JJ Prum Tasting and first night of service/drinking at Wine Watch Wine Bar

“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
- Frank Sinatra

We love all 4000+ different bottles of wine that we have in stock and now you can come down to the Wine Watch Wine Bar and love them in our new space at the same price you pay to take them home!  Yes!  We are officially open across the street from Progresso Plaza with our new space and are celebrating tonight with our first “Happy Hour” at Wine Watch Wine Bar.  Toni will be making a special menu for the JJ Prum wines that we are featuring and you can sign up to experience all of Toni’s tasty treats paired to JJ Prum’s 2015 vintage Rieslings or just taste the JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett 2015 for FREE just for coming down to see the new space.  

This is how our first night will work, we open for Happy Hour at 4:30pm at the Wine Watch Wine bar and we will offer all our patrons the below menu items while supplies last along with the selections of cheese and cured meats.

You need to make a reservation if you want to experience the Wine Pairing Dinner at 7:30 but you can just stop by anytime till 11pm to have a glass of wine with us this evening and check out our new cellar and Toni’s new kitchen!

Check out the new section of our web-site Wine Watch Wine Bar for tonight’s menu along with our cheese and Charcuterie selections you can pre-order your food and wine selections we will have them ready when you get here!  Simply order them on-line and send an e-mail andy@winewatch.com to let me know what time you will be here and I will have your wine and food ready.

The wines that we have on the walls at the Wine Bar are also available in the Wine Bar Selections section but you can pick any wine that we have in our inventory if you order before 3pm and we will have it ready to go after 6pm. 

First Happy Hour at Wine Watch Wine Bar
Friday, June 15th
4:30pm

Tasting Menu
Seared Foie Gras Sushi with Strawberries Rhubarb and balsamic glaze
Foie Gras Torchon Sushi with grilled Pineapple and Mango drizzled with Riesling wine vinegar
Pork Panang served over creamy White Grits
Pork Belly with Orange Marmalade Glaze
Blue Cheese Crème Brulee
Mascarpone panna cotta with Raspberry Jelly and dark chocolate cookie crumble

Amuse Bouche – FREE of Charge

Pomme Frites Citron Gremolata
JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett 2015

A La Carte

Fried Prosciutto and Reggiano Parmesan dusted Shoestring Potatoes
$8

Cheese and Charcouterie
(all cheese and Cured meats are served by the ounce)

Beemster Gouda aged 2 years
Price: $3.00

Beemster mild cheese makes a perfect first-impression for food lovers looking for a introduction to our family of fine artisan Gouda cheeses. Look out cheddar! Rich, savory, and creamy-sweet; Beemster mild is your new favorite gourmet cheese for sandwiches, snacks, sauces, and party platters.

Turtle Creek Goat Cheese
Price: $3.00

A local farm from Loxahatchee Florida makes this creamy style of Goat Cheese that is the perfect pairing for Champagne.

Valdeon Deep Sharp Blue
Price: $3.00

This blue cheese is made with cow and goat’s milks at the base of the Picos de Europa in the town of Posada de Valdeón. A family runs the entire operation, everything from making the cheese to aging it and then selling it. They created it when the D.O.P. for Cabrales formed and dictated that Cabrales could only be made in the town of the same name. Valdeón is sought after because it is milder than D.O.P. Cabrales, yet retains an excellent balance of sweet, spicy and earthy flavors. A Silver Award at the World Cheese Awards in 2015

Beehive Applewood Smoked White Cheddar
Price: $3.00

When you take a bite of Beehive Cheese, it melts like butter in your mouth. That’s because Beehive Cheese is made from the creamiest milk in Utah and lovingly crafted into superior cheese by a family who shares a passion for the artisan way of life.

Barely Buzzed (Cocoa Bean & Lavender Crusted)
Price: $3.00

Unique espresso and lavender hand-rubbed cheese with subtle notes of butterscotch and caramel. Made from the milk of Jersey cows; this is a full-bodied cheese with a smooth, creamy texture. Barely Buzzed is our most popular cheese and is considered by many to be a great American original.

