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Wine Festival vintner dinner at the Evanstad home

Gabriel Rucker, executive chef of Le Pigeon in Portland, gives instructions to the wait staff while preparing for the Perfectly Paired vintner dinner in the Port Royal home of Ken and Grace Evenstad on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. David Albers/Staff

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Gabriel Rucker, executive chef of Le Pigeon in Portland, gives instructions to the wait staff while preparing for the Perfectly Paired vintner dinner in the Port Royal home of Ken and Grace Evenstad on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. David Albers/Staff

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  • The new rose wine from Grace and Ken Evenstad's Domaine Serene winery is poured as an aperitif for guests during a Naples Winter Wine Festival vintner dinner in the couple's Port Royal home on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. David Albers/Staff
  • A decorative pear adorns the place setting of the guests of the Perfectly Paired vintner dinner in the Port Royal home of Ken and Grace Evenstad on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. David Albers/Staff
  • Gabriel Rucker, executive chef of Le Pigeon in Portland, and his business partner, Andy Fortgang, at right, plate their first course of North African prawns, seafood sausage with cabbage and cod cheeks at the Naples Winter Wine Festival vintner dinner of Grace and Ken Evenstad in the couple's Port Royal home on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. David Albers/Staff
  • A fois gras torchon with 7-Up compressed apples and lemon-lime sea salt is prepared for guests of the Perfectly Paired vintner dinner in the Port Royal home of Ken and Grace Evenstad on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. David Albers/Staff
  • Gabriel Rucker, executive chef of Le Pigeon in Portland, revels in his precise planning for a cabbage and celery root slaw for his first course of seafood sausage with cabbage and cod cheeks at the Naples Winter Wine Festival vintner dinner of Grace and Ken Evenstad in the couple's Port Royal home on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. David Albers/Staff
  • A cardboard cutout of honored vintners Grace and Ken Evenstad oversees the kitchen where Gabriel Rucker, executive chef of Le Pigeon in Portland, right, prepares their dinner in the couple's Port Royal home on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. David Albers/Staff
  • Gabriel Rucker, executive chef of Le Pigeon in Portland, gives instructions to the wait staff while preparing for the Perfectly Paired vintner dinner in the Port Royal home of Ken and Grace Evenstad on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. David Albers/Staff
  • Naples Winter Wine Festival trustees and honored vintners Grace and Ken Evenstad entertain guests of their vintner dinner in the couple's Port Royal home on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. David Albers/Staff
  • Shannon Evenstad, daughter-in-law of Naples Winter Wine Festival trustees and honored vintners Ken and Grace Evenstad, works as a prep chef for Gabriel Rucker in the Evenstad's Port Royal home on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Rucker, the executive chef of Le Pigeon in Portland, received help from the daughters of the vintner party hosts after his assistant chef became stranded in New York because of a winter storm. David Albers/Staff
  • Smoked salmon cream puffs with caviar are prepared as appetizers for guests of the Perfectly Paired vintner dinner in the Port Royal home of Ken and Grace Evenstad on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. David Albers/Staff

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