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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Teacher Appreciation
Great Teachers Make Great Schools
On National Teacher Day, take time to honor local educators and acknowledge the crucial role teachers play in making sure every student receives a quality education.
The next National Teacher Day will be celebrated on May 3, 2011.
Give Your Child's Teacher A gift to remember!
Have your Jars Customized!!!!
On National Teacher Day, take time to honor local educators and acknowledge the crucial role teachers play in making sure every student receives a quality education.
The next National Teacher Day will be celebrated on May 3, 2011.
Give Your Child's Teacher A gift to remember!
Have your Jars Customized!!!!
Friday, April 8, 2011
Recycle/Reuse/Upcycle
Three R's of CDs in the digital age: resell, reuse, recycle
by Ashley Cullins
April 07, 2011
Ashley Cullins/Medill
CDs can be used as easy, light-reflecting candleholders.
A cathode lamp is one of millions of ideas for projects made with used CDs.
Cullins -Etsy
"Kusudama is traditionally a Japanese art of paperfolding that results in a beautiful ball of flowers. This particular piece is a modern update of my own invention, utilizing a single hemisphere and repurposed CDs!" - Cybele
Cullins - Reckless
Ashley Cullins/Medill
Reckless Records sells used CDs starting at $1.99.
Related Links
CD Recycling Center of AmericaMRC Polymers, Inc.GreenDiskReckless RecordseHowEtsy - CybelesqueEtsy - Oddartist
CD sales slowed 12.8 percent from 326.2 million units in 2010 to 373.9 million in 2009, according to Billboard.com. Meanwhile digital track sales managed a one percent increase that same year.
Not everyone has given up on CDs. “I really like listening to an album from beginning to end, “ said Beth White, 30, a lawyer from Ravenswood. “My primary source of music is my iPod, but there are certain albums where I like to listen to the CD or the actual album.”
But what can digital music junkies do with their defunct disks? Reselling, reusing and recycling are all viable options.
Resell
Consumers can resell CDs in good condition to stores such as Reckless Records in Chicago. The store accepts all genres of music, but the disc must work and come in its case with the original artwork inserts.
Customers can bring in any volume of CDs and the staff will look at the items individually to determine a value on the spot, said Robbie Hamilton, floor manager of the store at 26 E. Madison St. The customer can choose to accept cash or store credit worth an additional 20 percent. So if Reckless decides your Backstreet Boys CD is worth $5, you can choose $5 cash or $6 store credit.
Hamilton said the digital revolution has hit sales of CDs harder than DVDs, while the business overall has remained consistent. The collection at Reckless includes not only new and used CDs, but also vinyl records, DVDs and even cassette tapes.
Reuse
CDs can be reincarnated into simple drink coasters and candleholders, or incredibly creative artwork and furniture. A quick Google search for “uses for CDs” generates about 80 million results.
Cybele, a single-named artist from Las Vegas, makes Japanese-style folded paper flowers out of maps and attaches them to CDs to create unique art. She has been making and selling them on Etsy.com for several months. “I saved all the AOL discs that our mailman used to deliver all the time,” she said. “I also use them for my Miniachair Tableaux.”
She recommended fellow Etsy user “oddartist” who melts down CDs and other media to create bowls and jewelry.
Lifehacker.com features a cathode lamp made from CDs. It’s “a mod bluish torch with which any geek would be proud to light his mother's basement,” according to the website.
EHow.com offers instructions for making driveway reflectors, sun-catchers, clocks, curtains and chandeliers.
Recycle
CDs and jewel cases aren’t generally accepted in community recycling programs, according to earth911.com. But consumers don’t have to choose between storing them indefinitely in a dusty attic and sending them to a landfill.
MRC Polymers Inc., 3535 W. 31st St., accepts "post-consumer" plastics, including CDs.
CD Recycling Centers of America in Salem, N.H., offers a mail-in option for consumers who can’t bring their used CDs to a local recycling center. The CDs, jewel cases and paper inserts must be separated and can be mailed in any quantity. There is no charge for the service, but the consumer pays shipping. The CDs are destroyed and new items are made from the recycled plastic resin.
GreenDisk considers CDs technotrash, along with VHS tapes, batteries, small electronics and hard drives, and also provides a recycling service for a fee. Consumers can mail in their used CDs and GreenDisk will erase the disks and rewrite and re-label them for redistribution. Fees are based on the content and weight of the items being recycled.
