If you’ve noticed more bottles with our name on them over the last ten years, it’s not in your head. It’s a relatively new thing. The first was a Prosecco in 2016, sourced by then-wine buyer Noah Oldham. It’s still one of the ten best-selling items in the store. More have followed, all from the […]

Kathy Shultz started coming to DeLaurenti 50 years ago. She’d grown up on the east side of the state, and when she got married, she figured they’d move back. Her husband, a Seattle-born guy, said, “Oh no!” She missed the seasons. Someone advised her to find something that she loved and make it her own.

Mehdi Boujrada went to Morocco last October with a plan. Villa Jerada was turning 15, and after years of working with Moroccan producers he wanted an oil that came from the place, the people, and the traditions he grew up with. He brought samples to an old friend who farms olives in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains and asked him to make an oil like them.

Four British farmhouse cheeses, chosen wheel by wheel, now in our case.

On a cool morning in early February, Tyler Wilbourne changed into sterile whites in a small creamery outside the town of Herencia, in the heart of La Mancha. Hundreds of wheels of Manchego sat aging in rooms nearby. Four cheesemakers were already at work. Within minutes, he would be too, flipping wheels by hand, packing curds […]

Before irrigation turned Eastern Washington into the country’s orchard, the San Juan Islands shipped fruit across the West. The industry vanished, but the trees kept going. Plum, pear, quince, and apple trees planted more than a century ago still bud and bloom and drop fruit into Orcas Island valleys every year.  Audra Lawlor cooks that […]