PATRIMONY Estate Wine Dinner

Thursday, August 27

$325 per person. Twenty seats.

The Aqua dining room is the most requested room at The Penthouse. Ocean in every window, eighteen floors up. We have never opened it for a private experience. On Thursday, August 27, we are opening it for one.

PATRIMONY Estate joins us for a five course dinner built by Executive Chef Jōb Carder, with five allocated wines poured alongside representatives from the estate.

The evening begins at six with a tray passed Petrossian Caviar reception in the Sunset Lounge, before guests move into Aqua Dining Room for dinner.

The Estate

PATRIMONY Estate sits on DAOU Mountain in the Adelaida District of Paso Robles at 2,000 feet of elevation and roughly fourteen miles from the Pacific. Brothers Daniel and Georges Daou spent years searching California for calcareous clay soils that behave the way Bordeaux behaves. They found them here.

What the mountain gives them is fruit with high phenolics, the compounds behind color, structure and texture. The wines that follow are Bordeaux varietals with real power that never trade away acidity or freshness. They are made in very small quantities and released by allocation, with a waitlist. Five of them are being poured on August 27.

The Evening

6:00 PM, The Sunset Lounge
Tray passed Petrossian caviar reception with a glass of sparkling wine

Dinner, The Aqua Dining Room
Five courses, each paired with a PATRIMONY wine

The evening concludes at approximately 9:30 PM.

The Menu

RECEPTION
tray passed

Smoked Salmon Gougère
horseradish, Petrossian trout roe

Champagne & Caviar
sparkling rosé gelée, Petrossian Royal Daurenki caviar, crème fraîche

FIRST
Lobster Potage
chilled lobster consommé, poached lobster, carrot purée, baby heirloom tomato, poached romanesco, cumin whipped ricotta
2023 PATRIMONY Blanc

SECOND
Summer Truffle & Wild Mushroom Mille-Feuille
24-month aged Parmigiano Reggiano mousse, toasted hazelnuts, gruyère soubise
2022 PATRIMONY Merlot

THIRD
Liberty Duck Galantine
currant gastrique, pickled black cherries, fingerling confit, fig & mustard aspic
2022 PATRIMONY Cabernet Franc

FOURTH
Surf & Turf
Flannery Beef 14-day dry aged filet mignon, Santa Barbara uni & rock crab koshka, charred summer shallot, celery root pavé, kombu bordelaise
2022 PATRIMONY Cabernet Sauvignon

FIFTH
Cacao Noir & Cassis
chocolate crémeux, cassis confit, cocoa sablé, olive oil & sea salt ganache
2021 PATRIMONY Caves des Lions

Menu is subject to change based on seasonality and farmer's market availability.

The Wines

2023 PATRIMONY Blanc
Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon aged fourteen months in French oak, which is not how most California whites are made. It gives this one the weight to sit beside lobster and the acidity to cut cumin whipped ricotta. Honeysuckle and stone fruit up front, apricot and orange zest across the palate, wet stone running underneath all of it.

2022 PATRIMONY Merlot
Merlot grown on the same mountain as the Cabernet, which means structure rather than softness. Dark and plush with a savory core, and enough grip to hold its own against summer truffle, aged Parmigiano and toasted hazelnut.

2022 PATRIMONY Cabernet Franc
Red plum and raspberry over black tea, graphite and the herbal snap that makes Cabernet Franc what it is. Blackberry and smoked meat on the palate, with acidity that lifts the whole thing. Poured with the duck for the currant gastrique and the pickled black cherries.

2022 PATRIMONY Cabernet Sauvignon
One hundred percent Cabernet Sauvignon, thirty months in new French oak. Red currant, cherry preserve, tobacco leaf and star anise, with lavender and sagebrush behind them. The palate runs to blueberry, baking spice, smoked meat and salted dark chocolate. This is the wine the fourteen day dry aged filet and the kombu bordelaise were written for.

2021 PATRIMONY Caves des Lions
Sixty five percent Cabernet Sauvignon, thirty five percent Cabernet Franc. Plum, blackberry, licorice, cedarwood and wet stone resolving into chocolate, pomegranate, tobacco and graphite. Set against a chocolate crémeux and cassis confit, it reads less as a pairing than as a mirror.

The Details

Date
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Time
Reception at 6:00 PM. Dinner concludes at approximately 9:30 PM.

Location
Reception in The Sunset Lounge, dinner in The Aqua Dining Room

Price
$325 per person, exclusive of tax and gratuity

Seating
Twenty guests.

Attire
Dress for the occasion.

Dietary Restrictions
We will do our best to accommodate dietary restrictions with advance notice. Accommodation cannot be guaranteed.

Questions
penthouse@thehuntleyhotel.com

Wines are subject to change based on availability from the estate. Prepayment and cancellation terms are shown at booking. Guests must be 21 or older to be served wine pairings.