Next time you stub your toe on that box of long-unused CDs, consider reusing, reselling, or recycling them.
Featured Etsy Shops
Cyberlesque
Oddartist
by Ashley Cullins
April 07, 2011
Ashley Cullins/Medill
CDs can be used as easy, light-reflecting candleholders.
A cathode lamp is one of millions of ideas for projects made with used CDs.
Cullins -Etsy
"Kusudama is traditionally a Japanese art of paperfolding that results in a beautiful ball of flowers. This particular piece is a modern update of my own invention, utilizing a single hemisphere and repurposed CDs!" - Cybele
Cullins - Reckless
Ashley Cullins/Medill
Reckless Records sells used CDs starting at $1.99.
Related Links
CD Recycling Center of AmericaMRC Polymers, Inc.GreenDiskReckless RecordseHowEtsy - CybelesqueEtsy - Oddartist
CD sales slowed 12.8 percent from 326.2 million units in 2010 to 373.9 million in 2009, according to Billboard.com. Meanwhile digital track sales managed a one percent increase that same year.
Not everyone has given up on CDs. “I really like listening to an album from beginning to end, “ said Beth White, 30, a lawyer from Ravenswood. “My primary source of music is my iPod, but there are certain albums where I like to listen to the CD or the actual album.”
But what can digital music junkies do with their defunct disks? Reselling, reusing and recycling are all viable options.
Resell
Consumers can resell CDs in good condition to stores such as Reckless Records in Chicago. The store accepts all genres of music, but the disc must work and come in its case with the original artwork inserts.
Customers can bring in any volume of CDs and the staff will look at the items individually to determine a value on the spot, said Robbie Hamilton, floor manager of the store at 26 E. Madison St. The customer can choose to accept cash or store credit worth an additional 20 percent. So if Reckless decides your Backstreet Boys CD is worth $5, you can choose $5 cash or $6 store credit.
Hamilton said the digital revolution has hit sales of CDs harder than DVDs, while the business overall has remained consistent. The collection at Reckless includes not only new and used CDs, but also vinyl records, DVDs and even cassette tapes.
Reuse
CDs can be reincarnated into simple drink coasters and candleholders, or incredibly creative artwork and furniture. A quick Google search for “uses for CDs” generates about 80 million results.
Cybele, a single-named artist from Las Vegas, makes Japanese-style folded paper flowers out of maps and attaches them to CDs to create unique art. She has been making and selling them on Etsy.com for several months. “I saved all the AOL discs that our mailman used to deliver all the time,” she said. “I also use them for my Miniachair Tableaux.”
She recommended fellow Etsy user “oddartist” who melts down CDs and other media to create bowls and jewelry.
Lifehacker.com features a cathode lamp made from CDs. It’s “a mod bluish torch with which any geek would be proud to light his mother's basement,” according to the website.
EHow.com offers instructions for making driveway reflectors, sun-catchers, clocks, curtains and chandeliers.
Recycle
CDs and jewel cases aren’t generally accepted in community recycling programs, according to earth911.com. But consumers don’t have to choose between storing them indefinitely in a dusty attic and sending them to a landfill.
MRC Polymers Inc., 3535 W. 31st St., accepts "post-consumer" plastics, including CDs.
CD Recycling Centers of America in Salem, N.H., offers a mail-in option for consumers who can’t bring their used CDs to a local recycling center. The CDs, jewel cases and paper inserts must be separated and can be mailed in any quantity. There is no charge for the service, but the consumer pays shipping. The CDs are destroyed and new items are made from the recycled plastic resin.
GreenDisk considers CDs technotrash, along with VHS tapes, batteries, small electronics and hard drives, and also provides a recycling service for a fee. Consumers can mail in their used CDs and GreenDisk will erase the disks and rewrite and re-label them for redistribution. Fees are based on the content and weight of the items being recycled.
Next time you stub your toe on that box of long-unused CDs, consider reusing, reselling, or recycling them.
Featured Etsy Shops
Cyberlesque
Oddartist
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
CNBC Media Money
Empire
Published: Thursday, 31 Mar 2011 | 4:53 PM ET
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By: Julia Boorstin
CNBC Correspondent
Etsy is like eBay, but for a niche market — handmade goods. If you've not one of the site's eight million shoppers, imagine a hipster's DIY dream of handicrafts and art. Instead of buying something mass-produced from a giant corporation, you get to browse for a unique gem.
