Our inaugural wine dinner!

We are celebrating another first in the newest El Gaucho.

Our first wine dinner at El Gaucho Bellevue was a smash hit! We appreciate fine wines along with our 28-day dry-aged Certified Angus Beef Prime steaks. We limited the number of guests for this dinner to maximize the experience and we had a hoot. Stephanie Child, one of the dinner participants, took a few photos including this signed menu.

The menu presented by our Chef de Cuisine, Steve Cain, was a huge success. And the wines were equally well received. If you’ve ever met Chris Sparkman of Sparkman Cellars, then you know that you can combine a witty spirit and the appreciation of fine wine. You combine “Sparky” with another Southern boy, Rob Newsome of Boudreaux Cellars, and you are in for a great time. The two Southern boys offered their fine wines along with their entertaining hospitality. Mix a few on-edge Southern jokes with some guitar singing, and they soon had the whole room singing Rocky Top Tennessee, and some Hank Williams Jr. tunes. The winemakers provide the words and the guests loved every minute of it. At that time, of course, I had not been drinking so my singing was kept to the minimum - to say the least! My wine dinners have always been more about fun rather than being too technical. I get great satisfaction when our guests meet and share a special dinner experience -- as they usually do.The wines were fabulous, well crafted and award winning. Sparkman provide their Lumier Chardonnay, Wilderness Red blend and King Pin Cabernet Sauvignon. Newsome provided a Boudreaux Syrah, a fine Cabernet, and brought his award winning Reserve Cabernet.

Hope to see you at our big summer Wine Event: Pour on the Plaza coming August 8th. We’ll be pouring from 20 wineries – outside - on the grass of our our acre plaza!