The Merlot’s we’ll be sampling are starting to arrive for the #WaMerlot tweet-up- will you be there? Here’s the 2nd-batch we just got in:

The first three Merlot’s have arrived here at WineFoot for the upcoming #WaMerlot Tweet-up to be held on March 25th. Best of all? You too can participate, in fact we’d love to see you there!

Here we have a Ventoso Merlot from Chandler Reach as well as two current Merlot’s from L’Ecole No 41: their 2007 Columbia Valley Merlot and one from Seven Hills Vineyard.

As a father of five kids, this video really brings it all home – thank you Jamie Oliver:

Josh Wade, from DrinkNectar.com, has organized an upcoming Live tasting with a number of Washington State Merlot producers. This will be a live event via Twitter (#WAMerlot) – you can go to this site to sign up. They also have links to online retailers who sell the Merlot’s to be tasted.

The Seattle Wine Gal also has a great write-up on this event as well.

A fan of WineFoot submitted this poem to share with all of you – to use for you significant other. Just make sure you have plenty of good wine or Champagne to go along with it.

Love today and today will love you

Stars are falling like rain
My hand is grasping the moon
I close my eyes to look again
The sun comes up again, so soon

Still stars are falling around me
Yet now I am swimming in the sea
Swells of warmth
Carress my skin
I feel an eruption of love within

It pulsates and consumes me
Then errupts with bright light
“How has the source found me? &
What did I do so right?”

Beautiful song in my mind
I close my eyes again to find…
Climbing a mountain
Almost to its peak
My body is strength
And words of love do I speak

I look behind me
Clearly I see my path
All the twists and turns
Taking notice of the one to wrath

I close my eyes to look ahead…
Undeniable love to me I’m led

I breath in love
And see stars falling like rain
My arms outstetched
It is all I can obtain

It is immeasurable and infinite
It is beauty and lust
It is truth and trust
My lips taste sweet

I open ..my eyes – to see
This new world before me
Within my being a new beat

Its hard to explain
Like stars falling as rain
Such elation,.. So glorious to feel
When you are truly you — and this is really real.

By Chelsea Chase

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Some of you who follow me on Facebook know that I’ve auditioned for an upcoming cooking show called MasterChef. In this show, Gordon Ramsay mentors amateur chef participants in order to make them a “Master Chef”. I’ll keep you all posted and thanks for your support!

A friend of WineFoot, Aimee Rhea, is a Dove Chocolatier and has let us know of their current Valentine’s Day promo which should be a no-brainer gift for that special someone to pair with their favorite wines. For pricing and ordering information, you can email her at: chocolateisyummy@insightbb.com