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If you missed me this morning talking about us on the first annual DC Wine & Country Festival - check out the video now:
There are still tickets to be purchased - availability is limited, so get them while you can!
See you tonight or on the weekend
- Wilhelm
Hello Chocolate Lovers and Connoisseurs,
This weekend we will be visiting our friends at Chrysalis Vineyards for their annual Jazz Festival. We have been there the last two years and it has always been great fun. What can be better than good wine and chocolate?
We will have lots of tasting pieces and be sampling three different Chrysalis wines with three of our confections. Be there on Saturday & Sunday from 10AM to 6PM. Did I mention there will be live Jazz music as well? Here is all the info http://www.chrysaliswine.com/jazzfestival09.htm
We would like to invite you to a complimentary wine and chocolate tasting at Massimo’s Il Vino in Fairfax.
There is a lot going on this weekend, as Fairfax Corners is having their 2008 Block Party Event.
We will be holding the tasting from 2 - 5 PM ….. Come by and enjoy some good wine and even better chocolate 
We hope y’all had a very nice Easter weekend. Melanie and I actually worked on Sunday, but only until 5pm. We then went to take a walk in the park and enjoyed the chilly, but nice and fresh air and the blue sky. Afterwards we had ‘Boeuf Stroganoff’ - except that I made it with pork instead of beef (just had pork) and I made it just like my dad still makes it, with lots of red wine and cornichons in the sauce.
Well, where does the chocolate fit in?!
Today we delivered the goodies for ‘A spoonful of sin‘ - a dessert of the month club coming out of Manassas, Virginia. All members will get a package containing some of our chocolate confections, marzipan fruits and Wine Pate de Fruits. We are eager to hear what everyone thinks!
This Thursday we will be having a tasting event at Artfully Chocolate in Del Ray - it’s free and there is usually sparkling wine as well, so come on by if you have nothing else planned yet! The folks at Artfully do ask to RSVP (although walk-ins are always welcome) - we will make sure to have enough chocolate for everyone
Hey Chocolate Conoisseurs,
Sorry for the late notice, but tonight we will be tasting our chocolate confections at Artfully Chocolate in Alexandria, VA.
RSVP is advised - although we will bring enough chocolates to cover a good amount of walk-ins as well. 
We wouldn’t want you to lose out
If you haven’t been to Artfully Chocolate, get ready for an eclectic store that greets you with bright paintings and of course delicious treats by local artisans, such as us.
See you tonight!
About Sweet:
“The premier culinary festival for New York City’s” Food Network’s New York City Wine & Food Festival” is deeply concerned that more than 35 million Americans are at risk of hunger. That is why “We’re Sweet On†the Food Bank For New York City and Share Our Strength, two of America’s leading hunger-relief organizations and the hosts and beneficiaries of SWEET. ”
Why am I telling you this? Well we wanted to let you know that we participated in part in this event, as in providing Perrier Jouët with a specially made Wine Pate de Fruit made with pairings of:
- Perrier Jouët’s Grand Brut champagne paired with green apple puree
- Blason Rose champagne paired with fresh-squeezed pink grapefruit juice
Every visitor of the show will receive a complimentary favor from us and Perrier Jouët:
We were very happy to work with Perrier Jouët and to be able to contribute to the good cause of the event.
We were also surprised how well the champagne went with the Wine Pate de Fruit! In particular the Blason rose champagne and pink grapefruit make a good combination.
We will make up some boxes of this special selection for our upcoming one year anniversary - but that’s for another post!
Sounds good, doesn’t it?
We will be at Chrysalis Vineyards as part of their 7th Annual Norton Wine & Bluegras Festival. Bring a friend and enjoy good music, good wine and good chocolate on Saturday and Sunday from 10AM to 6PM. Of course there is a lot more to it as well. More info on the festival is here.
See you tomorrow or on Sunday!
We are heading towards our friends at the Sugar Cube Sweets in Alexandria. We already know that many will miss their favorite Rhubarb Caramel, but we have really fantastic new flavors lined up for the Holiday season. Also, our assortment grows to 12 different flavors, which we are proud of and think that each one is unique in flavor profile and appearance.
Come and visit us at The Sugar Cube Sweets and discuss our new flavors with us - or just enjoy!
We are in!
In the District that is
 William and Biagio from Biagio Fine Chococolate will start to carry our confections this week. We have a tasting on Thursday, September 27th from 6:30-8:30 PM.
We will have all of flavors of our standard assortment PLUS all new Fall/Winter flavor. You will see some old favorites of ours, but also new exciting flavors - well worth a trip to DC on Thursday!
On nother note, we are preparing seasonal gift baskets for this season. One of them is pictured below, we chose a lovely looking red tin to hold all of our gift box assortments, chocolate caramelized almonds, chocolate covered dried fruits and marzipan confections. Fully customizable, you will see it in our online store soon as well - if you need a couple for gift giving, just ask
Maybe it was a little windy to begin with. We were honestly not sure if the tent would still be standing - you see, we put it up on Friday night, so that we would be faster with setting up in the morning. Speaking of Friday night …. we ate at a German “Döner” stand. At a WHAT ?!? Yeah that’s right: Döner
“fresh lean meat from the rotisserie in a hot flatbread with a choice of salad and sauce” is what it says in the description - well, we know Döner of course from Germany ….. it got very popular there, due to its lean meat (the fat drips off of the rotisserie) and all the salad thats on it - you find it practically everywhere - as I remember the food came from Turkey or the Middle East. Anyway, it was delicious - if you visit the Hamburg-Döner guys on Catoctin Circle in Leesburg, VA say “Hi” to them from us and get the ’small’ version (unless you are REALLY hungry!
Alright, I really wanted to write about the festival though …. We were worried that the tent would have been blown away, since there were 30mph wind gusts throughout the night and even in to the morning …. BUT a little tape here and there and artistic usage of floral wire (to attach empty display gift box assortments to a water bottle, not to fly away!) and everything was in place.
We had fantastic weather otherwise and enjoyed all the buzz (literally) around. Saturday seemed a little more hectic than Sunday …. maybe just because we had to get into the rhythm though. We ran out of samples of our Pate de Fruit on Sunday afternoon and were completely out of samples by closing time on Sunday - so we were very happy with our estimation for those
All in all it was a fun event for everyone I think. We were happy to be able to add numerous folks to our mailing list and everyone promised us to keep us in mind for their Christmas gift giving.
We will unveil our Fall/Winter flavors soon and actually make a first batch this week to test the new recipes. We have a few tasting sessions coming up and I will keep you posted on those in a later post.
Until then!
