Treasure Valley Food and Wine Blog

I know, it's almost over. Sorry I missed it. But there are still 3 days to celebrate and to help you do that, look at American Craft Beer Week in the Boise Weekly. Here is some more information on the remaining events from the Boise Weekly. -Crooked Fence will feature specialty beers on its Garden

The Treasure Valley Wine Society held another Wine Tasting with Pinot Grigio being the featured wine. Many thanks to Lisa Gaddis of the Idaho Wine Merchant for giving the presentation. And look at this photo - Melissa won the 3 Horse Ranch Vineyards 2008 Riesling! Congratulations to Melissa. Here

I just loved this evening sunset sky in Boise as I was leaving the Buzz after a wonderful Monthly Wine Club Dinner - Magazines. Cristi did a great job in explaining to everyone the magazines that are available about wines and also on the rating systems. She did a blind tasting tonight, a change from

Coming soon to Boise! Taste 208! May 12, 2012 (Sat) from 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM. Riverside Hotel, 2900 W. Chinden Boulevard. From the Juice Site, "TASTE208 is a tasting event focused on the “spring release” of the best local beer, wine, spirits, and food in Idaho, the PacNW, and the West Coast region.

Hats off to Robin for selecting some awesome Rosé Wines for the tasting tonight. And then for her working with Chef Jake to create an great, and different, buffet line. This was a super good evening! Look at what we had for dinner. Some of tonight's wines are pictured to the left. Robin's comments

Wow! What an exceptional wine dinner. Cristi you outdid yourself! The theme tonight for the April Wine Club was Social Media Wine Dinner. Cristi went through a fairly complete list of the social media that is available and the pluses and minuses of each. Interesting. The wines were very good also

We hear a lot about TBA wines. How they make an awesome dessert wine. How expensive they are! How smooth and sweet and a fruit orchard in your mouth. Here is some information I found about a TBA. The photo here is of one such wine from our cellar. AP right now? $427.00 for this magnum. The purchase

I received this information from Gretchen Anderson (thebycf@gmail.com) and thought I would pass it on. For you Backyard Chickeners, this might be an ideal event. You grow the chickens ... we will buy the eggs. Left-Click the graphic to see a larger view. Contact Gretchen directly via email for more

Because of the "non-static" nature of information from the Buzz, I am going to post their articles on this main page. I think it works better. With that in mind and since it is snowing outside and the Irish Soda Bread class that we held is over, here is the latest from Cristi and Tommy at the Buz