Jen and I buy a LOT of wine, and we have been looking for fashionable ways to tote it around between tasting rooms and in our cars. These Scout Pleasure Chests are insulated coolers, but don’t come with a wine divider inside. That means your bottles can clink around and into each other! We think these bags are just adorable, ...
We’re invited to lots of holiday parties lately, whether they’re autumn celebrations, Halloween cocktail parties, dinner parties and festive gatherings. Since we run a wine blog, we usually bring a bottle of wine as a hostess gift. To raise our gift to another level, we’ve been including seasonal themed bottle stoppers with our gifts too. We’ve chosen some of our ...
I recently saw a magazine ad for Riedel’s Venetian inspired varietal-specific “Fatto a Mano” wine glasses and was instantly captivated by the gorgeous colorful stems. wine Besides looking pretty on my dinner party tables, they’d make it easier for party guests to remember which glass is theirs if they happened to set it down. (Disclosure: Some of the links in ...
One thing I love about having a social circle with entrepreneur friends, teacher friends and retired friends is that you can invite a couple ladies over for a spontaneous afternoon tea party (or in my case, wine party) on the spur of the moment. Sure, not everybody can accept the invitation on short notice, but sometimes they can. Here’s a ...
What do you do after Thanksgiving is over and you’ve napped, griped about how full you are, slowly and reluctantly cleaned up some dishes, watched “Home Alone” and “Trains Planes and Automobiles” already, and snacked a bit? We’re thinking it would be quite fun to play a silly round or two of “Prosecco Pong,” courtesy of the whimsical Talking Tables ...
Sometimes when I’m befuddled for a present idea for a friend or acquaintance I don’t know very well, I turn to an attractive calendar as a solution. They’re useful and beautiful (William Morris would approve!) Our curated selection of 2018 calendars includes a couple humorous ones, such as the “Uncorked” calendar; a lovely vintage posters calendar, “Salut!” and others depicting ...
Imagine the beautiful spread of cheese, meats and grapes you could serve on this oval platter! The Gilded Wine Dinnerware Set includes 4 dinner plates, 4 salad/dessert plates, 4 mugs, and 4 soup/pasta bowls. This wine cooler is part of their Vino Blanco line. It stands just seven inches tall. For workdays, when we must sadly put down the wine ...
Carrie, entering Alexandria Nicole’s Woodinville tasting room on what was one of the last hot days of summer recently here in the Pacific Northwest. This is one of three tasting rooms that ANC has to offer guests. It is located on the ground floor of the Hollywood Schoolhouse Building in the historic district. They also have tasting rooms in Prosser, ...
We throw a lot of parties in the summer and fall here in Woodinville, and are excited to incorporate these wine-themed candles into our home decor this autumn. They’re made from recycled wine bottles – how perfect! If you’re a wine fanatic like us, you might like to check these out too. The Pinot Noir features notes of cherry and ...