Annual Release Party Chelanigans
Our annual wine release party is Saturday August 6th here at the winery in Manson, WA. We’ll have all our new wines available for tasting by the flight, glass and bottle including the 2009 Kamari Black Label Reserve Red Wine Blend. There’ll be live music on the wine deck all evening with Velvet Elvis, from Wenatchee, and The Mess, from Olympia. After dark, we’ll be showing various 16mm films to accompany the tunes. We’ve arranged to get a member of The Swinery, a West Seattle butcher, over from the westside to help us roast a pig for this event. We’ll be...
Read MoreRelease Party Summer 2010
This year’s wine release party was a grand success. It was WineGirl Wines‘ first party in our new location on Lake Chelan, so the celebration was a belated grand opening party too. We had a great turn out from old and new wino friends. We premiered five newly bottled wines and each was paired with a cheese provided by our neighbor, Lake Chelan Cheese. There was food, music, and lots of good conversation. Later in the night, we projected black and white 16mm films on our newly unveiled covered deck. The weather was fine and it was a lovely evening for sitting outside and...
Read MoreWgotW – Special for August
When it comes to friends, WineGirl is luckier than all this week. Our special featured WineGirl of the Week is a selfless, long-time friend of Jonathan and Angela, who came to help get the decor in top shape for our most recent Grand Opening and Release Party! Brittany is by far one of the most genuine people I know working into the whee hours stuffing wine bottles with little lights for our new over-the-bar track lighting. Thanks Brit the finished project is amazing and we couldn’t do it without your...
Read More’07 Kamari Malbec release
New: Check out party video linked here! ‘Movies and Malbec’ was a success. It was a glorious evening of fine wine and flickering films. WineGirl Wines unleashed the 2007 Kamari Black Label Malbec upon the world and set the mood with 16mm moving pictures. We saw Charlie Chaplin’s “The Rink”, the animated ‘Naughty Nellie’ with the songs of Clinic, ‘Hannah and the Dog Ghost’, and Hans’ Richter’s ‘Ghosts Before Breakfast’. Ian Wood’s ‘Tsunami Escape’ with The Velvet Underground as background sound was well...
Read MorePreparing for the Malbec release
It’s big work to prepare for even a small wine release event. This most recent event was to be for our 2007 Kamari Malbec. The preparations for ‘Movies and Malbec’ were to be minimal. We planned for a relaxed night of films projected large outdoors with good friends, the perfect setting to unveil a lovely new wine. The weather, however, looked uncooperative. Two days before the event, the future seemed wet and windy. As we have done for the two years past, this meant erecting a tent roof over the entire back yard. Our release parties of previous years were late in the...
Read More2009 Build a Treehouse Wine Party
Well, it was a smashing success. Not as smashing as last year (we started the night with 60 wine glasses and woke up with only 24), but smashing none the less. The press artist Amy Redmond was there with her block press art a splendor! It was such a gorgeous treat to see her art and I even purchased a piece. Then local artist Katie McMullin was there, too. She too had amazing collage and paintings on display. She has amazingly vivid pieces and I hope to work with her on a new Firá label in the likes of a beautiful bird like this: We even had some of Javier’s family from the East coast...
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