Jen and I recently took advantage of her club membership at DeLille Cellars to partake in a wine tasting on the beautiful club-only third floor patio, on a beautiful sunny morning. (Yes, we ate big breakfasts and then began our wine drinking day at 11 am! Up with the birds, practically). After our tasting flight (which included Doyenne, ...

Recently I was bored and thought it would be fun to head into the backyard and play around with adding glittery edible “Prism Powder” sparkles to a glass of Rose wine from Woodinville. Check out how sparkly my wine turned out! Want to purchase Prism Powders? Here’s what they look like. (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are ...

  This past weekend, I ran around Artisan Hill here in Woodinville, stopping by many of the wineries and tasting rooms to say hello to my wine industry friends, shop for wine, and check out a newly opened tasting room. Everywhere I went, people complimented me on my wine-themed face mask. So many people wanted to know where I got ...

I have been craving Roussanne and Marsanne and trying to learn more about this varietal lately. The weather is perfect for sitting outside so I gathered a few bottles from Woodinville wineries and invited two friends over to enjoy the lineup with me on the backyard patio. Since we have been mostly cooped up in sweatpants for the past several ...

Carrie and I recently visited the newly opened Damsel Cellars tasting room and LOVED it! The new space is located right next to the old tasting room in Woodinville’s Artisan Hill District. It’s fabulous. We were thrilled to have a sneak peek of the Damsel tasting room and to chat with Owner/Winemaker Mari Womack.  She was a video pro when ...

Looking to drink some wine in Woodinville on the Fourth of July? It falls on a Saturday this year! Check out some of your wine drinking options. Don’t see your favorite winery on this list? Go check out their Facebook page and Instagram to see if they are open. Note that under Phase 2, our local wineries might require reservations, ...

  Here in Woodinville, it’s been rainy for a week, despite it being supposedly Summer.. It’s July! I’m lighting a fire in the fireplace, pouring some wine from a local winery, and getting out puzzles to while away the evening. (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and ...

We love Rosé.. and we love sparkling wine.. so you can imagine how much joy it brings us when we’re shopping for wine in Woodinville tasting rooms and come across Sparkling Rosé! Washington State produces quite a few interesting sparkling wines, and we love that some winemakers have the guts to make Sparkling Rosé as well! I was gifted this ...

I’m so excited to finally get my hands on a copy of the new Washington Wine + Food cookbook! It’s a beautifully photographed collection of recipes from Seattle chefs and restaurants paired with Washington wines from Woodinville, Walla Walla, Lake Chelan, and other wine regions in our state. Take a look at my cookbook lookthrough to see if some of ...

We were so thrilled to hear the latest news from JM Cellars that they are opening back up for wine tastings at their Woodinville and Maltby locations! The Maltby tasting room reopened under Snohomish County’s Phase 1.5 guidelines on June 13th. This weekend, June 20th and 21st, JM’s Woodinville tasting room will open. You can read more on Safe Start ...