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Cookery with Ursula Ferrigno  Having concluded our Summer schedule of lunches with the passionate Italian cook, prolific food writer and personality, Ursula Ferrigno, with a visit to Trentino Alto Adige, we are now in a position to confirm our Autumn schedule Please Note As usual lunch will start at 1.00pm and will include a glass of wine on arrival	Wine Club  The dates for our Autumn tastings have also been confirmed, when once again the taste buds can be titillated and tantalised and the mind enriched with knowledgeable comment on the wines and terroir. Each event starts at 19:15 with a wine tasting, followed at approximately 21:00 by a 3 course dinner with wine – finishing somewhere around 22:30
Sunday 21^st September ‘Returning from Tuscany’ £30.00 Ursula’s best recipes from autumn’s bountiful harvest in this memorable region will include amongst others: Gnocchi di Patate con salsa di noci [Gnocchi with walnut sauce] Cavolo nero con le fette [Tuscan black cabbage with cannelini beans Pane Toscan [Tuscan bread] Torta di mele con prugna [double crusted apple & plum tart] Sunday 19^th October ‘ Nonna’s Kitchen’ £30.00 Special recipes passed on to Ursula by her grandmother including: Canelloni [Spinach & ricotta] Torta Tarantina [potato & mozzarella cake] Pizza Bianca [white pizza] Torta di nocciole [hazelnut cake] Sunday 23^rd November ‘Classical Italian winter dishes’ £30.00 A collection of Ursula’s favourite winter warmers including Baccala [salt cod with tomatoes & basil] Lenticchie alla montanara [lentils with chestnut] Zeppole [honey & spice twists] Polenta con due salsa [polenta with two sauces] If you would like to assist Ursula during the morning – making bread, pasta soup and the sauces associated with these lunches- there are a limited number of places available. The cookery tuition will cost an extra £30 per person. You are advised to book early.	Monday 15^th September ‘Super Sauvignons’ £45.00 A chance to look at some stunning Sauvignons including some aged Sancerre from the Champault brothers and Pouilly Fume from Landrat Guyollot. Monday 13^th October ‘Chinon’ £45.00 We will be tasting some classic vintages from Philippe Alliet and Christophe Baudry including 1995 and 1996 as well as the fabulous Coteau de Noire from Alliet. Monday 17^th November ‘Cellar Raid’ £45.00 We will be delving into the RSJ archives to extract some of our remaining gems including classic Saumur Champignys from Jean-Pierre Chevallier and Thierry Germain as well as Joel Gigou’s 1990 Jasnieres and 1996 Sancerre Rouge from Vacheron. A discount of 7.5% is available for club members for the tastings, with any wines ordered on the night discounted by 10%. Some of our other renowned vignerons
Ursula preparing an Italian Sunday lunch And with some students	Christophe Daviau on the 2007 harvest When we started tracking the grapes’ maturity in late August we discovered that they were not as far advanced as we thought, so we expect to start on the Chenin either at the end of this coming week (23^rd Sept) or the start of next. The Cabernet we’ll start between the 5^th and 10^th of October. The mildew has been curiously patchy –up to 30% in some places, 5% in others. Fortunately the 3 good weeks we have had in September has dried everything up Jean Pierre Chevallier Having taught at Bordeaux University, Jean Pierre returned to the family home to make wine in the early 1990s. He is well pleased with his 2007 Saumur whites but the reds were more problematic. Around 75% of Jean-Pierre’s straight Saumur Blanc is now fermented in 400 litre barrels –producing a wine that is attractively lemony with just a discreet touch of wood.