Where’s Wino? Cicada Restaurant and Lounge.
There are now several great places to enjoy our wines in Olympia, Wash. The newest is Cicada Restaurant and Lounge on Fourth Avenue in downtown Oly. There you can discover some fine comfort food dining up front. Or you can make your way through the restaurant and have some sips in the lovely back lounge. Either way you will certainly find an inviting atmosphere to savor high quality food and drink. A scan of their menu shows many creative food combinations with local ingredients. One strong recommendation from a bonafide source is for the Painted Hills flat iron steak with grilled spinach...
Read MoreA Perfect Pairing
Each Friday from 4 – 6PM we’re getting together with the Lake Chelan Cheese for our Perfect Pairing Event. Last Friday September 4th, we put our Firá Gewurztraminer, My Derby Wife Merlot, and Kamari Black Label Reserve Malbec to the test. The kids from the Cheese Shop came back at us with stinky Gorgonzola Piccante, pressed Comté, and nutty Emmentaler. It was such fun to share with locals and tourists alike the bounty of two little, neighboring businesses on the North Shore of Lake Chelan in Manson. The fan fave was the Firá Gewurztraminer and Gorgonzola...
Read MoreWgotW – August 11th
I miss roller derby. I miss the creativity, the entrepreneurial, grassroots, DIY spirit. I miss the positive energy, the support, the exercise. I miss the girls, my best friends, my derby wives and team. And yes, I miss taking girls out. I miss that perfect hit that sends Valtron 3000 out of bounds. I miss everything… everything but the knee injuries. So, all I have now is My Derby Wife Merlot and the amazing wine guests who stroll in and recount their personal experiences with derby. This week, in walked a colleague of the best co-cappie I ever had Carmen Getsome. It was such a...
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