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Valentine's Day Menu LIVE NOW!

Pre-order your Valentine’s Day goodies today! On the menu this year: dinner for two, house-baked chocolate cake, caviar, and more sweets to your Valentine’s Day extra special and romantic.

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Join us for a COOKING or WINE CLASS

Winter classes are live now; check out our schedule!

Upcoming Classes
ingredients and instructions for pizza making class
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3 New WINE of the MONTH Clubs!

Sign up today to receive your first box in February!

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Intro to Sourdough Baking

Baking Class

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Jan 31
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Cheese 101

Cheese Class

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Feb 4
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Melty Cheese Party Pop-Up

Pop-Up Event

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Feb 6
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Chocolate Tasting Date Night: Chocolate is for Lovers

Chocolate Class

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Feb 10
Colorful farfale

That’s Amore!: Designer Pasta Making Date Night

Cooking Class

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Feb 11
pouring an espresso martini

Cocktail Making Date Night!: Couples Who Cocktail

Spirits Class

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Feb 12
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Flavor Fundamentals

Cooking Class

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Feb 16
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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: A Fortified Wine Tasting Experience

Wine Class

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Feb 17
hand pulled noodles

Biang Biang Blowout: Hand Pulled Noodle Making

Cooking Class

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Feb 18
french vineyard

Wines of France Part 2: Burgundy, Beaujolais, & Beyond

Wine Class

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Feb 19
Apple turnovers

Baking Basics: Rough Puff Pastry

Baking Class

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Feb 21
Hands spreading sauce on a pizza

Pizza Making!

Cooking Class

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Feb 25
pouring champagne

Tasting the Stars: The World of Sparkling Wines

Wine Class

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Feb 26
orchiette

Hand-Shaped Pasta Making

Cooking Class

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Mar 2
gnocchi

Gnocchi Making

Cooking Class

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Mar 3
Bunches of black grapes

God Forsaken Grapes and Their Relations

Wine Class

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Mar 5
Plate of ravioli

Stuffed Pasta Making

Cooking Class

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Mar 10
Alpine mountains

The Mountains are Calling: Alpine Wine Extravaganza

Wine Class

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Mar 12
stack of soft cheeses

Vive le Fromage!: The Cheeses of France

Cheese Class

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Mar 18
Frosted vineyard

Wines of Slovenia

Wine Class

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Mar 19
french vineyard

Wines of France Part 3: Northern France

Wine Class

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Mar 25
pan of cinnamon rolls ready to bake

Cinnamon Roll Making

Baking Class

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Mar 28
Red grapes in a bin at a vineyard at sunset

Wines of the Willamette Valley with Evan Martin

Wine Class

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Apr 15
Wine bottles

WINE of the
MONTH
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CHEESE of the
MONTH
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CLUB 44

Shop LOCAL and GLOBAL right here in Minneapolis

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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MONGERS and SOMMS have to say

What our MONGERS and SOMMS have to say

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MONGERS and SOMMS have to say

What our MONGERS and SOMMS have to say

Margarita & blue bottle of Almave N/A tequila

Mocktail of the Moment: Almave Tommy’s Margarita

Molly holds up Le Fizz in the Non-Alcoholic aisle of the liquor store

What We’re Drinking: Ghia Le Fizz

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The Cheesecutter: Melty Cheeses

Chicken in Mustard Sauce

Cook Like a Cheesemonger: Whole Roast Chicken with Tarragon and Mustard Sauce

bottle of Oddbird Blanc de Blancs

What We’re Drinking: Oddbird N/A Sparkling Blanc de Blancs Languedoc NV

Highball with light orange cocktail beside a bottle of Wilderton N/A Cirtus Aperetivo

Mocktail of the Moment: The Wild Spritz