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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

… for the Wine Club Event at Cork & Fork in Gainesville, VA tonight.

This event is a special gathering of Cork & Fork’s VIP guest list and we are happy to be able to supply all connoisseurs with our chocolate confections tonight.

If you are interested in attending a future VIP event at Cork & Fork, just sign up for their mailing list!

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

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!

I know, I know ….. I am letting you know so late - but - we have been incredibly busy this week and do not only prepare for the upcoming tasting at our favorite wine store in Alexandria [-> Unwined], but also for the Wine festival in Leesburg the next week - more on that later though.

So, we hope to see y’all at Unwined on Sunday 09.09.2007 from 5:30pm - 7:30pm …. there will be plenty of good wine and chocolate - who could resist?

See you there!

For Labor Day we will be present at both of our favorite wineries to serve you all of our chocolate confections and wine pate de fruit. If you had nothing big planned yet - this is the perfect opportunity to enjoy a sunny day out west in horse country, sipping some great Virginia wine and enjoy our complimentary chocolate with it.

Come on over and join us on the weekend, specifically on Saturday, September 1st at Pearmund Cellars and The Winery at La Grange around 12 to 5pm….

Don’t miss it - See you there!

Just as a little reminder:

Tomorrow we will be at Cork and Fork in Gainesville, VA to give a complimentary chocolate & wine tasting.  In addition, the Virginia Gateway community will be celebrating a “Midsummer’s Night of Music” with performances by New Day Rising and The Josh Burgess Band.

Our class on Saturday is completely sold out and we already got some requests for more As we are preparing the folders for our students and outline the different processes for the groups, the idea of having all-day classes becomes more realistic and we might just do more in the future That would most likely not happen before the ‘big’ season though, because we will just be too busy - any helpers out there?

Snapshot from earlier this week as follow-up on the last post …

We got away for a weekend to visit our parents in Ohio and since I have never been up to the lake that close, we decided to drive up to one of the islands and have some wine and enjoy ourselves there. Regarding the wine … well - it really makes you appreciate Pearmund Cellars and the Winery at La Grange I won’t call any names up there though … Later that day we went to a winery called Mon Ami and their Cabernet Sauvignon tasted really good along with the orange crusted salmon I had.

Anyway, what I wanted to mention is that we were walking across the island and found a chocolate museum. Skeptic as I am we went in and although I won’t spent any time describing the chocolate confections (more traditional, cream based american style) I have to say that the ‘museum’ is kind of cute and interesting. It is very small (one room) but it showcases a lot of older candy boxes from the US and it is nice to see the development of chocolate and candies here. I walked out surprised and was wondering if I would ever want to remind people of chocolate history in a future retail space - just another thing to add onto my wish list

Back at home I tried a new red from Australia (Red Belly Shiraz) and it paired quite
well with our Liberty Squares whiskey chocolates.

Oh, and although I did not make any pictures of the chocolate museum, I have some nice ones here from a guy telling us about the battle of lake Erie in 1813.

… it was yesterday. We were out and about at The Winery at La Grange and gave a tasting of our Wine Pate de Fruit and the Libertysquares. Everybody enjoyed them and we actually stayed longer than planned - not only because of all the hungry mouths to fill, but also to get some goat cheese, crackers and wine and to sit outside in the shade, on the grass and just relax for a little bit. Now this is how I like working

Today we made more Pate de Fruit, because we were completely out. We will probably be at both wineries again on July the 4th to celebrate and enjoy Independence Day. Melanie and I will split up, but only for 3-4 hours or so, then re-unite to enjoy the fireworks in Manassas. Step by and have some wine and chocolate, or see if you can spot us in Oldtown Manassas.

Happy 4th of July everyone!