This weekend I made my rounds visiting the Warehouse District, exploring wineries and saying hi to wine industry friends. While I was in Kerloo Cellars, tasting Sauvignon Blanc and buying wine, I met Ron and Dalina from Off the Record. They were really sweet, and quite patient with the darling English bulldog puppy (“Tugboat”) who was climbing all over Dalina’s ...
Wine walks are back, and I’m looking forward to the Edmonds Summer Wine Walk on Saturday, August 7! The wine walk is a fundraiser for Art Walk Edmonds, and takes place between 5 pm and 7 pm. You’ll stroll around downtown Edmonds, exploring its cute shops, cafes and restaurants. Taste wine from 22 different wineries, including several from Woodinville: Dahlman ...
Sipfest Snoqualmie returns! We’re so excited to attend this local wine tasting event! It seems like forever since we were able to go to wine walks. Sipfest Snoqualmie takes place Saturday, July 10. The event runs from 6 pm to 9 pm. If you don’t live close to Woodinville, here’s a great chance for you to taste wines from three ...
It was such a pleasure to sit down with owner/winemaker Lisa Warr-King Packer of Warr-King Wines. She spent time out of her busy Saturday (a new-release Saturday, mind you!) to chat with me about all things Woodinville wine, and a few other fun adult conversation tidbits too! As we chatted and I enjoyed her incredible wines, we reflected on the ...
Tomorrow (Saturday, February 27) is Open That Bottle Night. It’s a celebratory night held at the end of winter, while we eagerly anticipate Spring. It’s meant to encourage us to treat ourselves to opening a VERY special bottle of wine we’ve been saving in our home wine cellars, wine cabinets and wine stashes. With all we’ve been going through in ...
This spring, Chef Anne Marie and ten local Woodinville wineries have teamed up to create fun, delicious take-home Mystery Dinner events from March to June. $10 from each Mystery Dinner will go directly to the Woodinville Storehouse Food Bank. Every Mystery Dinner Experience includes a unique wine experience created by a featured Woodinville winery and a matching 4-course meal you can ...
If you’d like, you can join us on #WineWednesday for our Wine Chat and Christmas Trivia event. The event is on Wednesday, December 16 and starts after dinner, at 7:30 pm PST. We’ll all pour something nice to sip, chat about Washington wines (especially wines you can get in Woodinville), and play a game of friendly non-competitive, non-religious Christmas Trivia. ...
The Woodinville Arts Alliance is hosting a Winter Virtual Art Walk through March 2021. They’ve teamed up with several local winery tasting rooms to showcase and promote local artists. You can read more about it at the Woodinville Weekly here. While we can’t sit indoors wineries tasting wine right now, we can peek at the hosted art pieces when stopping ...
We are beyond excited about Chateau Ste. Michelle’s new private winery experience offerings here in Woodinville wine country! On Sunday, we’re renting a luxury cabana for a four-hour wine tasting experience for us and just three of our other friends. It’s a splurge, but we’re worth it! (Chateau Ste. Michelle did not comp us for the cabana, we paid with ...
National Rosé Day is celebrated the second Saturday of each June. This year it falls on Saturday, June 13. We normally throw a big local wine industry party on this day, opening up nearly 100 bottles of Rosé to sample with our friends. However, this year gatherings in my backyard are limited to under 6 people for everyone’s safety. Instead, ...