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-Mike and Jacqui

 
Samplings
09.04.10 | Chocolate and Wine Pairing at the Villa with Sweet Marguerites
Saturday noon-3pm Enjoy a complimentary chocolate and wine pairing featuring Sweet Marguerites.
Sweet Marguerites is the pride and joy of the Swoboda family, in South Portland, Maine. The family’s passion is making and sharing the finest homemade chocolates. Every step of the chocolate making process is done with care and using the finest ingredients. The Swobodas make each batch of chocolates entirely by hand. They consider the chocolate making process a craft and make their sweets with an artisan approach.

Marguerite has a culinary arts degree and has trained with chocolatiers from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY and Ecole Chocolate in Oregon. Her passion for chocolate keeps her in the kitchen many nights, testing new flavors and techniques. Nothing makes her happier than the process of melting and tempering fine couveture chocolate!

The remainder of the family, husband Bill, daughter Anna, and son Jeff, do just about everything else, from sample tasting, to construction, shipping and handling, production, web management, support and encouragement. Without them Sweet Marguerites would still be a dream..
 
For more information on Sweet Marguerites click here


09.05.10 | Cheese and Wine Pairing with Longfellow's Creamery
Sunday Noon-3pm Location: Cellardoor Vineyard 367 Youngtown Rd. Lincolnville

Enjoy a complimentary cheese and wine pairing featuring the rich and creamy cheeses of Longfellows Creamery.  For more information on Longfellow's Creamery visit www.longfellowscreamery.com



09.11.10 | Food and Wine Pairing with Ann Marie's Kitchen
Saturday Noon-3pm Enjoy a complimentary food and wine pairing at the Villa in Rockport featuring Ann Marie's Kitchen
For more information on Ann Marie's Kitchen visit www.annmarieskitchen.com


09.12.10 | Food and Wine pairing at the Vineyard with Pineland Farms
Sunday Noon-3pm Location: 367 Youngtown Road, Lincolnville, ME Enjoy a complimentary food and wine pairing featuring the local creations of Pineland Farms

Located in the rolling hills of New Gloucester, Maine, Pineland Farms is a 5,000-acre working farm, diverse business campus and educational and recreational venue that welcomes visitors to enjoy its beautiful rural landscape.

Pineland Farms' mission is to provide a productive and educational venue that enriches the community by demonstrating responsible farming techniques, offering educational opportunities and encouraging a healthy lifestyle through recreation.



09.12.10 | Food and Wine Pairing at the Villa with Fiore Olive Oils & Vinegars
Saturday Noon-3pm Location 47 West St. Rockport, ME Enjoy a complimentary food and wine pairing featuring the wonderful olive oils and vinegars of Fiore

Unfiltered Olive Oils and Balsamic Vinegars from Fiore

 

With its roots firmly planted in tradition, Fiore Olive Oils & Balsamic Vinegar is forging a new image of the modern artisan.

From a true respect for the olive tree to the insistence on quality and authenticity, Fiore's extra virgin unfiltered olive oil offers transparency and purity for the consumer who respects the harmony of nature with nutrition.

Fiore features an in-store tasting room offering a wide selection of premium extra virgin, cold pressed olive oil and aged balsamic vinegar from around the world. To ensure ultimate freshness, Fiore's products rotate to showcase the highest quality varieties from regions growing, harvesting and pressing olives each season. From the tree to the bottle, Fiore maximizes the authenticity of its products by limiting transport and air contamination. By hosting extra virgin (cold pressed) olive oil and aged balsamic vinegars in large stainless steel canisters throughout the store, Fiore's tasting room offers samplings of exact product for bottling.. This allows the consumer the ability to craft unique blends of unfiltered extra virgin olive oils and aged balsamic vinegars to their desired tastes. The oils and vinegars are then individually bottled and sealed on-site for purchase.

The mission of Fiore is to provide you, our consumer, with the freshest - highest quality - authentic - hard to find - specialty oils and vinegars, with excellent personal service in a pleasant atmosphere, all wrapped in the warm feel of an Old-World Shop.

Fiore Artisan Olive Oils & Balsamic Vinegars -- A New Definition of Health!



09.18.10 | Cheese and Wine Pairing with State of Maine Cheese
Saturday Noon-3pm Enjoy a complimentary cheese and wine pairing at the Villa featuring State of Maine Cheese

About State of Maine Cheese

"Nestled in the heart of Midcoast Maine, State of Maine Cheese has been hand-crafting fine cheeses for over twenty-five years using cow's milk from local farms.