Manchengo 12 month aged
Price: $3.00

The Manchego is produced in the La Mancha region of Spain, which is also home to Don Quixote. It is made from unpasteurised sheep's milk. It is one of the popular cheeses from Spain, made from sheep's milk. It also comes under the PDO guidelines.

Viejo - Manchego cheese aged for a year becomes crumbly in texture while the interior of the cheese acquires a butterscotch colour. It has a sweet, lingering taste.

Parmigiano Reggiano cheese aged 2 years
Price: $3.00

Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese is often one of the most expensive cheeses when it is bought at delicatessen counters or at supermarkets. However, we can make some considerations in this respect and prove that it is not exactly like that. First of all, it is a hard-paste and long-maturation cheese. This means that its water content is only approximately 30%, i.e. it is a highly concentrated cheese, where the nourishing substances present in milk (casein, fat, mineral, vitamins, etc.) undergo a special drying process, or more appropriately dehydration process, both during production in the dairy and in the maturation rooms. Therefore, when you buy a hundred grams of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, you are actually taking home about 70% nourishing substances. Instead, if you buy other soft or fresh cheeses (which can also be very tasty) the water content can be up to 50%. The quantity of nourishing substances bought is definitely not the same.

Proscuitto San Danielle
Price: $3.00

Prosciutto di San Daniele is produced only in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, in the hilly area around the town of San Daniele in the province of Udine, in the extreme north-eastern part of Italy. Recognisable by its typical guitar-like shape, the presence of the trotter and the Consortium brand, Prosciutto di San Daniele  is made solely of the meat of pigs born and bred in Italy and sea salt. It is a natural food product with no additives or preservatives of any kind. Its high nutritional value and ease of digestion make it suitable for any type of diet.

Iberico Chorizo
Price: $4.00

This delicious chorizo is a dry-cured sausage made from the famous Ibérico pork of Spain. Seasoned with the smoky paprika from western Spain, it has a deep red color and a complex meaty flavor. Slice thinly and serve with fresh bread and a glass of great Spanish wine.

Salumi Cacciatori Principe
Price: $4.00

Traditional small-size salami, ruby-red, dry and compact with a delicate smell and sweet taste. The small, hand-tied size makes it particularly suitable for the needs of today’s eating habits, providing for an always fresh product to be consumed quickly but entirely.

Foie Gras Sushi
3 Pieces of each $20

Seared Foie Gras Sushi with Strawberries Rhubarb and balsamic glaze
Foie Gras Torchon Sushi with grilled Pineapple and Mango drizzled with Riesling wine vinegar

2006 Joh Jos Prum Riesling Auslese Wehlener Sonnenuhr Gold Cap (375ml)  
3 ounces $37.50

Meat Course
Pork Panang served over Creamy White Grits
$12
Pork Belly with Orange Marmalade Glaze served over Creamy White Grits
$12

2015 JJ Prum Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese
Price: $12.50/7 ounces

Fish Course

Prociutto Wrapped U10 Scallop with JJ Prum Riesling citrus Beurre blanc
$14

2015 JJ Prum Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Auslese
Price: $14.50/7 ounces

(94 Points) "The 2015 Graacher Himmelreich Auslese (AP 16) displays a very clear, precise and flinty/smoky bouquet of perfectly ripe stone fruits and crushed stones, intertwined with lemon flavors. This Auslese is enormously mouth-watering, incredibly piquant and salty, with an endless flow of lush fruit juice and melting minerals. This is a great Riesling and a digestible, picture-book Auslese." The Wine Advocate

Dessert Course
Blue Cheese Crème Brulee
$10
Mascarpone panna cotta with Raspberry Jelly and dark chocolate cookie crumble
$10

2006 Joh Jos Prum Riesling Auslese Wehlener Sonnenuhr Gold Cap (375ml)  
3 ounces $37.50

All Service charges and Corkage fees are included in the price of the food!

German wines can be hard to pronounce and a little difficult for wine novices to understand as the new wave of German wines are becoming dryer and dryer.  One producer that we have counted on every year for consistency and quality is JJ Prüm. 