Etsy
Source: Etsy.com
Over 800,000 people sell their homemade products on the site, everything from jewelry and clothing, to furniture and music. There's a lot that makes Etsy different from eBay [EBAY 31.84 0.45 (+1.43%) ], beyond the fact that sellers set prices rather than hosting auctions. On Etsy every item has a story, and the company considers its sellers a community. You can search items not just by variety, but also by the location of the seller. So if you want, you can opt to support just your local Brooklyn or Silverlake handicrafts.
Etsy may be all about shoppers finding unique items, but it's also a serious business. Here's how it works: it's free to set up a "shop" on the site. It costs 20 cents to list an item and Etsy gets 3.5 percent of every transaction. And that's an increasingly large pie: sales topped $314 million last year and are growing fast.
Etsy's COO Adam Freed tells us this is just the beginning.
In addition to international growth the company is seeing growth in all of its categories. And the company is rolling out more features to make shopping more personal. And the more personal the experience, the more the company expects shoppers to buy.
Investors are on board: Etsy has raised over $50 million from top VCs including Accell Partners and Union Square Ventures. And individual investors are also hungry for a piece of the business. Etsy was the third most traded company on Second Market last quarter, behind only LinkedIn and Facebook.
Etsy's community has had its problems. Just this month it faced major outcry after buyers found that feedback posts, purchases and user profiles, and on occasion even real names, were made public. The company responded by tightening its privacy settings. COO Freed tells us that it takes its members (shoppers) privacy very seriously, and that the company made a fast feature change as soon as it realized there was an issue. Freed seems to understand that even with "communities" like Etsy's, people need to be able to maintain their privacy.
Published: Thursday, 31 Mar 2011 | 4:53 PM ET
Text Size
By: Julia Boorstin
CNBC Correspondent
Etsy is like eBay, but for a niche market — handmade goods. If you've not one of the site's eight million shoppers, imagine a hipster's DIY dream of handicrafts and art. Instead of buying something mass-produced from a giant corporation, you get to browse for a unique gem.
Etsy
Source: Etsy.com
Over 800,000 people sell their homemade products on the site, everything from jewelry and clothing, to furniture and music. There's a lot that makes Etsy different from eBay [EBAY 31.84 0.45 (+1.43%) ], beyond the fact that sellers set prices rather than hosting auctions. On Etsy every item has a story, and the company considers its sellers a community. You can search items not just by variety, but also by the location of the seller. So if you want, you can opt to support just your local Brooklyn or Silverlake handicrafts.
Etsy may be all about shoppers finding unique items, but it's also a serious business. Here's how it works: it's free to set up a "shop" on the site. It costs 20 cents to list an item and Etsy gets 3.5 percent of every transaction. And that's an increasingly large pie: sales topped $314 million last year and are growing fast.
Etsy's COO Adam Freed tells us this is just the beginning.
In addition to international growth the company is seeing growth in all of its categories. And the company is rolling out more features to make shopping more personal. And the more personal the experience, the more the company expects shoppers to buy.
Investors are on board: Etsy has raised over $50 million from top VCs including Accell Partners and Union Square Ventures. And individual investors are also hungry for a piece of the business. Etsy was the third most traded company on Second Market last quarter, behind only LinkedIn and Facebook.
Etsy's community has had its problems. Just this month it faced major outcry after buyers found that feedback posts, purchases and user profiles, and on occasion even real names, were made public. The company responded by tightening its privacy settings. COO Freed tells us that it takes its members (shoppers) privacy very seriously, and that the company made a fast feature change as soon as it realized there was an issue. Freed seems to understand that even with "communities" like Etsy's, people need to be able to maintain their privacy.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Etsy Photo Shoot Video
For a behind-the-scenes look at our big Etsy photo shoot and to learn more about Etsy power sellers, watch this video:
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Recycle/Reuse/Upcycle
The Blue cobalt dish was just completed. I turned a blue cobalt water bottle into a beautiful amazing dish. The dish is cleaned,sanitized,fused,slumped,etched and wire wrapped with beads. I LOVE it! Let me know what you think.
