Valentine's Chocolate

I've been working on Valentine's Day chocolates in the shop and have some pictures for you.This mostly 72% dark chocolate heart box is filled with small hearts in dark chocolate, milk chocolate and lemon lavender white chocolate, totaling a pound of chocolate, this will keep someone very happy. It will be closed with a ribbon and nestled in a box for giving to someone special.

Additionally we have a variety of hearts that you can buy individually or in small gift bags. The small hearts are 72% dark chocolate, 41% milk chocolate and our lemon lavender white chocolate and will come in mixed bags of 6. The large ones are (going clockwise from the white) Lemon Lavender White Chocolate, Toasted hazelnut & Tart cherry in 72% Dark Chocolate, Crystallized ginger and dark chocolate, 41% milk chocolate, and a Classic Almond, are sold singly.

Happy Valentine's Day

Producer of the Week

We are producers of the week at the Middlebury Natural Food Co-op from Fedruary 10th to the 16th. You can read about us on page 8 & 9 of their monthly newsletter. We will be doing a demo on February 10th from noon-2, come and enjoy sampling some of our chocolates. Along with the barks and turtles that we always sell at the co-op we have included some special hearts.

Shelburne Vineyard Wine and Food Festival

Shelburne Vineyard to Host Wine and Food Festival to Benefit Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf

Shelburne Vineyard's Second Annual Autumn Wine and Food Festival will happen on Saturday, November 13 at their Shelburne Road Winery and Tasting Room. As they did last year, the Vineyard will combine the Festival with a Fundraiser and Food Drive for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. Last year's event resulted in raising over $400 and 480 pounds of non-perishable food donations and the Vineyard hopes to top that amount with this year's Festival.

Scheduled from 11 AM to 5 PM, the event will celebrate the end of harvest and the beginning of the holiday season by bringing together producers of some of Vermont's most delectable specialty foods and wines. With free tasting of Shelburne Vineyard wines as well as wines from Eden Ice Cider and Artesano Mead and sampling of tasty specialties to the notes of live jazz with Joe Capps and Chris Peterman, visitors can sample and plan their holiday meals and gift giving choices. Food sampling will include delicacies like Cavendish Quail and Vermont Smoke and Cure meats, stuffing from Olivia's, sumptuous cheeses from VT Creamery, Shelburne Farms and Fat Toad Farm, fresh breads from Red Hen and Bread and Butter Farm, salads and spreads from Shelburne Kitchen, and finish with sweets from Daily Chocolate and caramel sauces from Fat Toad.

Tasting and Sampling will be free, and all the participating producers will also have products available for sale so visitors can get a head start on holiday shopping. Shelburne Vineyard is asking that those who attend bring along a donation of non-perishable food items to benefit the Food Shelf, and there will be a raffle of savory treats donated by the vendors the proceeds of which will also benefit the Food Shelf. Shelburne Vineyard is located at 6308 Shelburne Road, Shelburne VT 05482 between the Shelburne Museum and Vermont Teddy Bear. For more information link to our website at www.shelburnevineyard.com or visit us on Facebook.