She asked us to spoon over each of the oysters a warm lemon-chive beurre blanc from a ceramic crock, a sauce she had prepared that morning by whisking butter, pat by pat, into a tablespoon of a syrupy reduction of white wine, red-wine vinegar and chopped shallots.
Part of the secret is the slow reduction of Valpolicella wine with sugar which creates a deep, rich sauce for the fruit.
Filet mignon was served with morels, a reduction of red wine and bearnaise, making me think Mr. Citrin needs to be told when to stop.
Plum butter was another comforting sauce: a reduction of plum wine and mirepoix (onions, carrots and celery) paired well with pine nuts.
Their texture — halfway between osso buco and jello — might put off some diners, but the persuasive preparation, a rich reduction of red wine and cepas (Spanish porcini), transcends mere novelty.
Other entrees also sparkled: lamb fricassee with thyme jus; free range veal with blood oranges and a lovely reduction of marsala wine and blood orange, served with a generous side bowl of soft polenta; and well-browned crispy sweetbreads, whose plate companions were a super-smooth yam purée and sweet-sour glazed cippolini (small onions).
From faux ravioli stuffed with oxtail, essentially a sandwich of crisp-fried bread, the whole dish bathed in a sticky reduction of red wine, to a bowl of piquillo peppers baked slowly into sweetness and mellow heat, there is much to enjoy about eating this restaurant's food.
Intriguingly, following the reduction (and elimination) of wine and beer duties, alcohol consumption per capita in Hong Kong has slightly increased from 2.54 litres in 2006 to 2.64 litres in 2010 [ 14].
Basically, the production of wine involves wine yeast, especially Saccharomyces cerevisiae var.
The tilefish on another evening had the same marvelous crunchy andouille crust, and came with a cleverly tweaked reduction of shallots, white wine and hot-sauce beurre blanc.
