From the Archives Friday: "Local With Local" Beets Two Ways with Macari Vineyards 2007 Katherine's Field Sauvignon Blanc

Exploring the (accurate) cliché of "If it grows together, it goes together"

Happy Friday! Back in, I think, 2007 I launched a series called “Local with Local” on my old blog. For it, I partnered with Long Island chefs and Ellen Watson, a Long Island photographer, to come up with some pairings with local wines.

The process was pretty simple. I’d pick a wine and make sure that the chef got a bottle to taste. Then, he’d come up with a local, seasonal (truly seasonal, not like asparagus-on-menus-in-February-in-the-northeast seasonal) dish. He or she would share the recipe, and make the dish, and Ellen would go shoot it.

Now that I’ve expanded my coverage beyond Long Island — which means there are a lot more liked-minded chefs — and of course wines — to work with, I’m thinking about bringing this back.

This edition of “Local With Local” is from July of 2008. The wine was Macari Vineyards 2007 “Katherine’s Field” Sauvignon Blanc and the chef was Doug Gulija from The Plaza Cafe in Southampton, NY

Without further adieu, here is a re-publish of the original post, including chef Doug’s recipe:

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This edition of "Local With Local" features two (actually three) ingredients that I’m passionate about: local beets, Catapano Dairy goat cheese, and local sauvignon blanc.

When I asked my partner in this project, chef Doug Gulija from The Plaza Cafe in Southampton, to create a dish to serve with Macari Vineyards’ 2007 Sauvignon Blanc, he first thought about seafood, a natural companion, and the protein with which he does his wizardry at the restaurant. But, after tasting the wine in the dining room, with Joe and Alexandra Macari who were eating there, the chef was blown away, telling me afterward that he "really believes that it is one of the best sauvignon blancs the Island has produced."

But instead of pairing it with seafood, he went a different direction, coming up with Local Beet Carpaccio With Catapano Farms Goat Cheese Ravioli, to "accentuate the freshness, liveliness, and touch of herbaceousness" in the wine."