On October 24, La Vie Est Belle turned the cheese board into a little haunted harvest table. The candles were low, the autumn mood was high, and the lineup felt made for the season: frosty rinds, moonlit blues, a misty ash-veined goat cheese, and a Gouda with enough warmth to keep the spirits friendly. The tasting, titled All Hallows Cheese: a Harvest Cheese Tasting, brought together six cheeses with names and personalities fit for the week before Halloween. Some were creamy

Let me start this with a ghost story Some storms you remember. This one, you survive. The Armory on the UW Madison campus 1991 Ask anyone who lived through the Halloween Blizzard of 1991 what they remember, and they won't start with a number. They'll look past you for just a second and ask: where were you? From October 31 through November 4, 1991, a massive storm crawled over the Upper Midwest and refused to leave. Moisture funneled north from the Gulf of Mexico met arctic ai

An Evening of Wine and Cheese at 7 Vines There's a reason wine and cheese have been sharing a table for centuries. A good pairing makes each one taste better than it would on its own. At our latest pairing event, we set six award-winning cheeses beside six of 7 Vines' wines, and the results were delicious. Every cheese on the table earned a ribbon at the 2026 American Cheese Society Judging Competition, and many of the wines come with medals of their own. Here is the lineup.