Wines of Portugal and Food Pairing
In this class, master sommelier, Eugenio Jardim, will team with Chef David. Eugenio's wines from Portugal will be paired with small bites from Chef David. You will learn some of the classic food and wine pairings as well as some tragic mistakes to be easily avoided.
Eugenio will teach you how to avoid making pairing mistakes that can ruin a night out, or your dinner party. Eugenio will provide wine notes and Chef David will include recipes.
(PLEASE LEAVE YOUR FURRY FRIENDS AT HOME, THANK YOU!)
In 1988, Eugenio moved to San Francisco from Brazil, and while working as an Assistant Wine Buyer at a local wine shop, he successfully completed the Foundation and Advanced Courses at Sterling’s School of Service and Hospitality in Napa Valley, led by Master Sommelier Evan Goldstein.
He opened Eos Restaurant and Wine Bar in San Francisco in 1995- one of the most famous cutting edge wine programs in the country. Jardim became Wine Director at Eos Restaurant in 1999, propelling his career in the wine business to new heights.
In 2001 he took over as Wine Director at Jardinière, one of San Francisco’s top restaurants, where he and his team earned the highest four-star rating from the San Francisco Chronicle Food and Wine Editor Michael Bauer and Eugenio was named the 2010 Sunset Magazine’s Sommelier of the Year.
In addition, Eugenio has established critically acclaimed Wine Programs for Chef Traci Des Jardins’s Acme Chophouse, Chef Loretta Keller’s Coco 500, Chef Elizabeth Faulkner’s Citizen Cake and Orson, Manzanita at the Ritz-Carlton Highlands Resort in Tahoe, and for SF Magazine’s Rising Star Chef Jessica Boncutter’s Bar Jules. Eugenio is currently the U.S. ambassador of wines of Portugal.