Winemaker Dinner at Portage

Portage is featuring Steppe Cellars for their Fat Tuesday celebration. Portage is a French Restaurant located on Queen Anne hill in Seattle. Great food and wine pairings. This is a ticketed event. www.portagerestaurant.com

Wine Bar at Bon Vinos

Bon Vinos is featuring Steppe Cellars wine along with tapas every Thursday - Saturday from 4:00 -6:00. Anke and Roger have worked together to come up with some terrific pairings.

Wine,Chocolate, and great conversation

What a lot of fun this past weekend was. We had such a great time visiting with everyone - catching up with all of you whom we have met before and meeting so many new people. ~ And the chocolate pairings Anke planned we think were great. The dark chocolate was 70% cocoa and when paired with the blueberries it really brought out a lot of flavors in both the chocolate and the wine. The other surprise pairing was the salty cracker with the chili chocolate. It was a nice compliment to the wine -not too sweet with the red wines.

Red Wine and Chocolate

This February 14, 15 and 16 wineries around the Yakima Valley will be celebrating the Valentine's Day weekend with Red Wine and Chocolate. At Steppe Cellars, we will have several different chocolate fondues for you to sample and pair with wine. Each chocolate fondue will be set up at a sensory station. You will be able to try to identify the smells and the tastes that make that particular chocolate different from the others. At the same time you can try identifying the aromas in the various red wines we will be sampling and decide for yourself which wines you feel pair best with which chocolates.
It should be a lot of fun. There are no "right" or "wrong" pairings - just some great chocolate to go along with some great wine.
We hope to see you there.