The Florida Wine Girls, also known as Karen and Dee met while working part-time in the Cosmetic Industry in a Major Retail Chain. That was over 20 years ago and we have remained best friends, with and without the consumption of wine! So, on with the rest of this exciting saga. We would do major cosmetic events requiring us to be on our feet for sometimes over 8 hours, barely taking breaks for a sip of water, a morsel of food or barely a potty break! Needless to say, by the end of the long day we wanted a bit of Vino to ease our aching feet, legs and minds! Just so you know, We work with people All day long and where we live some of them can be very needy indeed! By the way, we live in beautiful, sunny, glorious South Florida but we host a tough crowd sometimes in the beauty industry and even the sun and fun of South Florida it's not always easy. Back to the wine story! Ok, we are at that point in the evening, tired from our Arduous day of beauty, looking for a wine bar where we could simply have a Great glass or 3 of a terrific wine and some fabulous cheeses. Our quest began. Some of the places we ventured into had a phenomenal selection of wines, but nary a cheese platter to be had! WHat kind of place would go to the trouble of creating a magnificent wine selection and not do the same with cheeses to compliment the wines? I mean, really, we love cheese like we love wine and we REALLY love Wine, so enough said. We found time and time again, no great cheeses to pair with our wine or worse yet, we found places that had really mediocre wines to choose from and also no cheeses! We just couldn't get the two to commingle to save our lives! Fast forward to this year and we finally found the perfect place, great wines, a stupendous, over the top cheese platter that you could create from a list of over a dozen hard, semi soft and soft cheeses from around the world. Accompanied by the best Assortment of breads and baked crackers you could imagine. The presentation was BEYOND so with great wine, great cheese and a great presentation it was blissful! You would choose 1 cheese for $5 and 3 or more cheeses it was only $3 a cheese so we were All set and we finally found our little bright spot At the end of our long day where we could do what we do really well, drink and eat! Well, you'll never guess what happened! Hmm, maybe you can guess, but you will have to wait for the next post to see if you are right... Always Remember, our mantra has always been, and will always be, STEMS UP!
Yours Truly, Florida Wine Girls
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