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The Well-Equipped Wine Geek – Cheese Tools

December 6, 2016 by Joe Becerra

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Cheese tools for the wine geek

Well-Equipped Wine Geek – Cheese Tools

Cheese and wine go hand-in-hand. How nice it is to sit in a comfortable chair with a book, a glass of wine and some cheese. Life can’t get much better than that! When entertaining guests, what can be easier to serve but a selection of soft and hard cheeses along with good wine? The Well-Equipped Wine Geek should have a variety of cheese tools.

The Well-Equipped Wine Gift will have the appropriate cheese tools for presenting and serving cheese. Open a bottle of chilled white, Rosé or sparkling wine, and serve with a set of different types of cheeses, hard or soft. Open a bottle of light red and serve with some tasty hard cheese.

Rule of Thumb: Always have a chunk of cheese on hand in the refrigerator for when you want to savor a glass of wine just before the dinner hour. My favorites are Manchego and Fontina. I like the Manchego at Costco and the Fontina from a local store within walking distance of my home.


Buy these Cheese Tools now for the Well-Equipped Wine Geek

  • Bamboo Cheese Board with Cheese Tools, Cheese Plate Charcuterie Board Platter Set Serving Tray for Wine Cracker Brie and Meat, Large Thick Wooden Server, Fancy House Warming Gift for Gourmets
  • Ourokhome Manual Rotary Cheese Grater – Round Tumbling Box Shredder for Vegetable, Nuts, Potato with Peeler and Brush (Red)
  • Bellemain Adjustable Thickness Cheese Slicer – Replacement Stainless Steel Cutting Wire Included – 1-year Warranty
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Pass the cheese please

Filed Under: Well-Equipped Wine Geek Tagged With: cheese tools, Wine and Cheese

Monticello Vineyards experiments with wine flavored cheese

January 26, 2012 by Ray

This is a guest blog post by Vintage Wine Taster and good friend Ray Conti. Ray and his wife recently took a trip to the Monticello winery on Big Ranch Road in the Napa Valley. They escorted two friends who own a dairy near Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Their two Santa Fe friends, Ed & Michael Lobaugh, own The Old Windmill Dairy® just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. They make a wonderful variety of artisan goat and cow cheeses. At a Wine & Cheese festival in Carlsbad, Monticello Vineyard’s Stephen Corley approached them and indicated the winery might be interested in combining the Monticello wines with their Gouda cheeses. Monticello sent a case of their wines containing three varietals: Estate grown Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Sauvignon.

About Monticello Winery

Monticello is a small winery by Napa standards (15,000 cases), but their quality makes up for the small quantity. Jay Corley founded the winery in 1970 and today sons Kevin, Stephen and Chris Corey are operating the winery. Kevin oversees the operation, Stephen is in charge of sales, and Chris is the winemaker. The winery lies just above the town of Napa. It is on Big Ranch Road that can be accessed from Oak Knoll Road. They have three lines of wine: Corley Reserve, Corley Family wines, and Monticello Reserve wines. Their specialties are Cabernet, Pinot Noir, Merlot and Chardonnay. The friendly tasting room is opposite a 1/3 scale replica of Jefferson’s Monticello; a tribute to America’s first serious wine collector. This is a fun place to start a wine tour of the Napa Valley

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Filed Under: Tasting Rooms, Wine News Tagged With: Kevin Corley, Monticello experiments with cheese, Monticello Vineyards Napa, Old Windmill Dairy. Napa Valley Wine Blog, Stephen Corley, Wine and Cheese

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