The Kitchen Emporium and Gifts, LLC

09/12/2026

Beauty by Beatriz Ball at The KEG

Creamy color. Golden details. Effortless warmth. ✨
Discover Encanto pieces that make every autumn table feel a little more luxurious.

09/12/2026

09/11/2026

Dramatic Diurnal Temperature Shift: On Wednesday, our estate recorded one of the highest temperatures in Napa Valley at 107.1 degrees, but also one of the lowest that evening at 52.5 — a swing of over 54 degrees. Diurnal temperature swings like this are one of the reasons our wines can exhibit great, ripe fruit while still maintaining their elegance.

09/11/2026

What a sweet idea....

Mini donut snowmen ⛄️ these are cute for the holidays! 🎄

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09/11/2026

Somewhere near you right now there is a gray paper nest the size of a football hanging in a tree, and the people who lived here before us read it like a forecast.

See how high the hornet's nest, and it will tell how high the snow will rest. That is the old New England and Appalachian version. Low nest, light winter. High nest, deep snow. Some hollows told it the other way around, which is how you know it is lore and not law.

Here is the part that makes it worth the walk. The nest is done. The queen started it in May the size of a golf ball, and by now it holds a few hundred hornets and will not grow another inch. In a few weeks the frost will empty it and it will hang there all winter like a lantern nobody lit.

So this weekend, find one. Mark how high it hangs. Then remember it in January and see whether the old folks had it right. That is the whole game, and it costs nothing to play.

09/11/2026

We will never forget....

NEVER EVER FORGET 🕯🇺🇸