Wines of Instagram

wineandcheesefriday December 14, 2018 No Comments

In December each year, we come up with some wine compilation entries to showcase some wines we tried throughout the year. This year we posted quite a few wines to Instagram that you might not have heard about. If you have an Instagram account, follow us @winecheesefri. If you don’t use Instagram, you’re in luck because you can still see our posts below. There’s even a direct link to each post if you want to read through the comments or see a little more about each one. Read More…

Best of Blog~Entries

wineandcheesefriday March 22, 2018 No Comments

We continue celebrating 5 years of Wine and Cheese Friday with our favorite entries. We chose these entries by the total experience we had during the pairing or tasting. When Maria made her choices she kept changing her favorites but I guess that means we’ve had some really good experiences! Read More…

Categories: Other Wine and Cheese Experience Tags: Tags: 5 years, Arona, belle chèvre, best of the blog, british cheese, cheese cave, Cheese Please, cheese plus, Cowgirl creamery, Emmentaler cheese, favorite entries, french cheese, goat cheese, Hawley Winery, healdsburg, Luigi Guffanti, Maria Ferraro Beardsley, merlot, para derretir cheese, Point Reyes, Sapphire Hill, Sauvignon blanc, vino de coyol, wineandcheesefriday

Canihan Pinot Noir and Robiola a 3 Latti

wineandcheesefriday March 13, 2015 No Comments

After tasting the cheeses at the Cheese Plus event (https://wineandcheesefriday.com/cheese-plus-tasting-second-day-saturday/) we knew we had to try another one of the Luigi Guffanti cheeses with some wine. We became so familiar with this cheese brand last year when we visited their cheese cave (https://wineandcheesefriday.com/a-trip-to-a-cheese-cave-arona-piedmont-italy/). What better wine to try with the Robiola a 3 latti (3 milks) than a Pinot Noir, especially one that I used to sell at work and already knew the characteristics. Since this wine is from 2006, we opened it at 630 and waited to taste it for about 45 minutes.

Categories: Wine and Cheese Pairing Tags: Tags: canihan Pinot Noir, cheese, cheese plus, funk, luigi Guffanti Robiola a 3 latti, Maria Ferraro Beardsley, Piedmont cheese, wine, wineandcheesefriday

Cheese Plus Tasting (Second Day) Saturday

wineandcheesefriday January 22, 2015 No Comments

We were both able to attend the second night of the Cheese Plus event on Saturday. It was a great time, and some delicious cheeses were sampled and purchased.

Categories: Cheese Tasting Tags: Tags: cheese, cheese plus, Forever Cheese, Il Forteto, italian cheese, Luigi Guffanti, Maria Ferraro Beardsley, Moser, Neil Beardsley, Quality Cheese, Switzerland cheese, the Rogers Collection, wineandcheesefriday

Cheese Plus Intimate and Exclusive Tasting Friday

wineandcheesefriday January 17, 2015 No Comments

When we attended the Cheese Plus tasting during The Fancy Food show weekend, last year, we had such a wonderful time! We learned about cheeses from all over the world and made some great connections. We knew the event was coming soon so we marked our calendars once we received this year’s invite from Cheese Plus, http://cheeseplus.com. Due to our schedules, Neil and I planned to attend on different days. I will be writing about Friday and he will cover Saturday’s vendors.

Categories: Cheese Tasting Tags: Tags: cheese, cheese plus, Columbia cheese, french cheese, Manicaretti italian food importers, Maria Ferraro Beardsley, Mons Fromager, Oregon cheese, rodolphe le meunière, rogue creamery, wineandcheesefriday

Florida Muscadine White Dessert Wine and Harbourne Goat Blue Cheese

wineandcheesefriday May 2, 2014 No Comments

This week we are revisiting a wine from our past. Florida Muscadine, white dessert wine is produced by Rosa Fiorelli Winery, where I used to work. (http://www.fiorelliwinery.com/) This wine was one of our best sellers because the muscadine grape works so well for a dessert wine! It’s been a while since we’ve had it so I was curious how sweet it would actually be?

Categories: Wine and Cheese Pairing Tags: Tags: cheese, cheese plus, Florida Muscadine white dessert wine, Harbourne goat blue cheese, London cheese, Maria Ferraro Beardsley, muscadine grape, Rosa Fiorelli Winery, wine, wine and cheese Friday

Cabernet Sauvignon, Grafton 2 Year Cheddar & Cabernet Matinee Dark Chocolate

wineandcheesefriday February 15, 2014 No Comments

As a special treat for Valentine’s Day, we not only paired wine and cheese but added some chocolate. Not a bad deal if you ask me! We wanted to step it up a bit so the wine today will be a Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley. Since there is more than one pairing happening the entry will be wine, cheese, wine and cheese, chocolate, wine and chocolate. Enjoy!

Categories: Wine and Cheese Pairing Tags: Tags: CabernetMatineeDarkChocolate, CabernetSauvignon, cheese, cheese plus, chocolate, Ghiradelli, Grafton 2 year Cheddar, Maria Ferraro Beardsley, wine, wineandcheesefriday, WinerySF

Cheese Tasting at Cheese Plus

wineandcheesefriday January 25, 2014 No Comments

We heard about a public cheese tasting and couldn’t wait to attend. The event took place at Cheese Plus, an upscale specialty store, who has cheese plus. (http://cheeseplus.com/) The tasting event featured cheese producers who were all in town for the Fancy Food Show.

Categories: Cheese Tasting Tags: Tags: cheese, cheese made in belgium, cheese plus, Columbia cheese, herve mons, hubaner, Luigi Guffanti, Maria Ferraro Beardsley, rogue creamery, wine and cheese Friday