Cold CellarFIRST COURSE · 01
Smoked Wild Salmon
- WINE
- Blanc de Blancs Champagne, zero dosage
- Chalk and bruised apple cut the alder smoke; the low dosage keeps the fish clean.
- HERBS
- Dill crowns · Chervil · Chive blossom
- SPICES
- Cracked white pepper · Juniper · Lemon zest
- AT THE TABLE
- Cold, on rye toast with cultured butter and a spoon of crème fraîche.
THE RECIPE — DRY CURE, THEN COLD SMOKE
36 hours cure · 11 hours smoke · Made in small released batches
- 01Sides are buried in coarse sea salt, raw sugar, crushed juniper and lemon zest for thirty-six hours.
- 02Rinsed, then air-dried overnight until a pellicle forms and the surface turns matte.
- 03Cold-smoked at 24°C over alder for eleven hours, rotated on the hour.
- 04Rested four days before slicing so the smoke settles into the fat.
Room temperature, sliced on the bias, with rye and cultured butter.
WHAT GOES IN: Wild-caught salmon · Coarse Atlantic sea salt · Unrefined raw cane sugar · Crushed juniper berries · Lemon zest · Alder smoke








