Brescome Barton hosted a wine-pairing dinner featuring wines from Napa Valley’s Far Niente at Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Newington on June 23. Guests enjoyed a five-course meal prepared by the culinary team at Ruth’s Chris paired with different wines, including Far Niente’s En Route Pinot Noir, Bella Union Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay, concluding with Dolce Late Harvest Wine paired with dessert. Founded in 1885 by John Benson, an original forty-niner of the California gold rush, Far Niente was abandoned with the start of Prohibition and renovated in the late 1970s. Far Niente Winery Estate is renowned for its Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, which is rich in structure and layered in flavors of cassis and blackberry notes with its signature spicy oak aromas, and its Napa Valley Chardonnay, made from grapes grown in its Coombsville vineyards, whose gravelly loam and volcanic ash soils impart both subtle tropical fruit flavors and complex aromas.

Photos by Michael Leung.