Recycle Glass
How do you reuse/upcycle different items in your everyday life?
I guess its time to stop buying new glass for my glass projects and start using what is already available. Glass does last forever. I might as well use it. My current project is cobalt glass water bottles and actually they can be used as vases with out even redesigning them.
Ive decided to slump and etch mine. My first one is slumped into a shallow bowl shape and decorated with beads and etch work! So Fun! I love the reusing the items!
I guess its time to stop buying new glass for my glass projects and start using what is already available. Glass does last forever. I might as well use it. My current project is cobalt glass water bottles and actually they can be used as vases with out even redesigning them.
Ive decided to slump and etch mine. My first one is slumped into a shallow bowl shape and decorated with beads and etch work! So Fun! I love the reusing the items!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Rock N' Roll Is Free
March 29, 2011 1:45 PM ET
Ben Harper is taking the title of his new single "Rock N' Roll Is Free" very literally by giving the track away for a limited time. The sunny, upbeat rocker is the first taste from his new album Give Till It's Gone, which will hit stores on May 17th, but for now the song is, as Harper sings, "free if you want it."Sunday, March 20, 2011
New Glass Product... Green Glass and the Lady bug
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| This Bird feeder is created out of a beautiful hand cut, green glass and hand cut red and black glass for the lady bug.It has yellow glass accents running through the piece. It sits on a 16" fabricated wrought iron stand. The glass it self is 6" in diameter and 4.5" deep. |
Crystal Phan's Jewelry from Etsy featured in the News
Congratulations to yet another Etsy seller in the News! Great article in
Wilkes Barre Times....Paper Heroes Crystals ETSY SHOP:
Crystal Phan's jewelry
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
New Glass Product!.......Fused Fish
The fish are finally finished. Remember I blogged about these fish a week ago. They were hand cut. Kiln fired.Here are before and after pictures.
And finally the finished product:
This suncatcher has a stainless steel chain to hang from.
It has 3 blue glass fish fused with fish hooks and red and white beads hanging by fishing line, from part of an up-cycled fishing pole! It can hang from a shepherds hook in the garden or in a window. It is 14" wide and 14" long + the chain.
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| Hand cut glass fish before the kiln! |
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| 10 hrs later...After the kiln! |
And finally the finished product:
This suncatcher has a stainless steel chain to hang from.
It has 3 blue glass fish fused with fish hooks and red and white beads hanging by fishing line, from part of an up-cycled fishing pole! It can hang from a shepherds hook in the garden or in a window. It is 14" wide and 14" long + the chain.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
New Glass Products!
The Daisy Bowl
This bowl has Daisies etched around it with yellow painted centers.
Very Cute and would make a great gift. it is 2'high and 4" in diameter. Many uses.
Red Pepper Bottles
The Red Pepper bottles are each etched and hand painted. They are about 6" tall. Great bottles for infusing Olive Oil.
Very Cute and would make a great gift. it is 2'high and 4" in diameter. Many uses.
The Red Pepper bottles are each etched and hand painted. They are about 6" tall. Great bottles for infusing Olive Oil.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Rockford woman turns trash into art - WREX.com – Rockford’s News Leader
Rockford woman turns trash into art - WREX.com – Rockford’s News Leader
"Lori's Recycled Chic"
Another Great Etsy shop featured in the news!
By: Rebecca Klopf
ROCKFORD (WREX) - You might think of things like empty pop bottles and old window panes as trash, but one women is turning them into art. The owner of "Lori's Recycled Chic" says if its an odd shape or has an interesting design, she can remake it into a piece you'll want in your home.
"I'm the original dumpster diver," says Lori Hart-Piper.
She started creating her work 13 years ago when she saw a bunch of old window's sitting on her neighbor's curb. She decided to paint them and turn them into Reverse Glass Paintings. From there, she started heading to thrift stores flea markets and garage sales to find other items she could turn into art.
But after awhile Hart-Piper stopped going to shows and selling her work, until last year. She was asked to bring some pieces to Rockford's City Market and she said it made her want to work again.
"That was an incredible experience. It went really well. I wasn't sure if that was the right venue for my art but there were a lot of artisans there," says Hart-Piper.
Now she creates things like mirrors from old TVs, photo frames from Polaroid cameras and clocks from old records. She even uses banana holders or old candle sticks for stands and old clocks for inside of the time pieces. But if that isn't green enough, she also uses old plastic bottles, metal and newspapers to make flower lamps.
