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A Candid Look: The 2025 Wine & Chocolate Happy Hour

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A Candid Look: The 2025 Wine & Chocolate Happy Hour So, you’ve probably seen the posts and heard the chatter about the 2025 ‘Wine & Chocolate Happy Hour’, right? Well, I had this feeling I absolutely needed to check it out myself, you know, to give you the real story. Frankly, the idea of an evening dedicated to two of my favorite things seemed almost too good to be true. I went in with some pretty high expectations, I mean, hoping for something more than just some standard wine and grocery store chocolate. At the end of the day, I …

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A First Look at 2025’s Top Tasting: Rare Cheese, Unique Salami, and Wine

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A First Look at 2025’s Top Tasting: Rare Cheese, Unique Salami, and Wine So, the moment I stepped inside the tasting room, I just knew this experience would be different. The air itself was, you know, kind of filled with this incredible mix of aromas, a little earthy from the cheeses and a little bit spicy from the meats hanging to cure. Honestly, it was a pretty promising start to what they called the top tasting preview for 2025. You could almost feel the stories behind every single product before you even saw them on the board. We were there …

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