Our natural milk comes from Oakhurst Dairy in Portland, Maine and our MOFGA certified organic milk comes from Caldwell Farms in Turner, Maine. Both dairies choose not to use artificial bovine growth hormone in their milk production.

We are proud to be the home of the Rockport Marketplace where we carry many fine products made right here in Maine and beyond. From our store customers can watch cheese being made in our production room. We also offer tours of our production area on days when we are not making cheese, but we ask that you please call ahead to arrange a time first." For more information visit www.cheese-me.com



09.19.10 | Food and Wine Pairing with Ann Marie's Kitchen
Sunday noon-3pm Enjoy a complimentary food and wine pairing at our Vineyard tasting room in Lincolnville featuring Ann Marie's Kitchen.
For more information on Ann Marie's Kitchen visit www.annmarieskitchen.com


09.25.10 | Cheese and Wine Pairing at the Villa with Seal Cove Farm
Saturday noon-3pm Enjoy a complimentary cheese and wine pairing at the Villa featuring the fabulous cheeses of Seal Cove Farm

Seal Cove Farm's high producing herd of 125 goats is their foundation. They have been making and selling cheese since 1980. Their commitment to producing the highest quality milk, an element in superior cheeses, continues.

For more information on Seal Cove Farm click here



09.26.10 | Cheese and Wine Pairing at the Vineyard with Garden Lore Creamery
Sunday noon-3pm Enjoy a complimentary Cheese and Wine pairing at the Vineyard featuring the wonderful cheeses of Garden Lore Creamery.
Garden Lore grew out of the necessity to help pay for a 4-H goat project. They sell homemade chevre in many flavors, ricotta, mozzarella, and also a basic vinegar goat cheese which is preferred by some.


10.09.10 | Chocolate and Wine Pairing at the Villa with Dean's Sweets
Saturday Noon-3pm Location 47 West St. Rockport, ME Enjoy a complimentary chocolate and wine pairing featuring the fabulous chocolates of Portland's Dean's Sweets
Dean's Sweets offers elegant, exceptional, extraordinary, hand-dipped truffles created from the finest imported dark chocolate. Luscious flavors include brandy, rum (Myers Dark), scotch (single malt), orange, raspberry, coffee, peppermint, ginger, plain, and cayenne(!). White chocolate with rum is also available. All with a rich dark chocolate coating.

For the chocolate connoisseur, what makes these truffles so unusually fine are their uncommonly good ingredients – centers are made with a delectable 56% cocoa content (excepting of course the white chocolate) and the coating is a rich 70%.



10.10.10 | Chocolate and Wine Pairing with Black Dinah Chocolatiers
Sunday Noon-3pm Location: Cellardoor Vineyard 367 Youngtown Road, Lincolnville
Enjoy a complimentary chocolate and wine pairing with the silky chocolates of Black Dinah Chocolatiers.  For more information on Black Dinah Chocolatiers visit www.blackdinahchocolatiers.com


10.16.10 | Chocolate and Wine pairing at the Villa with Sweet Marguerites
Saturday noon-3pm Enjoy a complimentary chocolate and wine pairing featuring the savory flavors of Sweet Marguerites chocolates.
Sweet Marguerites is the pride and joy of the Swoboda family, in South Portland, Maine. The family’s passion is making and sharing the finest homemade chocolates. Every step of the chocolate making process is done with care and using the finest ingredients. The Swobodas make each batch of chocolates entirely by hand. They consider the chocolate making process a craft and make their sweets with an artisan approach.

Marguerite has a culinary arts degree and has trained with chocolatiers from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY and Ecole Chocolate in Oregon. Her passion for chocolate keeps her in the kitchen many nights, testing new flavors and techniques. Nothing makes her happier than the process of melting and tempering fine couveture chocolate!

The remainder of the family, husband Bill, daughter Anna, and son Jeff, do just about everything else, from sample tasting, to construction, shipping and handling, production, web management, support and encouragement. Without them Sweet Marguerites would still be a dream..
 
For more information on Sweet Marguerites click here.


10.17.10 | Cheese and Wine Pairing with Longfellow's Creamery
Sunday Noon-3pm Enjoy a complimentary cheese and wine pairing at the vineyard featuring the fabulous organic cheeses of Longfellow's Creamery
For more information on Longfellow's creamery visit www.longfellowscreamery.com