Tag: wine

• Rune x Daylily Estates: everything is sunlight…

  

  “Wine is sunlight held together by water.” Solid quote. Thanks, Galileo. It’s poetic yet scientific, reverent and kind of cheeky at the same time, but did you know that he dropped even more knowledge in the next sentence? It might not fit on a cross stitch but check it: “The light of a sun, with…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  January 19, 2025

  A Love Story, Pairings, Wine & Food

  #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #WinePairing, food, wine, wine-tasting, winery

• Daylily Estates: they’re here to do it better…

  

  Sometimes we live our lives accepting the status quo because we don’t know any better. Then a disruptor comes along and paints our world in the technicolor of possibility–and suddenly nothing will ever be the same. Calling Daylily Estates a ‘disruptor’ feels a little funny, because there’s nothing particularly rebellious about what they’re doing. I…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  April 22, 2024

  A Love Story, Reviews, Wine & Food

  #Brianna, #Catawba, #CleanWine, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #petnat, #RegenerativeFarming, #SupportLocal, #Traminette, #Wine, wine, wine-tasting

• Bistro Nota & Scarpetta Wine Dinner: either you already know that there are remarkable things happening in the culinary scene in Fort Wayne or you’re wrong…

  

  Three chefs. Five courses. Five wine pairings. One unforgettable evening. If you haven’t attended a wine dinner at Bistro Nota yet, then I guess I’m sorry that your life is so sad and empty. The food is always faultless, the atmosphere cozy, and the pours generous. Honestly, I live for wine dinners at Bistro Nota–because…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  March 31, 2024

  Pairings, Wine & Food

  #food, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #Italianwine, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #ScarpettaWine, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #WinePairing, food, wine, wine-pairing, wine-tasting

• Junk Ditch French Pairing Dinner: oh là là!

  

  I love French food. It’s special, bordering on magical. There’s something astonishing about simple ingredients transfigured to become greater than the sum of their parts through skillful technique. An ordinary chicken becomes extraordinary, elegant even, when prepared with French style. When it comes to la cuisine française, an emphasis is always placed on quality ingredients,…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  March 26, 2024

  Pairings, Wine & Food

  #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #FrenchFood, #FrenchWine, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #WinePairing, food, wine

• Junk Ditch Brewing NYE Tasting Dinner: the perfect playground for a courageous odyssey of the palate…

  

  New Year’s Eve is full of magic. It’s the one night of the year where humanity shares in the biggest “goodbye” and also the “hello” that holds the most potential. We collectively countdown the last ten seconds of the year while, at the speed of light, we are catapulted into the next. For a solitary…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  January 1, 2024

  Pairings, Reviews, Wine & Food

  #2024, #Chef, #doughnut, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #MushroomSoup, #NewYearsEve, #Steak, #SupportLocal, #TastingMenu, #Wine, #WinePairing, cabernet-sauvignon, food, wine, wine-pairing, wine-tasting

• Bistro Nota Italian Wine Dinner: all my Christmas dreams have come true…

  

  I’m a simple girl. I don’t want much for Christmas. Maybe a few bottles of wine under the tree, some yummy things tucked in my stocking, and–if I’ve been a particularly good girl–maybe some fancy cheeses in the fridge as a Christmas morning surprise. My Christmas list most resembles a grocery list: an oddity for…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  December 22, 2023

  Reviews, Wine & Food

  #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #FreshPasta, #Italianwine, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #OssoBucco, #Secco, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #WinePairing, food, restaurant, seafood, travel, wine

• What sauce pairs best with the Sanderson sisters…?

  

  Spooky season is fast approaching and, as uninspired as you may find my deeply held opinion to be, I think Hocus Pocus is the best Halloween movie ever: hands down, period, end of sentence. Though I will date myself with this admission, I still recall seeing it in theaters when I was young and being…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  September 23, 2022

  Pairings

  #FortWayne, #FortWayneFoodie, food and wine, Foodie, franklinhill, halloween, hocuspocus, leelanaucellars, Midwest, sandersonsisters, spellbound, wine, witchesbrew

• What kind of wine pairs best with existential dread…?

  

  What kind of wine pairs best with existential dread and the overwhelming desire to perpetually procrastinate starting a food and wine blog? I don’t know if there is a right answer to that question and sometimes I worry that my lack of certainty might make me the wrong person for the job. There’s so much…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  September 1, 2022

  Pairings, Wine & Food

  Easton Wine Project, food and wine, Foodie, Midwest, wine