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Once the games and the show begin with wines poured, Carrie zips around the tables chatting, serving and encouraging an exchange of our first foodie experiences. I didn’t play in to the table games as I found the meal festive and playful enough for my taste.

You can opt for a private table or go Euro style where you are seated with strangers. I took my best friend’s Mom, a 65-year-old newlywed, anxious to show off her new fresh tattoo, her first. We sat with a witty British couple, a local Washington couple, an angular architect and tech exec and another duo, a lovely Aussie, an ex singer-dancer who met and married her military man overseas. We were a spirited crew, but the star by far, was the meal, which took nine well-deserved bows.

The evening and each course have a theme. Our evening’s theme was American Harvest. Our first course, Saying Thanks in Small Ways, a trio of Dungeness Crab Cakes and Trout Roe, Poached Foie Gras with Vanilla Bean Gastrique and Sunchoke Panna Cotta with Montana Paddlefish Caviar paired with a Willamette Valley Argyle Brut was just the beginning. Sound Oyster & Salsify Chowder with an Okanagan Valley Sauvignon Blanc and Applewood –Roasted Black Cod with a Dundee Hills Pinot Gris (OR) were the performances that followed.


wines at herbfarm

The wines were free flowing and if you got attached to one, you could hold on to it demanding an encore. Your cup and your joy will runneth over with continued requests, which I was guilty of, more than once. Michael the sommelier was busy bragging between pours that he has the best job in the world. One can’t argue, as he is privy to obscure wines in a cellar containing over 26,000 bottles.