Available Now: HALLOWEEN Cheeseboards!

3 of our spookiest cheeses, garnished with creepy crawly gummy candies. Available through 10/31!

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Halloween Cheeseboard
Pumpkin pie

Thanksgiving Menu Live Now!

Free range turkeys, freshly baked pies, festive cheeses, and more!

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Pre-Order Your Rush Creek Reserve!

Rich, creamy, spoonable, Rush Creek from Uplands Cheese is an autumn classic. It’s show-stopping, it’s delicious, you need it on your holiday table.

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Rush Creek surrounded by cornichons, speck and crostini, beside a bottle of bubbles

Coming Soon: BAKERY Counter & ESPRESSO Bar!

Coming winter 2027 - stay tuned for updates!

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Vineyard on a slope along a river in Eastern Spain

Wines of Iberia Pt. 3: The País Vasco, La Rioja, & Beyond

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Oct 21
Hands spreading sauce on a pizza

Pizza Making

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Nov 2
Sailboat on the Douro

From Douro, With Love: A Port Tasting Experience

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Nov 3
Colorful houses lining a river in Alsace

F44 Wine Dinners: Alsace with Sophie Schaal

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Nov 4
Pouring champagne into 12 flutes

A Night of Champagne with Benoît Marguet

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Nov 9
Man looking closely at grape vines in a vineyard

Film Screening with Wine: The Terriorist

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Nov 13
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Bubbles for the Holidays

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Nov 17
Round cheeseboard

Cheeses for the Holidays

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Nov 18
Beaujolais Vineyard

The Wines of Beaujolais: Cru Cru Cachoo

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Nov 19
Pacific Northwest vineyard

Wines of the Pacific Northwest

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Dec 3
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Bubbles for the Holidays

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Dec 15
Round cheeseboard

Cheeses for the Holidays

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Dec 16
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WINE of the
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CHEESE of the
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CLUB 44

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Founded in the 1950s as a small downtown bottle shop, France 44 has grown over three generations of the Anderson family into a Minneapolis destination for wine, spirits, cheese, whole animal butchery, and education.

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Rendering of new bakery counter

So, Why a Bakery?

tied up beef tenderloin sitting on a sheet tray on a bed of thyme

Contemplating Beef Tenderloin

France 44

The Champagne Whisperer

collection of blue cheeses

The Cheesecutter: Blue Cheese

pork chops in a pan with apples and onions

Cook Like a Cheesemonger: Apple Onion Porkchops

Michelle leaning over a wheel of Cravero Parmigiano Reggiano

Ask Michelle Volume III: What’s the Deal with Raw Milk and Raw Milk Cheese?