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Mesclun Salad with roasted pears, walnuts, pomegranate seeds, gorgonzola cheese & balsamic dressing Roast Asparagus with a lemon vinaigrette 46 BEDFORD & NEW CANAAN Poached Side of Salmon with a dill sauce

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RECIPES

Poached Salmon Recipe:

1 teaspoon olive oil Four 4- to 6-ounce fillets salmon Sea salt and white pepper 2 lemons, 1 halved and 1 cut into wedges 1 bottle dry white wine, such as pinot grigio Fresh parsley, for garnish

Drizzle the olive oil over the salmon fillets and season with some sea salt and white pepper. Set aside. Fill a high-sided large skillet one-third of the way up with water. Add the wine and lemon halves. Bring to a low simmer, add the salmon and let cook until firm to the touch, 5 to 7 minutes for medium. For well-done salmon, cook for 10 minutes. Serve garnished with the lemon wedges and parsley

ANCONA’S WINE PAIRINGS:

2020 Liquid Farm Chardonnay Ancona’s Cuvée VI $44.99

Ancona’s Cuvée #6 if for the White Burgundy Lovers! When I taste a wine like this, I can’t help but smile. This is archetype Liquid Farm: concentrated, detailed, and layered--offering the perfect balance of minerality and well-portioned, balanced fruit. On the nose: crunchy yellow apples, Asian pear, fresh cream, sea salt, hazelnut and linen are punctuated by fine lines of crushed, mineral limestone. On the palate--this wine pillowy and full while remaining very fresh and light on its feet: lemon oil, fresh cotton, the essence of crushed seashells cling to the palate--lively and fresh. Any trace of oak barrel is barely detectable, a whisper in the distance. Practicing Organic. Pretty much my ideal white for the season.

2019 Pascal Janvier Pineau d’Aunis $24.99

Referred to affectionately among the team as ‘PJ Rouge’--the grape is Pineau d’Aunis, a pale, peppery red grape that produces red wines that are delicately tannic while saying light on their feet. This bottling is feather light, but packed with flavor: cranberries, peppercorn, petrichor (think about the aroma of fresh rain on hot pavement). It’s the perfect accompaniment for salmon— particularly with a light chill, say 40 minutes in the fridge.

Domaine Saint Cyr Rose Pet Nat $25.99

Under the holiday meal, a simple but dazzling cerulean blue linen tablecloth with white decorative trim. For accent on the table, Léron a finely embroidered, simple but elegant, white placemat. Ancona’s new favorite Pet Nat--this Gamay Pet Nat is masterminded Raph at Domaine Saint Cyr. This is high-toned, mineral, and crushable to the core. A stunning balance of savory and thirst quenching. Green apples, raspberry, salinity, and cotton candy. The only problem, perhaps, is that the bottle empties a little too too quickly.

The couple held off on wedding planning to enjoy engagement bliss and to see what happened with pandemic restrictions… but by March of this year, they started looking at venues. Jamie is 34 and Brian is 49, so they wanted something sophisticated and mature, and smaller and more intimate. They picked a beautiful nearby space that was perfect for what they wanted.

“We planned an entire wedding in two months! When I say small, we kept it really small. There were fifty people - and it was actually just family. We’re each one of six children, and a lot of our siblings are married and have kids, so our immediate families are big! Everyone had such a rough year being isolated and alone, we really just wanted everyone to be together, and have our families get to know each other and enjoy each other’s company,” Brian said.

Prior to the wedding, the couple had ‘first-look’ photos done where Jamie spent the night before the wedding with her sister, Jaclyn, who brought in a vintage Rolls Royce to drive the couple over to the wedding venue.

Jamie and Brian each had one of their brothers and sisters as their best man and maid of honor, and their nieces were flower girls. Brian’s mother passed away five years ago, and her favorite flowers were purple orchids, so we had them at the ceremony to honor her.

Jamie’s father was unfortunately too ill to attend the wedding, so instead of a traditional father-daughter dance, Jamie danced with Brian’s dad, and Brian danced with Jamie’s mom, and Jamie had a separate sisters dance with her three sisters. Jamie’s mother walked her down the aisle.

