Bacchus hosts a wine dinner featuring Spain's acclaimed Numanthia winery this week. (PHOTO: Bartolotta Restaurant Group)

Bacchus hosts Spanish wine dinner

Published Aug. 24, 2011 at 10:43 a.m.

Manuel Louzada, winemaker and director of Spain's Bodegas Numanthia (owned by Moet Hennessy), will be the guest of honor at a dinner featuring his wines at Bacchus, 925 E. Wells St., on Thursday, Aug. 25 at 6:30 p.m.

The dinner is $95 per person and includes pours of 2008 Termes (91 points Wine Spectator), 2007 Numanthia (94 points Robert Parker) and 2007 Termanthia (97+ points Robert Parker), which usually sells for more than $150 a bottle and is vinified from the fruit of vines that are more than a century old.

There will also be a Champagne and a dessert wine and Bartolotta's James Beard Award-winning Chef Adam Siegel is creating a five-course dinner to highlight these wines. Among the dishes: grilled calamari and grilled quail breast.

Call (414) 765-1166 for reservations.

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