Category: Tour/Experience
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Mezcal Tasting at Tahona Mercado
We had first heard about Tahona Mercado after sitting at the bar for dinner at Californios in 2022. It sounded like a really interesting place, but we never made it around to visit. And then after having such great experiences tasting mezcal in Oaxaca, I can remember sitting on the Aeromexico plane while we were
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Crawford Market
We had to buy some spices while we were here, so we went to the Crawford Market. We ended up at Spice King and picked up a nice variety of spices to take home. Can’t wait to try these at home. Yum! https://www.crawford-market.com
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Pride Mountain Vineyards
Andrea and I have been visiting Pride for more than 20+ years ever since I read about a very positive review of their wines in Wine Spectator back in the late ’90s. We’ve had many other wine club subscriptions come and go, but Pride has been the one consistent one. Kristine and I have been
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Bella Union
After our tasting at Nickel & Nickel, we had a little time to kill before dinner, so some of us went looking for another tasting. Nancy at N&N told use we could just walk-in at Bella Union, one of their sister wineries in the Far Niente family. It seemed quite crowded and the facilities at
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Nickel & Nickel
As part of Kristine’s b-day weekend, we were tasting at Nickel & Nickel where Dave was a member. We were members about 10 years ago and hadn’t been here since an event in 2013 having enjoyed their wines in the past (I saw we still have one bottle of N&N left, a 2009 Tench Vineyard.
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Ode to Caviar
I created a new website page just dedicated to caviar. Check it out!
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SingleThread Store and Farm Tour
The morning before dinner, we did SingleThread farm tour. It was nice to see what are relatively humble ingredients here on the farm. Everything was so vibrant and alive and bursting with fruit and vegetables. We were able to taste some of the various tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, and herbs…so fresh and flavorful and fragrant. The
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Dandelion Chocolate Factory Tour
https://www.dandelionchocolate.com/pages/experiences#tours
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Real Minero
Here we learned a lot about their conservation efforts to educate, promote, and preserve agave in Oaxaca. There are over 270 varietes of agave of which 60 or 70 are available in Oaxaca. Tequila uses a mono-culture of blue agave, but mezcal can use many different varieties of agave, the most common one being espadin
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Portozuelo
This was our location for our dinner where we used all the ingredients we purchased earlier in the day. We split our group into 3 teams – Andrea was on the team that worked on tamales and I was on the team that worked on the mole negro. Another team worked on another mole that