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Spring Cleaning and Strawberry Wine Granita

April 22, 2013 by rachelocal

We are a few weeks into Spring, and Winter is just leaving us. For some reason, I can’t pry Winter’s icy cold fingers from my psyche. But we enjoyed a few sunny, but chilly days this weekend–perfect spring cleaning weather. I laced up my cleaning shoes and got to work. I started on the car first. I don’t think it’s been cleaned since last summer, because the amount of sand I dislodged from the front seat could have built a […]

Categories: Recipes, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Wineries • Tags: books, food, reading, spring, spring cleaning, strawberry wine, wine

Let’s Taste Some Wine!

November 7, 2012 by rachelocal

Rachel’s Table Local Red Wine Challenge Join me as I blind taste test some local wines from Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia! {Disclaimer and Spoiler Alert (watch the riveting video first to see which wine gets my highest rating): Seeing as I could not find a local Zinfandel (this type of vine does not exist in the mid-Atlantic states), I chose to compare the California Zinfandels with simple red table wines. In all fairness to the local wineries, maybe their reds […]

Categories: Random, Video, Wineries • Tags: drinking, food, fresca, humor, local, movember, video, vlog, wine, wine tasting

Blueberry Wine

July 5, 2012 by rachelocal

Posting while on the beach drinking local blueberry wine? Yes please! Thank you, Vacation, thank you.

Categories: Farmer's Markets, Wineries • Tags: blueberries, farmer's market, food, local, wine

Liquid Poetry at Chaddsford Winery

April 28, 2012 by rachelocal

My friends and I meandered over to Chadds Ford, PA for a little fun and a wine tasting. Seeing as I’m going completely local in just over a month, I need to start nailing down where I’m going to get the necessities, like wine. I don’t take myself too seriously, but there’s always something very serious about wine. Tasting wine is an event, an experience. It even comes with its own vocabulary. My friends and I decided words like complexity, […]

Categories: Local Stores, Wineries • Tags: brandywine valley wine trail, Chaddsford Winery, cheese, food, life, local, wine