Cheese Anyone?

Through my passion for wines and my obsession to offer the finest in our area, a new love emerged...CHEESE.  Admittedly, it was a natural progression and has proving to be satisfying beyond my wildest dreams.

It is so much fun to expose our guests to cheese and encourage them to taste the differences, understand that like wine, it reflects the terroir.

Am I getting off the chain here?  Can't help it.  I just completed my second cheese class at the Institut du Fromage and it has me on fire.  I want to taste and talk cheese nonstop.

The Institut is a two day intensive of tasting, grading, smelling, touching and talking cheese with the actual cheese makers, chemists, president of the American Cheese Society and other mongers around the country. 

Thankfully, there is plenty more for me to study, taste and learn but for now I look forward to sharing what I know with you,


Let's taste some cheese!


Salut!

Honey...It's good!

Things move sort of slow after the holidays in Blue Ridge so Linda and I, along with our three cats headed for Lake Mystic...my family's vacation get away for nearly 70 years.  Nothing to do there but canoe, walk, rollerblade, read and eat!  Oh yes--and sleep...the cats insisted we sleep!

J.M. Duggar--Bee Keeper

While we were there, we paid a visit to an old neighbor across the Lake who happens to produce Linda's favorite honey on the planet.  Only producing Tupelo honey, which he calls "tupela"...Mr. Duggar has it down to an art...after 50+ years of bee keeping.  So you see where my story is going...We now carry "tupela" honey from Mr. Duggar at Out of the Blue.  Delicious and nutrious, we sampled it last Saturday on some fresh chevre with roasted Georgia Pecans.

Stop in--this is too sweet to miss!