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Prosecco Night in : 10 foods for your snack board
The girls are coming round and you’ve got the Prosecco in the fridge – what’s the easiest thing to serve? A delve-in, easy-to -prepare, snack board that looks great and takes only a few minutes to prepare. With Prosecco you’ll want to go easy on the flavours, opting for foods that are not too overpowering. The…
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Port Pairings : From Savoury to Sweet
Hailing from the Douro Valley in Portugal, Ports are made from still wine fortified with brandy, a practice that was used to make them more stable for the long sea-crossings to England, historically the main market for Port. Port comes in many different styles, making it super versatile for food pairings although the more complex…
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5 Reasons why Sparkling wines are the easiest to pair with food
Sparkling wines are super versatile. More than any other style of wine. Not quite sure which wine to serve with the dish you’re preparing? When in doubt: opt for a sparkling wine – it’s hard to go wrong. It may not be 100% true of course, that may be down to taste (although some DO swear by…
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Seven Wineries to visit in Chianti
If you’re heading to the land of the Black Rooster aka Chianti, the gorgesous area between Florence and Siena, you’ll want to make sure you have time for some wine-tasting! With over 300 wineries that grow grapes and bottle wine, it’s hard to choose but to help you, here is my pick of 7 must-see…
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What Wine to Pair with Indian Food?
Craving an Indian curry, but not sure what wine to drink with it? From a Korma to a Saag paneer, our quick guide to pairing wine with Indian dishes has got you covered. Before we start : Pointers on how to pair Indian food… First off: there’s a huge range of flavours and ingredients in Indian…
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5 Easy Ways to chill Wine
Just realised you need to chill your wine ready for your online wine tasting? That it’s been sitting on the kitchen counter and not in the fridge? No stress! Here we have a few ways to chill wine (some very fast!). Take a look at the quick guide to the ideal wine temperature where we cover why…
Get Comfy with Wine
A wine Blog and Community of Women who love Wine
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This is how it all started…
I started working in the wine industry completely by fluke back in January 2004. At that time I received a call for an interview for a job organising wine events in China. That job opened up my eyes to wine and a couple of months later I was in the world’s largest wine exhibition with a group of wine lovers finding myself saying “I know nothing about wine, I can’t tell you what I’m smelling” but they gave me a few tips and taught me that a little bit of knowledge could get me a long way to understanding more about the fascinating world of wine.
A couple of year’s later and I had passed my WSET levels 2 and 3 as well as the Italian Sommelier Association qualification however I still preferred to stay in the background. Surrounded by so many of the world’s leading press and experts for my day job, I was always in awe of how much they knew and there was to know about wine.
A decade or so later we were thrown into the pandemic and within a week of the lockdown being in place, I’d set up Quaranvino, the first online wine dinners bringing wine producers together with wine lovers for online dinners during those dark times. It was then that I realised that I loved bridging the gap between the people who make wine and the people who drink it, helping to put wines and regions in contexts and giving wine drinkers those nuggets of knowledge for them to understand the world of the wine producers.
Get Comfy with Wine is a continuation of that. In May 2023 I launched a facebook community mainly to keep in contact with the amazing women I’d met during those Quaranvino days but also to share tips and stories with women around the world who enjoy drinking wine.
On this website you’ll find a few of my ideas and experiences along with articles which were originally published on the Quaranvino website years ago. I’ll update it as I go along with news of what is going on in the community, wineries I meet and wines I love. I’m a big believer that wine is meant to be shared and I thank you for being here for the ride.
Faye X
Faye Cardwell
Wine Lover & Wine Events organiser