Fun morning at the vineyards!

I went out east today to see Kerry, the Events Coordinator at Duck Walk Vineyards. What a great morning it turned out to be! I brought 3 cakes for her to sample: lemon cake filled with blackberry buttercream and iced in lemon buttercream, chocolate cake filled with apricot-Grand Marnier buttercream and iced in almond buttercream, and yellow cake filled with raspberry buttecream, iced in milk chocolate buttercream and accented in chocolate ganache. She was there to sample the cakes, as were Michael and Gina of Duck Walk as well. To my delight, the cakes went over quite well!

Kerry generously bestowed a handful of bottles of wine on me: the Duck Walk Windmill Blush, the sauvignon blanc, the blueberry port, and a boysenberry dessert wine. Frankly the latter two beg to be incorporated into an icing or filling, and tested on a new variety of cake!





Tonight, I tried the Windmill Blush at home, after trying it and falling in love with it in the tasting room today. Mmmmm! It's wonderful chilled, and can see how it would be especially refreshing and satisfying on a hot summer day. Leslie, the owner of Rita's Ices in Oceanside, sent me on a quest for Pindar Summer Blush. Although Summer Blush and Windmill blush are both made from the same single grape, they're made by different winemakers. Thank you, Leslie, for my new discovery!

I'm very excited to have been included in Duck Walk's preferred vendor list for wedding cakes, and am eager to work with Duck Walk's staff, as well as their brides and grooms. This is going to be great fun!

Next time, I'll blog about Barbara at Macari Vineyards. But for now, it's off to sleep for me!


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