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I've been hosting with wine for the past 20 years and I'm sharing all my best tips so you can enjoy

07/30/2025

This photo is from around 1998 when we first started dating. Now we are 21 years married! Love you more than ever ❤️❤️❤️

He proposed with Krug, we drank DP on our wedding night and celebrated many anniversaries with Jacques Selosse when I bought it at a steal…waiting to see what we open when he returns home. 🥂

04/06/2025

Spring has sprung in our market! Ramp risotto with morel mushrooms and sea scallops called for - a village level old vine bottling from 2019, Paul Nicole, hit the spot. As I taught my kids, the marine fossils that line the soil in Chablis give the wine a chalky quality and make the wine distinct. Geography, geology, botany - science is cool!

04/04/2025

I loved the wine & cheese tasting I did last night for The best part of my job is meeting awesome people 🥂🥂🥂

We tasted four wines alongside a variety of cheeses - chèvre, piave, aged cheddar and a simple blue. As always, people varied in their favorites. A standout for me was the goat cheese, dried apricot and Menetou Salon (think baby Sancerre) and the Malbec by the brilliant with dark chocolate pretzels, yummmmmmmm

02/14/2025

Happy🤎day!! I hosted another tasting last night with the fabulous exotic truffles. I love the savory flavors in the box such as ginger, wasabi, Hungarian paprika, and toasted curry powder that lend to rich discussions about wine & food pairings.

Last night I paired this with the family estate Ripasso. is a beautiful example of indigenous grapes made in a way to complement the spice laden cuisine that comes through the port of . The wine goes through a second fermentation on the skins of the dried grapes, a wine that sells for multiples more.

So with the ripasso, you get the complexity, dried fruit, cocoa, cinnamon, dried roses and more for a wine that is still affordable. And it’s a beauty with chocolate truffles.

Cheers!

10/31/2024

Thank you Mona, for a warm and celebratory start to ✨❤️

The highlight was getting to meet and vibe with of 🥰 we have brilliant plans in the works 💥✨🪔

happy to be your date all the nights

- sooooo thrilled to have discovered you

08/20/2024

Ooohhh new awesome pairing diiscovery: pear cider from Normandy and fresh figs from

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The beach doesn’t hurt either! 🌊

08/17/2024

Heading to the beach and here’s my plan:
2021 Granbazan Albariño - Ambar
2021 Bordelet Poiré
2018 Mon Birone Barbera d’Alba
2018 Chablis Les Clos (Adrien Besson)
2008 Champagne Salmon
2021 Buchegger Holzgasse Grüner
Tinkerman’s Citrus Supreme Gin 4.2

Refreshing, food-friendly (meals are already planned), and all are enjoyable beachside.

I’m also bringing some wine accessories the Airbnb won’t have ->swipe to see and for more details on brands or products - ask in the comments!

06/19/2024

Let’s celebrate 🥂

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Juneteenth is here 🤎and we want to share some history, reminders, and lessons with ya’ll.

📖 Sources:
Juneteenth: The History of a Holiday - The New York Times

Five Myths about Juneteenth - The Washington Post

The Joys and Struggle of Juneteenth - The Washington Post

What is Juneteenth? - History

Thirteenth Amendment Ends Slavery But Makes Way for a Different Kind - New Jersey State Bar Foundation

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865) - National Archives

: On February 1, 1865, Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - California African American Museum

The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth - National Museum of African American History and Culture

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06/16/2024

Caught! Paws off the Humboldt Fog!!!

04/27/2024

It is a Seattle kind of night. I’m remembering an awesome dinner circa 2009 with where the farm’s produce nourished our souls.

So, tonight I made halibut in carrot-cilantro broth over spinach, barley and lentils. In honor of our old home, I also opened a bottle recently discovered from my Seattle stash - a beautiful .hexamer Riesling from 2007, “Quarzit” named for the soils so rich in minerality. The wine had the right amount of ripe fruit, acidity and fruit concentration to match the ginger, carrot, cilantro punchy flavors in this dish. Thank you for this 👍🏽👍🏽 import

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03/02/2024

Omg these bubbles are blowing my mind!! 84% Pinot Noir, 16% Chard, two years on the lees give it a buttery popcorn vibe with elegance. Could drink this all my life. Thank you for this find! Now I need more…

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11/22/2023

Have I mentioned the raffle prize?? If you can’t attend the upcoming Hope for Ayoni wine tasting, make sure you buy a raffle ticket…or three. These kinds of bottles don’t come along often.

Champagne Salon was the first of our age to be made with fruit all from one village, at a time when this singular focus made it an oddity and soon an obsession. This is the only wine that the Champagne house makes, and they only make it in exceptional vintages.

1996 was an exceptional vintage. Wine magazine Decanter awarded the ’96 Salon a perfect 100-point score, calling it, “A warm, even hot, spring with no real change during the summer, conditions that allowed the grapes to gorge themselves on sugar while preserving good acidity…Hazelnut, spices, flowers form part of the remarkable aromatic complexity of this Champagne that also has also remarkable depth of character. Perhaps the most impressive Salon of the tasting. On the palate, a sensation of flesh and opulence, but also the telltale precision and erect backbone of racy acidity, and an enthralling finish ending on a refreshing note of salinity. A truly great Salon that leaves one speechless. (YC)”

If you’ve never tasted aged Champagne, you are in for a treat. In fact, Salon is known for its longevity and needs time to taste its best. I opened a bottle recently and was blown away – its salinity, richness and long-lasting finish are unparalleled and if you are an investor, this will continue to appreciate and taste better with further age.

Expert says, “Due to its rarity and cost, Salon remains prohibitive for many, yet the opportunity to taste a Salon in maturity is one of the great experiences of Champagne.”

This bottle is valued at $1600. It has been in professional storage until a month ago when I brought it home to cellar conditions.

Think this wine is out of your league? Not today! You can buy raffle tickets for $50 each. Buy as many as you like with the link in my bio. If you win, I’ll ship it to a continental US location of your choice. The proceeds go entirely to that aims to help people like my daughter Ayoni live a full life.

➡️swipe for 📷 from my visit to Salon in 2006

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I'm Dini Rao, I've been hosting people for over 20 years. Truly, I hosted my first dinner and cooking party while I was in high school! I don’t think I served wine then... I’ve found that hosting parties, dinners, and gatherings in my home has been the richest way to build meaningful relationships with people.

In talking to people, I realized that most people want to host more often but life gets busy, hosting seems like a monumental effort and there are fears that come up, especially when serving wine. I decided to use my hostess-ing, wine and people skills to help.

My videos and page are meant to help people who love to host, want to build more meaningful friendships and want to add more joy to their lives. Is that you?

If so, I will be sharing all my best tips and insights to help you host with ease, confidence and of course...wine.