Hmmm…apparently you can’t use strike-through in a title! I wanted to title this post Meet Me in St. Louis Sonoma! Oh well. But really. Come meet me in Sonoma next week! Matt and I will be attending several events and if you’d like to come, I’d love to meet you. First, on April 14, Patrick [...]
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The Virginia Wine Club Meet-Up is having a gathering again at Piola in Rosslyn. April 30, from 5:30 pm on. Last time we all stayed for dinner and made a night out of it. Matt and I are closing on our house that day, or else we’d be there for sure. I loved the last [...]
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Both of our fearless leaders, Allan of Cellarblog and Leah of DcGastronome, were in attendance at the wine club happy hour! It was great to see Leah again and to meet Allan for the first. And I must say, Leah picked a fabulous place for the event. Piola is in Rosslyn and specializes in thin [...]
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On Wednesday, April 4th, starting at 5:30, the Virginia Meetup Wine Club is meeting at Piola in Rosslyn for Happy Hour. Piola is located at 1550 Wilson Boulevard, a mere 3 blocks from the Rosslyn Metro, so very easy to get to for those without cars or who prefer the Metro. Barring snow (please no, [...]
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On Friday we accepted the very kind invitation of one of Matt’s former coworkers to attend a happy hour that he was hosting at the Army Navy Club downtown. After several glasses of wine (no idea what it was beyond Merlot and Chardonnay since it was dressed up in fancy Army Navy Club labels) we [...]
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ETA: We are going to have change our answer here, the weather will be keeping us at home. I hope everyone has a great time and we will catch you at the next one! The most recent email for the Virginia Wine Club Meetup event managed to get lost in my inbox. Possibly due to [...]
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We had plans last night to go out with one of Matt’s new coworkers and the coworker’s girlfriend, but the girlfriend wasn’t feeling so well, so there was a last minute change of events. Instead we ended up out with around 10 of Matt’s coworkers and me. All of his coworkers are men, and they [...]
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As previously mentioned, we joined Leah of DC Gastronome (too cute with her food journal open the whole time!) at David Greggory for the Happy hour meeting of the DC/NOVA Meetup Wine Club. All in all, a good time was had. A good number of people showed up (I would say around 20 over the [...]
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