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Month: August 2017

  • Tulip Tree Trillium – Inspiration from Across the Sea

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    For us, this is the best French inspired cheese this side of the Atlantic. Made by the Tulip Tree Creamery out of Indianapolis, this creamy, soft ripened cheese would turn even the biggest Francophile into a fan. The cheese, when ripe, is one of the creamiest made in the States. 

    Having only arrived on the scene a few years ago, in 2014, it rivals some of the better soft ripened cheese makers out there.

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  • The Olive Pit Asks: To Pit or Not to Pit…

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    That is the question! How does a delicious, whole, Kalamata sound? Now, we’re sure you’re thinking, “Of course the olive is whole! I don’t want it sliced…”  Well, a “whole” olive refers to an olive that still has the pit intact, versus having a pitted olive, which has the pit removed.  

    Whole olives or pitted olives is an age old question. Some things to consider when trying to decide between the two:

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  • The Cooking School – September and Beyond, Let’s Get Cooking!

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    It’s already time to think about summer winding down as the colorful and cool days of fall arrive.

    Dave Schmerr’s wine tastings had a breakout favorite with Wine and Small Bites. It was so well received that we now offer two different dates and two different menus for you to enjoy this fall. Our students raved about the delicious small bites of food with wines paired specifically to them. Look for these classes with The Tasting Room logo.

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  • Discoveries at the Jungle Beverage Month: Sangria Senorial from Mexico and Fruits of the Nile Gourmet Nectars from Egypt

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    ​The world of beverages is certainly an interesting one. We, as humans, need to drink every day to survive. Of course water is always the best choice, but as long as history goes back there have been millions of ways people have been making their drinking a little more fun. From purification, to pasteurisation, juicing, infusing, carbonating, fermenting, distilling, mixing, and more, we have made a plethora of beverages that you probably wouldn’t have enough time in your life to even scratch the surface trying. Read article

  • Whimsically Indulging In That Ol’ Box-O-Chocolates Paradigm

    • Posted: 8/6/2017
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    ​The circle that is this quirky business turns in the most bizarre of fashions.  I am constantly reminded of just how small this circle is each and every day of the week.  It is a business that teaches you, if nothing else, when change comes, meet it with dignity, and when standing on the other side of that bridge, leave the gascan and lighter safely tucked away.

    Thus the circle closed when an old friend,

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  • The Wine Cellar Soliloquies, Part One

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    Ok, confession time.  Every so often, when meeting with sales reps, and tasting wines from wherever-in-the-world, my mind drifts a little.  Daydream multitasking, I guess that’d be what you’d call it (or momentary internalized enhancements).  I’m not ignoring the person presenting by any means.  I hear them.  I am listening, processing, ingesting.  But their voices become a kind-of Morgan Freeman-like narration on some magical journey a la Beatles’ Yellow Submarine.  There’s the narrator –

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  • (Drinking) Under The Tuscan Sun

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    Sometimes, tasting wine can be a platform for intrigue, noir and dark romanticism.  The immersiveness of the wines themselves can lend themselves to adventures in the mind only fueled by the next sip of wine.

    Our All-star rep Kerri dropped in on us a while back, and tasted us through the Tuscan wines of Castello dei Trebbio and Cascadei.  These terrific reds come to us through the Cline Family,

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  • Discoveries at the Jungle Beverage Month: Antarctica Guarana Soda from Brazil and Niasca Limonata Sparkling Lemon Beverage from Italy

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    The world of beverages is certainly an interesting one. We, as humans, need to drink every day to survive. Of course water is always the best choice, but as long as history goes back there have been millions of ways people have been making their drinking a little more fun. From purification, to pasteurisation, juicing, infusing, carbonating, fermenting, distilling, mixing, and more, we have made a plethora of beverages that you probably wouldn’t have enough time in your life to even scratch the surface trying. Read article

  • My Ever Growing Besotted Family Of Nerds

    • Posted: 8/5/2017
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    I’ve been in this business a long time.  Not as long as some, longer than others.  It is not a complaint, just a statement of fact.  I love this business.  I get to talk about one of my most favorite things to people who actually WANT to talk to me about these things.  You don’t always get to say that about your job so I feel pretty fortunate in that regard.  The customers and sales reps that make up much of my existence, Read article

  • Discoveries at the Jungle Beverage Month: Solo Orange Soda from Norway and Bundaberg Ginger Beer from Australia

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    The world of beverages is certainly an interesting one. We, as humans, need to drink every day to survive. Of course water is always the best choice, but as long as history goes back there have been millions of ways people have been making their drinking a little more fun. From purification, to pasteurisation, juicing, infusing, carbonating, fermenting, distilling, mixing, and more, we have made a plethora of beverages that you probably wouldn’t have enough time in your life to even scratch the surface trying. Read article
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