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Sunset Supper at Pike’s Place Market 2010

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Sunset Supper at Pike Place

Friday, August 13th, 2010 found us at the Pike Place Market and the 15th Annual Sunset Supper event. It was an honor to be there among all those wonderful restaurants, wineries, breweries and spirit companies (we love that Intrigue Chocolates defies categorization!). All 80 entities , 1,000 paying customers enjoying the night out, and 150 volunteers, joined together by the Market Foundation’s mission to raise money for their community.

If you were there you know there was a definite buzz of excitement in the air, and if you stopped by our booth, you were having a blast! People really did seem to be having a good time, and we saw a lot of excited truffle-sampling going on!

The weather was awesome, wine was flowing, Seattle’s top chefs were cooking. Add live music to all of that and it was a good party! It was great to work with Seattle Uncorked once again, and we are so pleased to be part of the tradition of neighborhood that the Market Foundation works to preserve. Social services provided in the marketplace include; senior center, daycare, preschool and food bank. All valuable services for valuable Seattle residents!

Meridian Market Wine – Truffle Tasting

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Dylan and Aaron Setting Up

Organic. Local products. Music to our ears.

That’s what we hear at the Meridian Market whenever we visit. And the music was as loud as ever last Wednesday evening (July 28,2010). Those folks who joined us to taste five wines paired with our truffles agreed that the combinations were truly melodious.

The category for the tasting was “summer wines”, with three of the five being poured out that night being white wines. What makes a wine a summer wine? Thirst quenching and light, that’s what! And these five representatives certainly met those requirements.

What makes a chocolate truffle a “summer chocolate truffle”? Why, any Intrigue chocolate truffle that you eat with a summer wine, of course!

As usual we enjoyed our time at the Meridian Market. It’s just cool to be in a place of business that has a genuine commitment to community.
And we love their honesty; “We’ve got things you need and lots of cool stuff you don’t actually need but probably want.” This market is the antidote to Psycho-Super-Corporate-Mega-Stores!

Seattle Luxury Chocolate Salon, 2010

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This was our third time (3rd annual, too) at the Seattle Chocolate Salon and we enjoy it more every year! In some ways we were better prepared, therefore better able to lead participants through an enjoyable experience of the chocolate-hazed day. (See Karl’s awesome “how-to” survival tips for the event). Then again, the salon threw us for a new loop, and that was a fun challenge, too.

At the last minute we were approached with the opportunity to make a presentation (the sudden opening was NOT due to “death by chocolate”, that is a different event!). We accepted the challenge and teamed up with Quady Wineries to make an Intrigue truffle – wine pairings presentation that went wonderfully.
(Thanks to Brian from Quady and Diane, our guest presenter. She did a great job introducing the winery and describing the wines for our audience.)

Aaron walked everyone through what he thought were the best matches for the day. (How do you decide what pairings to make?, he was asked the other day. “The hard part is, ya’ gotta’ drink the wine.”, was his sage reply….) Here’s what he came up with;
Mojito and White Electra (slightly effervescent, made from an orange muscat grape)
Balsamic Strawberry-Red Electra (black muscat grape, a red wine)
Lavender Lemonade-White Essensia (White Electra that is fortified and non-fizzy)
St. Basil-Elysium (Red Electra that is fortified and non-fizzy)
Jamaican HOT Chocolate-Starboard (can’t call it Port, ‘cuz it’s not from Portugal! Does that qualify as a punny?)

Much more about the event soon…and keep fingers crossed for the awards announcement!

Intrigue Supports Art and Healing for TBI Survivors

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Painting from 2nd annual TBI Art Show

Composition #3 by Hillary Bassett-Ross

 

There is only one more day left of an art show at the Burke Museum (July 7 through July 11th), and we hope you get a chance to get down and see it. Short notice, we know. But if this is the first you’ve heard of “Recreating Me: Exploring and Healing Through Creative Expression”, then prepare to follow up next year. 2010 marks this 2nd annual benefit for survivors of traumatic brain injury, and Intrigue wants to spread the word about its importance.

Brain injury can alter not only the basic functioning of a person’s life, but their relationships and the way they express themselves. Frustration and grieving can be massive obstacles to the rebuilding process, and art seems to facilitate moving beyond these barriers for many survivors.

This show is a multi-media event put on by the University of Washington’s TBI Model System’s and the Brain Injury Association of Washington; showcasing the stories, sculpture, poetry, photography, painting, music and drawings by brain injured artists. Admission to the show will go to improve the lives of those living with TBI, but it just may improve your experience of life through a deeper understanding of these amazing survivors.

Night at the Aquarium

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Sea Otter

Sea otters are some cool critters, and we got to hang out with them at the Seattle Aquarium’s “Debuts and Discoveries”, June 24th, 2010. Additionally cool was that money raised from the event will be used for marine conservation projects.

This was a special event for wineries that are “new and emerging” (that is; less than three years old). There have been so many new and wonderful creators of wine in the Seattle area, that this event was a chance to see many of the up and coming sommeliers together (so as to make proper comparisons).

We lucked out and were seated next to our friends from Davenport Cellars and got to get creative with our wine-chocolate pairings. Our experiments were met with enthusiasm by people who visited our tables. It’s so cool to see our “audience” get excited about the same stuff we do (that’s us taking a bow! thank you, dear fans! we’d be nothing without you….really, we mean that.)