Dr. Prüm was chosen Winemaker of the Year in 1996 and had the collection of the year in 2007 by The Gault-Millau/German Wine Guide. Since 1156 the Prüms have called the village of Wehlen home.  The Prüm estate as we know it today began with Sebastian Alois Prüm (1794-1871); his brother Jodocus constructed the Wehlener and Zeltinger sundials. Of his six sons only Mathias (1835-1890) married. In 1911 the estate was split amongst Mathias’s four sons and three daughters. It was when his oldest son, Joh. Jos. Prüm, started the estate. Joh. Jos. Prüm was in poor health when his son Sebastian took over in 1920 and went on to establish the world repute of the estate which continues to this day. After his death in 1969, his son Dr. Manfred Prüm assumed the responsibility and today Manfred and his oldest daughter, Katharina work in parallel to manage the estate. It’s most important vineyard holdings are the Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Graacher Himmelreich, Zeltinger Sonnenuhr and Bernkasteler Badstube. The vineyards are planted 95% Riesling. The Joh. Jos. Prüm estate ferments its Riesling almost exclusively with indigenous yeast. Annual production is 15,000 cases.

Join us as we experience the new releases from this epic producer from the Mosel.  The 2015 vintage is being touted as exceptional from the press but you can form your own opinion about these wines as we are giving you a chance to taste these wines first hand and experience a tasting menu prepared by Toni Lampasone for this special evening.  This is a seated event and there are only 16 spaces available for this tasting.  The fee for this tasting is $75 + tax, for reservations call 954-523-9463 or e-mail andy@winewatch.com.

Joh. Jos. Prüm Wine Dinner at Wine Watch Wine Bar
Friday, June 16th
7:30pm

JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett 2015 (Magnum)
Price: $89.00       Sale $78.32

JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett 2015   
Price: $31.75       Sale $27.94          Case $324

Despite its still youthful freshness it shows the fine fruity Riesling characteristic and an underlying hint of mineral from the blue/grey Devonian slate soil.

JJ Prum Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Spätlese 2015   
Price: $38.50       Sale $33.88          Case $393
                  
This vineyard site features weathered Devon slate and also has parts with blue slate and traces of loam.

JJ Prum Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese 2015   
Price: $41.50       Sale $36.52          Case $424

In the best parts similar to Wehlener Sonnenuhr.

2015 JJ Prum Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Spatlese (Magnum)
Price: $99.00    Your Price: $79.20
Quantity in Stock: 2

2015 JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spätlese  
Price: $41.50       Sale $36.52          Case $424

The terroir here features very deep soiled (great water maintenance), weathered devon slate but also shows pockets of blue slate.

JJ Prum Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Auslese 2015   
Price: $49.75       Sale $43.78          Case $508

David Schildknecht has noted that "consistent excellence – like age worthiness – has long been a hallmark of Joh. Jos. Prum Rieslings."

2015 JJ Prum Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Auslese Magnum
Price: $114.00    Your Price: $91.20
Quantity in Stock: 3

2015 JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese  
Price: $49.75       Sale $43.78          Case $508

(94 Points) "The 2015 Graacher Himmelreich Auslese (AP 16) displays a very clear, precise and flinty/smoky bouquet of perfectly ripe stone fruits and crushed stones, intertwined with lemon flavors. This Auslese is enormously mouth-watering, incredibly piquant and salty, with an endless flow of lush fruit juice and melting minerals. This is a great Riesling and a digestible, picture-book Auslese." The Wine Advocate

JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese 2015   
Price: $56.50       Sale $49.72          Case $577

JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese 2015 (Mangum)
Price: $127.00    Sale $111.76      

Pale straw. Very rich and racy with some nuttiness underneath and massive passion fruit acidity. Masses of extract and already quite a bit of sweetness is evident. This should evolve into something very special. 18.5/20 points (6/2016) Jancis Robinson

Menu
Seared Foie Gras Sushi with Strawberries Rhubarb and balsamic glaze
Foie Gras Torchon Sushi with grilled Pineapple and Mango drizzled with Riesling wine vinegar
Pork Loin Panang over creamy White Grits
Pork Belly with Orange Marmalade Glaze
Blue Cheese Crème Brulee
Mascarpone panna cotta with Raspberry Jelly and dark chocolate cookie crumble

The fee for this dinner is $75 + tax, for reservations call 954-523-9463 or e-mail andy@winewatch.com