Raise your hand if you’re tired of cooking for yourself and your family at home! (Handraise!) Take a look at three options for treating yourself to a gourmet meal from Woodinville chefs this month. Order online, pick up the meal, take it home, re-heat using the chef-provided instructions, and enjoy with local Washington wine. This week through January 17, the ...
We’re taking a look back at this difficult, dark year, and trying to highlight some of the bright spots. Come along with us and let’s reminisce about fabulous Woodinville and Washington State wineries, tasting rooms, restaurants, wines and people! (Not necessarily in that order!) January 2020 – We started off the New Year optimistic, positive, and totally unaware of the ...
This winter has tossed a curve ball to our favorite Woodinville wineries, as they were once again closed for indoor tastings and dining. As the winery owners in this amazing community pivoted and found new ways to sell wine and serve customers, we saw amazing efforts to create safe patios spaces. We were thrilled to visit Chateau Lill and enjoy ...
Today Kaiti, the newest member of our wine blog team here at Woodinville Wine Blog, was reading about this year’s food trend where savory charcuterie chalets are replacing gingerbread houses. Charcuterie chalets are popping up all over social media! She was fascinated, and spent a bit of time exploring charcuterie chalets on YouTube. Kaiti thought it would be hilarious to ...
I happen to have a fairly ugly kitchen. My house near Woodinville was built in the mid 1980s; and the kitchen has been redone once but with boring and cheap faux oak brown cupboards. Yuck. Luckily, after two kitchen fires and a kitchen flood, I finally have an excuse to not only stop cooking and eat takeout from restaurants way ...
How is it possible that Christmas is only one week away? Have you planned you holiday menus and wine purchases yet? These 5 Seattle-area food and wine bloggers have some serious follow-worthy accounts that we know you will love as much as we do. We think you will find some great holiday planning tips from their feeds! so @PNW Wine ...
I was super excited to finally go meet Jason Long from Long Cellars, located in Woodinville’s Warehouse District. I knew I would enjoy myself when I read that this boutique winery focused on Bordeaux varietals from Red Mountain and Yakima Valley AVAs. This label is fun, isn’t it? That is exactly what you will get when you meet winemaker and ...
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 ...
Don’t want to cook for Christmas this year? Me neither! Let’s take a look at some of our Woodinville restaurant and catering take-home festive meal options. These local businesses need our support this year and we need their delicious cooking! Barking Frog at Woodinville’s nicest hotel, Willows Lodge, offers a Holiday Frog Box to-go. Choose between the Holiday Ham Frog ...