“There was lots of dancing, and probably way too many speeches. Everyone was so funny. My sister had us cracking up and Brian’s dad had us all in tears,” Jamie said. Brian interjected, “We didn’t follow any traditional playbook, which is funny, because we’re actually both fairly traditional people… but it was the best night.” Rain was in the forecast, but it held off until right after the newlyweds walked down the aisle and, as Jamie recalls, “Then it absolutely poured during the reception - which made it even more romantic, since we were inside with massive gorgeous French doors leading to a covered patio. Besides, they say it’s good luck to have rain on your wedding day!” The couple danced their first dance to ‘their song’, Tennessee Whiskey.

&LEVY PFLUMM WEDDING

09.04.21

PHOTOGRAPHY: SARMA & CO. PHOTOGRAPHY

Claire Levy grew up in Waccabuc, attended John Jay High School and then Wesleyan University, and at 28, moved across the country to pursue her MBA at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley… where she met...Sebastian Pflumm, who grew up in Germany, went to school and worked in Switzerland, and had planned to move back to Europe after his Haas MBA.

“We met during orientation week, the first week of business school. We were best friends right away, but even after things turned romantic we waited to get engaged until we graduated as a way of making sure we could live and work together in the real world and not just in the fantasy land of graduate school,” Claire explains. “Then, after three and a half years of sharing projects, classes, trips, and an apartment, Sebastian proposed to me on a trip to Sonoma.”

Sebastian had originally planned on proposing on the first night of the Spring 2019 weekend in Sonoma, but a snafu at the jewelry store meant the ring didn’t come in time. “We still had an amazing weekend and I used a necklace I had gotten as a placeholder until the ring arrived to propose to Claire over a romantic dinner in our cabin, with flowers, candles, and some good champagne. It all worked out - she said ‘yes’!”

The couple live in San Francisco, where Claire is a product marketing manager at YouTube, and Sebastian works for McKinsey as a management consultant. Claire and Sebastian were married at Caramoor on September 4, 2021. Claire had always dreamt of getting married in her hometown, and felt like New York was a really good mid-point between their California b-school guests and Sebastian’s family in Germany. “Of all the places we visited, we decided that Caramoor was absolutely perfect. I even had my high school graduation at Caramoor and it’s just such a special and beautiful place. They just completed some spectacular renovations and the sunken garden was lush and grown and stunning. It was also the perfect mix of outdoor and a sort of indoor tented space. It made me really proud to show off my hometown.”

“We basically had an entire wedding weekend because we had so many people coming from out of town,” Sebastian said. Friday night the couple hosted a rehearsal dinner on Lake Waccabuc at the Waccabuc Country Club with a cookout, picnic tables, a pontoon boat, swimming, s’mores, canoeing, and even a bit of a German theme with big pretzels, bratwurst, and plenty of beer.

The wedding day was filled with lots of white and green with pops of deep blues and purples. Continuing covid-related boarder restrictions meant that a lot of invited German guests couldn’t attend afterall, but Claire and Sebastian were grateful to get whoever they could back together again after everyone being separated for the pandemic for so long, and tied the knot with almost a hundred of their family and closest friends. “One of Sebastian’s three brothers wasn’t able to make it because of the two-week quarantine and a new baby, but our amazing wedding coordinator and DJ were able to incorporate him seamlessly into the ceremony with a meaningful recording.” Claire said, “and I’m half Jewish, so we were married under a chuppah, and we had a secular version of the seven blessings, where seven friends read about what they hope for us in our marriage and our future.”

After the couples first dance, Claire, who studied voice growing up, performed three songs to kick off the partying. And once the more formal wedding band wrapped up, a DJ who played German techno music helped the crowd dance the night away.

Although neither Claire nor Sebastian is vegetarian, they elected to serve only vegetarian food, explaining, “Your wedding is a time in your life where you have some real purchasing power. It’s a significant opportunity for impact. So we went with a more sustainable approach - that was completely delicious. We also focused our registry on a few of our favorite charities: the Rainforest Trust, African Wildlife Foundation, and Oceana.”

The wedding weekend was capped off with a brunch at the Levy’s pool in Waccabuc, complete with mimosas and breakfast burritos.

Following the nuptials, Claire and Sebastian honeymooned in Bora Bora and then Taha’a.

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