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Holiday Message: Your Support Helped Us Celebrate All Year Long
Friends and colleagues like to tease me about my trusty paper calendar and the pencils I write with. (No, they’re not just for taking...
Deb
Dec 7, 20223 min read
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Serious Sips and Eats: Around Italy in 20 Days with Deb and Mike
I’ve been to Italy six times – most recently leading a group of 19 customers on a 20-day food and wine tour through Venice, the...
Deb
Oct 28, 20225 min read
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Knowledgeable, Well-Managed, Satisfying: Praise for Classes, Events at Palate Partners
From Casual Friday tastings to private events and formal certification courses, students give high marks to Palate Partners School of...
Palate Partners
Oct 20, 20222 min read
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Beyond Salami Roses: Charcuterie is the art of sharing something special
Everywhere you look these days, from real life brunches and bridal showers to social media memes and video how-tos, there’s charcuterie....
Palate Partners
Sep 27, 20222 min read
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Upcoming Class Highlights Rising Popularity of Sake
Call it the silver lining of the pandemic – the desire to learn, make and try new things. Cooking and baking. Studying a language. Taking...
Palate Partners
Aug 18, 20222 min read
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Delivering Wine to Pittsburgh's Best Restaurants
If you’ve sampled the vibrant, seasonal menu and outstanding wine list at Eleven in the Strip District, the light, Mediterranean inspired...
Palate Partners
Jul 27, 20222 min read
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Educating Pittsburgh’s Food and Beverage Influencers
Palate Partners School of Wine & Spirits and Dreadnought Wines in Lower Lawrenceville not only supply the region’s best restaurants with...
Palate Partners
Jun 9, 20223 min read
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Wine and Baseball: A Winning Strategy
The picture is a baseball glove holding a bottle of red wine. How could this not catch my attention? I like baseball. And wine. So it...
Deb
Apr 8, 20224 min read
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Dreadnought Wines Celebrates 42 Years
What started as a small family business 42 years ago, has evolved into one of Pittsburgh’s most respected distributors of specialty wine...
Palate Partners
Mar 30, 20224 min read
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Sake Step by Step: New Intro Course Builds Broader Appreciation
Making Sake as easy to enjoy as a glass of wine or beer or a sip of Scotch is something we aspire to achieve at Dreadnought Wines and...
Deb
Mar 14, 20223 min read
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Shattering the Glass Ceiling in Wine & Spirits: Deb Goes 3 for 3 in WSET
Only three women in North America have achieved all WSET Level 3 Awards for knowledge of wine, spirits and sake. WSET (Wine & Spirit...
Palate Partners
Mar 7, 20222 min read
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Wines That Are Blends
Blends are trendy then they aren’t and then they come back into liking. This happens with all kinds of things in life, like the length of...
Deb
Feb 22, 20223 min read
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Vine Needs
It all starts with the vine. People often tell us how they want to buy and own a winery. I always say the same thing in response “So,...
Deb
Jan 31, 20222 min read
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WSET in Pittsburgh! Wine & Spirits Education has never been better!
Palate Partners School of Wine & Spirits are big supporters of WSET and we're ready to help you achieve your Wine, Spirits, and Sake...
Palate Partners
Sep 22, 20212 min read
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Rare and Limited Release Spirits with Raj Sabharwal
Join the team at Palate Partners and Dreadnought Wines on July 26th as we host celebrated Spirits Expert Raj Sabharwal for a fun and...
Palate Partners
Jul 1, 20213 min read
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GLASSWARE: What you really "need"
Sippers! GLASSWARE! Oh boy, I can see your eyes rolling already. Mine are after just reading an article about glassware where they...
Deb
Jun 28, 20212 min read
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WSET Level 3 in Sake is Here! Fall 2021
About this Course Offering This course will start with a two-week online pre-study program. This program will review much of the...
Palate Partners
Jun 24, 20213 min read
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Italian Wine Classes are BACK!
After a long year, we have finally been able to reschedule some of our Italian classes from 2020! And great news - there is still room...
Palate Partners
Jun 24, 20212 min read
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Jamison Farms & Dreadnought Wines together again for their Annual Lamb & Wine Dinner!
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! We feel so honored and are beyond lucky that Jamison Farms is teaming up with us once again for our annual Lamb &...
Palate Partners
Jun 3, 20211 min read
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Wine & Grilling: The Perfect Private Event for Summer
Wine & Grilling is back, baby! Last summer we were not able to offer Palate Partners’ most popular event, but we're back for 2021 and...
Palate Partners
Jun 2, 20212 min read
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