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Wine Tasting July 10 ’10

Last week, you will recall, I finally gave in to the idea that had been in my mind for years that we should pull out those old bottles of Longoria Blues Cuvee (2000!), and in celebration of the great enjoyment we have gotten from our series of their posters, to have an annual 4th of […]

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Reds, Whites, and Blues Cuvee: Wine Tasting July 3, ’10

About six months before we opened this place, in fall of 2004 (could it be that long?) we went to our first distributor tasting, a private one, actually, over in the industrial netherworld of West Seattle. We had NO idea what we were doing, and we didn’t know (this is where we Learned!) that when […]

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Wine Tasting June 26 ’10

Of course June 26 is engraved on my memory like a burn from a branding iron. That’s the date in 1963 when I, fresh from high school at the tender age of 17, was sworn in as a midshipman at the Naval Academy…i.e., “Resistance is futile; You Too Will Be Assimilated.” Eight years later, the […]

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Wine Tasting June 19 ’10

By any standard you would have to call last Saturday “Quiet.” MJ came by early to get ready (?!) for her drive to Woodinville to hear Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Chateau Ste. Michelle. While she was still there D & K came by, and pretty much we had a long, easy schmooze till sometime […]

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