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Wine Tasting

  • Special Event
  • 29 photos
  • The table gathers as the tasting begins.
  • The dessert table dressed for the tasting: tea lights, patterned plates and a crowned pink bird presiding.
  • A round table set and waiting, with gold chairs, a floral centerpiece and printed cards at every place.
  • Bread and cheese being sliced in the kitchen before guests arrive.
  • A caviar-topped cheese torte ringed with crackers, its topper toasting 100 years.
  • Four guests with the first pours of rosé and white at a tasting table.
  • The glass dining table set for the tasting beneath a crystal chandelier.
  • A tasting table in gold by the lanai windows, welcome cards at each place.
  • Three members compare notes between tastings.
  • Three friends pause for a photo between pours.
  • Cupcakes, sliders and fresh citrus laid out on the kitchen island.
  • Two guests by the wine display in the kitchen.
  • Three guests arm in arm in the sunlit living room.
  • A collector’s dollhouse of twelve furnished miniature rooms, each lit from within.
  • Five guests under the foyer chandelier as the afternoon gets going.
  • Two guests arm in arm in the hallway gallery.
  • A warm welcome by the dining room window.
  • Two members beside a hand-painted Victorian dollhouse.
  • A handcrafted Victorian dollhouse at home among the miniatures collection.
  • A miniature circus under glass, big top and all.
  • A lighted cabinet of miniature gallery rooms, a tiny museum shelf by shelf.
  • A miniature wedding on the lawn of a blue Victorian dollhouse, classic convertible included.
  • Two guests in the kitchen, the afternoon’s bottles lined up behind them.
  • A toast across the gold table as the tasting gets under way.
  • Our hosts for the afternoon.
  • A full table late in the afternoon, red wine in the glasses.
  • Our wine presenter mid-story, bottle in hand.
  • Two Cavalier King Charles spaniels found a lap for the afternoon.
  • Admiring a miniature kitchen scene, lit inside its hinged display case.

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