About Vinaigrette
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Why we started....
Quite simply, we are people with a passion for food and cooking. We also like to have fun! With that in mind, we have always been on the lookout for delicious, quality ingredients – olive oil and vinegar in particular.
While living in Northern California in the late 1990s, we loved to tour the Wine Country – primarily for the luxury of tasting wine before we bought. We were so disappointed when we would buy something off the local market shelf (wine, olive oil, vinegar), get it home anticipating the experience, and not really liking what we had just bought. What a let down! After all, you can taste products at the deli counter or in the bakery – why not any product? In addition, no one was more confused or frustrated when going into a wine store with so many choices. Where do we begin? Australia? France? What will I like? Where do I start? We were on a mission to find the fun, one-on-one experience of the wineries we experienced in Northern California. People asking us about what we enjoyed and helping us find the product that would work best for our tastes - Uniquely ‘us’.
Over the next ten years, with our business backgrounds on alert for the opportunity to begin a business concept where we could share our love of food and fun, we searched and waited for the right idea to come along. We shopped at stores that seemed to care about us. To help us buy instead of ‘selling’ to us, and knew that this would be the way we would make our customers feel. Then, on one of our trips back to Northern California for tours through the wine country, we had an epiphany. One of the wineries had started to grow olives on their property, and offered samples of olive oil and wine vinegar along with their wine tasting. We loved it! The first dinner we prepared with the oil, vinegar and wine we had tasted then purchased was amazing!
As time went on, we thought about all the different oils and vinegars we had fallen in love with and thought “wouldn’t it be fun to be able to taste Greek olive oil beside an Italian olive oil and really decide which one we preferred”.
Thus, the idea for Vinaigrette was born. We started looking into getting the variety required to really do side by side comparisons. The tasting experience is what we wanted to share with our family and friends. We wanted to get the freshest, best tasting product at a reasonable price with unmatched customer service.
At Vinaigrette, we provide a retail experience that is unlike anything many people have seen. We can tell you when the olives for our oils were harvested and pressed. You can taste a Syrian, Tunisian, Egyptian, Greek, Spanish, Italian and Californian olive oil side by side to see what you prefer. We go beyond just extra virgin olive oils - our fused oils allow you an even richer tasting experience. Try different flavors like Lemon, Orange, Garlic or Basil (to name just a few) and decide what you like and decide how much you would like to purchase while standing right in the store! Our balsamic, flavored balsamic and wine vinegars are unparalleled, and you get the same tasting experience - you taste and decide what you like.
We look forward to seeing you at Vinaigrette to find oils and vinegars to tap, taste and treasure for years to come.
Welcome! Come taste the difference.
Richard and Sarah Piepenburg
Owners of Vinaigrette
