PM Modi’s State Dinner: Meet Raj Patel, owner of PATEL’s red wine that will be served at White House

  • As per winery's website, the wine is a fine blend of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon and retails for $75 a bottle.

Saurav Mukherjee
Updated22 Jun 2023, 07:56 PM IST
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A White House State Dinner invitation and a bottle of red wine.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a US visit, will be at the White House on 22 June for State Dinner where Chef Nina Curtis has been asked by US First Lady Jill Biden to work with the White House staff to create a stunning vegetarian menu.

According to the details, the menu includes lemon-dill yogurt sauce, crisped millet cakes, summer squashes, marinated millet and grilled corn kernel salad, compressed watermelon, tangy avocado sauce, stuffed portobello mushrooms, creamy saffron-infused risotto, rose and cardamom-infused strawberry shortcake, reported Business Today.

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Apart from the millet-based menu, Stone Tower Chardonnay 'Kristi' 2021, Patel Red Blend 2019, and Domaine Carneros Brut Rose will be served to the guests.

Aside from the veg menu, PATEL Red Blend 2019 is gaining some attention. Owned by Raj Patel, who arrived in the US from Gujarat in the 1970s, PATEL Red Blend 2019 is from a Napa Valley winery.

As per the winery's website, the wine is a fine blend of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon and retails for $75 a bottle.

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Patel completed his studies in BioChem at UC Davis and then took wine production after an internship at Robert Mondavi Winery.

In the 2000s, he took up wine manufacturing and released PATEL Wines' 100 cases of a 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon. When Robert Parker of The Wine Advocate reviewed the wine, it scored 95 and The Wine Advocate scored the subsequent vintages at 94 or above.

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After years of cultivating relationships with growers, Patel managed to add limited-production wines to the brand, including a Coombsville Cabernet Sauvignon, an Atlas Peak Malbec, and a Rutherford Sauvignon Blanc. His winery currently produces around 1,000 cases and sells out each year, added BT.

“The wine combines Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot into a seamless whole, still tightly wound in tannins and encased in refined oak," BT quoted US-based wine editor and enthusiast Virginie Boone as saying after he reviewed the wine produced by Patel.

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Modi's State Dinner:

"It is truly a pleasure to be able to work with the First Lady and help her to bring her culinary vision to life... we have curated a menu that really showcases the best in American cuisine and also then seasoned with Indian elements and flavors," California-based chef Nina Curtis was quoted by PTI as saying.

"We are also very excited that India is leading efforts to celebrate the International Year of the Millets. We have incorporated marinated millets into our menu and the Indian cuisine elements throughout the menu," the Nina chef said.

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Here's the menu:

1) First Course

2) Marinated Millet and Grilled Corn Kernel Salad

3) Compressed Watermelon

4) Tangy Avocado Sauce

5) Main Course

6) Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

7) Creamy Saffron-Infused Risotto

8) Upon Request

9) Sumac-Roasted Sea Bass

10) Lemon Dill Yogurt Sauce

11) Crisped Millet Cakes

12) Summer Squashes

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Guests' performances:

Grammy Award Winner Joshua Bell and Penn Masala, a South Asian acapella group from the University of Pennsylvania, will perform at The State Dinner. 'The President's Own United States Marine Band Chamber Orchestra will also be performing.

With agency inputs.

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