at Roy’s in Woodland Hills, CA. Meridith May, Publisher/Executive Editor of THE TASTING PANEL, with SoCal Zagat editor and KABC radio personality Merrill Shindler, Ferrari-Carano winemaker Sarah Quider and THE TASTING PANEL’s Editor-in-Chief, Anthony Dias Blue. 38 / the tasting panel / january–february 201 1 Bart Cannizzaro Jr., Managing Partner of Roy’s Woodland Hills, with a bottle of Ferrari-Carano Russian River Tre-Terre Chardonnay. The 2008 vintage (SRP $30) richly captures notes of lychee, pear and nutmeg. It is paired with Roy’s risotto Milanese, Pecorino Romano and tomato air. Ferrari-Carano’s magnificent proprietary blend, Trésor 2006, combines the five classic Bordeaux grapes for a lush, gobby fruit–filled experience of black cherries and plum with a backdrop of cedar and black tea. A 48- hour marinated Wagyu short rib dish was a great match with this richly textured wine.

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