Foradori Wines and a Duck Press in Minneapolis

Posted by foodwineclick on October 19, 2017 · 7 Comments

Foradori Teroldego from the Morei vineyard

Foradori Wines Visit Minneapolis
I’m a big fan of Foradori wines, artisan made wines featuring native grapes from the Trentino-Alto Adige Region of Northeast Italy. The best known personality at Foradori is Elisabetta Foradori, although today it is a full family operation with her adult children Theo, Myrtha and Emilio. This week, I had the opportunity to meet Theo Zierock from the winery at a wine dinner at Grand Cafe in Minneapolis. Grand Cafe is the brainchild of Erik Anderson and Jamie Malone. It’s the closest thing we have in Minneapolis to a neighborhood French café. The newest toy at the café is their duck press, a classic french tool for extracting the highly flavored juices from the carcass of the duck. A luscious sauce is made at the table from the juices. Come along to our evening at Grand Cafe with Theo Zierock! (click on any photo for a full size slide show, “escape” to return).

Theo Zierock told us all about the winery history and what to expect in the future

With Jamie Malone in the house, you know the seafood will be delicious

The Foradori whites are vinified on the skins, giving them a gentle savory character

Nosiola is a native to the Trentino region

Black truffle omelet with Teroldego for a second course

Erik started prepping the sauce before the duck press was put to use

Granato is Foradori’s signature Teroldego

Theo came by to explain the history of the flagship Granato.

Presses are rare objects, I understand this one was rescued and refurbished

There it is, the goal of the duck press

It goes into the sauce

Erik came over to spoon sauce onto every plate. How cool is that?

All I can say is that you need to go to Grand Cafe when they’re serving pressed duck. The sauce is the essence of duck.

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7 Responses to “Foradori Wines and a Duck Press in Minneapolis”

Lynn says:

October 20, 2017 at 4:33 am

Looks like a fabulous evening Jeff! Checking out the wines, excited to find and taste some of these heritage grape varieties from Foradori. And the duck press- that’s a new one for me, very cool ;-D

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- foodwineclick says:
  
  October 20, 2017 at 12:56 pm
  
  The Foradori wines are wonderful, I’ve been a fan for quite a while. If you ever get the chance, Gordon Ramsay’s 2 star restaurant at the Intercontinental hotel has a large sterling silver lobster press. It’s an object to behold!
  
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Peter Burrows says:

October 20, 2017 at 6:12 am

Is this what you’ll be asking for from Santa this year?

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- foodwineclick says:
  
  October 20, 2017 at 12:57 pm
  
  Available on Amazon for only $2000. My plan is to have a really good item at #2 on the list, so Julie can pass by #1 and get the next best thing. Voila!
  
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Martin D. Redmond says:

October 20, 2017 at 10:14 am

Teroldego! Now there’s a grape variety you don’t see everyday! Cheers Jeff!

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- foodwineclick says:
  
  October 20, 2017 at 12:58 pm
  
  Thanks Martin. I’m not sure if there is even anyone else actively growing it. The Foradori wines are really nice.
  
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  - Martin D. Redmond says:
    
    October 20, 2017 at 2:09 pm
    
    There’s at least one CA producer doing it – Urban Legend in Oakland. They do a nice job with it. Would be interesting to taste them side by side..