Drink It In

Council Oak Wine Dinner
Jan. 28, 7 p.m.
Cost $225 per person.
Reservations are required for the wine dinner – visit the Council Oak page at hardrockcincinnati.com and select Jan. 28.

Could your Tuesday use a little more fun? Just add wine!

Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati’s Council Oak Steak & Seafood restaurant holds its first of four special wine-pairing dinners for 2025 this Tuesday, hosted by Keegan Corcoran of Ignition Wines.

The dinner features four courses, along with a reception course and dessert, with wine pairings for each course.

Corcoran, founder of Ignition Wines, is one of only 600 in the world to hold the title of Advanced Sommelier within the Court of Master Sommeliers.

Based in Cincinnati, Ignition distributes fine wine to restaurants, bars, and bottle shops in Ohio and Kentucky. They also offer complimentary consultation and staff education, conducted by Corcoran.

The reception course for the first of the series wine dinner features a JB Neufeld-Pet Nat Sparkling Sauvignon Blanc paired with scallop ceviche with avocado and artichoke fritters with lemon basil aioli. The first course is cauliflower and sunchoke soup with burgundy truffles, paired with a Withers Peters Vineyard Chardonnay, and the second course includes shellfish shepherd’s pie with uni mashed potatoes and an Audeant Seven Springs Vineyard Chardonnay.

The third course is pheasant Wellington, sweet potato Dauphinoise with beurre rouge sauce, paired with an Audeant Pinot Noir, and the fourth course includes a coffee rubbed chateaubriand, celeriac puree, fricassee of wild mushrooms and dried cherry demi, paired with JB Neufeld The Old Goat Cabernet Sauvignon. A dessert of wine washed apple tarte tatin with apple brandy crème Anglaise paired with Dolce by Far Niente Late Harvest Semillion wraps up the dinner.

Council Oak is open for dinner Wednesday through Sunday inside Hard Rock Casino, 1000 Broadway.