"There's a lot of mass produced, lots of the same type of thing. And if you take something old that would that would end up in the garbage and make something new and beautiful out of it, you are not only keeping it out of the landfill but you have a unique, one of a kind piece that nobody else has," says Lori Hart-Piper.
You can see more of Hart-Piper's work at spring "ArtScene" next month. You can also find her on facebook at www.facebook.com/pages/LORIS-RECYCLED-CHIC or on Etsy.com under the shop name "Color Me Funky." The link for the Etsy page is on the side of this page.
Its so inspiring to read so many success stories.
"Lori's Recycled Chic"
Another Great Etsy shop featured in the news!
By: Rebecca Klopf
ROCKFORD (WREX) - You might think of things like empty pop bottles and old window panes as trash, but one women is turning them into art. The owner of "Lori's Recycled Chic" says if its an odd shape or has an interesting design, she can remake it into a piece you'll want in your home.
"I'm the original dumpster diver," says Lori Hart-Piper.
She started creating her work 13 years ago when she saw a bunch of old window's sitting on her neighbor's curb. She decided to paint them and turn them into Reverse Glass Paintings. From there, she started heading to thrift stores flea markets and garage sales to find other items she could turn into art.
But after awhile Hart-Piper stopped going to shows and selling her work, until last year. She was asked to bring some pieces to Rockford's City Market and she said it made her want to work again.
"That was an incredible experience. It went really well. I wasn't sure if that was the right venue for my art but there were a lot of artisans there," says Hart-Piper.
Now she creates things like mirrors from old TVs, photo frames from Polaroid cameras and clocks from old records. She even uses banana holders or old candle sticks for stands and old clocks for inside of the time pieces. But if that isn't green enough, she also uses old plastic bottles, metal and newspapers to make flower lamps.
"There's a lot of mass produced, lots of the same type of thing. And if you take something old that would that would end up in the garbage and make something new and beautiful out of it, you are not only keeping it out of the landfill but you have a unique, one of a kind piece that nobody else has," says Lori Hart-Piper.
You can see more of Hart-Piper's work at spring "ArtScene" next month. You can also find her on facebook at www.facebook.com/pages/LORIS-RECYCLED-CHIC or on Etsy.com under the shop name "Color Me Funky." The link for the Etsy page is on the side of this page.
Its so inspiring to read so many success stories.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
L.A. Times features Etsy shop
Gifts inspired by Lent (or Mardi Gras): Lust
Through Mardi Gras on March 8, we're giving you gift ideas, inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins, that you'll be regretting come Lent.
What would a piece on lust be without a mention of Hef? You can still get your hands on a copy of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy, a six-volume, limited-edition set (packaged in a Plexiglas case, $1,300 at Taschen.com) that includes a facsimile edition of the very first Playboy in 1953 with its Marilyn Monroe cover and centerfold -- arguably the sexiest one ever. Each numbered set is personally signed by Hef and comes with a 7-by-7-centimeter swatch of his certifiably worn signature silk pajamas.
And for those who are too shy to make the first move, how about a little pillow talk? Alexandra Ferguson fun felt pillows, made of recycled water bottles, establish house rules with slogans such as “Let’s Make Out” and “One Track Mind” (16 by 16 inches square with insert, from $89 at Etsy.com). The appliqués are cut by hand, so no two are alike –- a truly one-of-a-kind present.
With all the ho-hum of daily life, who doesn’t need a spritz of aphrodisiacs to heighten the mood? The boldly carnal Lust fragrance by Gorilla Perfume at Lush is laden with love notes — seductive jasmine hand-blended with ylang ylang, rose, vanilla and earthy sandalwood ($33 for 30 milliliter spray, $14 for 9 milliliter spray and $13 for solid perfume stick at Lushusa).Now that will give you something to take to confession.
-- Ingrid Schmidt
Photo: Alexandra Ferguson fun felt pillow. Credit: Etsy.com
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Wine glasses......Decorate your drinks
Choosing the right wine, the correct wine glass isnt difficult. Always have large variety on hand. no two palettes are alike But keep this in mind:
Red wine glasses
The Bowl: Wider
The bigger flavors in reds need to spread out. The wider bowl also lets in more air, which releases bold aromas and flavors.
