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Category: Wine

  • What’s Cooking (for the lonely) – Grilled cod on sauteed potatoes with paprika and green olives

    Gorgeous recipe from Borough wines! Perfect for Saturday night IN! Love Kristen

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  • Love: Wining and Dining in Fontainebleau…

    I have been meaning to post this for a while now and am only now getting around to it. I need to share the names of two wines I had while in Fontainebleau for an INSEAD marketing course in January. I picked them at random for our 8 person dinner on a Monday night and

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  • Love: Wines for Valentines day…

    Ahhh the day of love…or just another day to try an extra special wine??  Whatever it means to you, have a look at some ideas to mark the occasion with someone special (i.e. yourself!). Here are some ideas to spark the LOVE…. A Valentines day MUST – BUBBLES!! Grab a bottle of Prosecco. Honestly –

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  • LOVE: Scott Paul, Audrey 2005 Pinot Noir

    I love Oregon wines…and Oregon in general actually. Beautiful, green and lots of open spaces. Plus they make a KILLER pinot noir. Its been a few years since I’ve been back there but given my most recent experience with their produce, I desperately need to make it back. I went to visit Scott Paul’s tasting

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  • My father turned 70…and I put on a wine tasting!

    My dad turned 70 this year. He’s still incredible – lots of energy, if only a bit slower moving. As I live in London and my parents are in my hometown of Seattle, I wasn’t able to do anything for his birthday (other than send him a lame card…which even still I never ended up

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  • And here’s to another year on planet earth…

    Jetlag is a bitch. I got just under 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night…I have no children and my apartment is quiet at night (though quite drafty but that is beside the point). After waking up every 30 minutes or so after 2AM I finally called it quits at 5AM. I made a pot

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  • Off to Leavenworth, WA we go…

    Today our little party train jet off to Leavenworth, WA for a few days of respite…and wine tasting!!! Leavenworth has an incredible little strip of kitschy shops and restaurants (following the Bavarian theme that the town is famous for) as well as some great local wineries – all neatly stacked together on the 1/2 mile

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  • Work Christmas party fail…to drink or not to drink?

    Ahh the infamous work Christmas party… Always brings about a bit of dread. Should I or should I not have a drink. Well…come on – you are out with your workmates on a weekday with free booze. What else are you going to do but have a few bevvies? It would be rude not to.

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  • Interesting idea – Have your customers make their own wine

    Just discovered an interesting approach to the wine business – set up a facility in the middle of a city full of wealthy entrepreneurs, silicon valley-esque millionaires where the more eccentric of the lot can make their own wine. Dogpatch WineWorks (http://www.dpwineworks.com) is doing just that. They leave their model open to some interpretation however

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  • Checking back in…

    Its been forever since I wrote…and I am trying to make a pre-new year, new year resolution to start writing again. I seem to always be “trying to get started again”.  Wish me luck!

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