The bigger flavors in reds need to spread out. The wider bowl also lets in more air, which releases bold aromas and flavors.
The Opening: Wider
Dip your nose into the wider bowl to get a load of more complex aromas.
Dip your nose into the wider bowl to get a load of more complex aromas.
Tip: When pouring wines, keep the wine level to the lower one-third the glass. This leaves lots of air and swirl room, both of which enhance the enjoyment of your wines.
BIG REDS (Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz):
Get a big bowl and a big opening.
Get a big bowl and a big opening.
SOFT REDS (Pinot Noir, Merlot):
Get a big bowl that narrows a tinge at the opening.
Get a big bowl that narrows a tinge at the opening.
White wine glasses
The Bowl: Narrower
The smaller capacity helps keep temperatures cool longer.
The smaller capacity helps keep temperatures cool longer.
The Opening: Narrower
The lighter aromas waft well in a narrower glass.
The lighter aromas waft well in a narrower glass.
SPIRITED WHITES (Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Chardonnay):
Get a bowl with a little room that narrows slightly at the opening.
Get a bowl with a little room that narrows slightly at the opening.
DELICATE WHITES (Riesling, Pinot Gris, Gewurztiminer):
Get a narrow bowl and a narrow opening.
Get a narrow bowl and a narrow opening.
| Chinese | Choose slightly sweet or off-dry wines. Rosès and Gewürztraminers are the best, followed by Rieslings and Chenin Blancs. With Tea or Peking duck, try Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot Noir and Zinfandel. |
| Japanese | Choose very cold, off-dry, fruity white wines or any sparkling wine. |
| Thai | Rosé is the best choice but Rieslings can be a good bet. Gewürztraminer is a risky choice, can be good or bad. |
| Vietnamese | Best advice is to choose very cold, fruity, slightly sweet Rosés and Gewürztraminers. |
| Mexican | Very cold, fruity, full-bodied Sauvignon Blancs and Rosés work well. Chili heat will drown Rieslings and Gewürztraminers. Gamays and Pinot Noirs perform well, too. |
| Indian | Choose full-bodied sparking wines and reds such as Merlots and Zinfandels. Drier, full-bodied Rosés work well also. |
| Middle Eastern | Fruity wines, both red and white, work well. Choose the drier Rosès and Rieslings. |
| Barbeque | Wines need to be both fruity and rich, Zinfandel or Rosè make good choices. Try Sauvignon Blancs with seafood. |
| Fried Foods | Sparkling wines are terrific. Any crisp, dry, fruity wine, white or red, works well too. |
| Chardonnay:Usually a medium to full-bodied, dry wine. | Poultry and game birds, veal and pork, rabbit fish and pasta preparations which feature cream and/or butter, mushrooms. |
| Sauvignon Blanc (Fumé Blanc):Medium to light-bodied and dry. | First courses, seafood, ethnic dishes—pastas, curries, salsas, spicy sausages, vegetable dishes, luncheon salads, olive-oil based dishes, tomato sauces, goat cheese. |
| Chenin Blanc:Light to medium-bodied, normally off-dry to semi-sweet. | Braised Chicken, sushi and other Oriental dishes, poultry, pork. |
| Gewürztraminer:Light to medium body, usually semi-sweet, occasionally off-dry. | Spicy cuisines such as Chinese, Mexican, and Indian, mild sausages, fruit salad. |
| Riesling (Johannisberg Riesling, White Riesling):Light to medium bodied, semi-sweet to off-dry. | Crabmeat, appetizers and finger foods, pork, salads. |
| Pink Wines (Rosé, White Zinfandel, Cabernet Blanc, Blush, Blanc de Noirs):Vary in color and sweetness. Choose the most current vintage. | Best with smoked foods, quiche, pork and ham,Mexican and Thai food. Can be served with all food. | |
| Sparkling Wines/Champagnes (méthode champenoise / fermented in the bottle):Crisp and bubbly. | Brut:Dry. Traditionally a blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. | Appetizers and first courses, fruits and nuts. Fuller bodied variations go well with any fish and chicken. |
| Blanc de Noir:More fruity than brut, but still dry. | Appetizers | , with lunch, desserts. |
| Blanc de Blancs:More delicate than brut. | Caviar. Anytime. | |
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