Kate Michael

Kate Michael, @kstreetkate, is a Writer/Model/On-Camera Host and Event Emcee. Notable as the Founder and current Editor-At-Large of K Street Magazine, Kate started the site while serving as Miss District of Columbia 2006 and competing in Miss America (2007). Currently, Kate works as a professional spokesperson and model, walking the runway for such industry icons as Valentino, Derek Lam, Naeem Kahn and Oscar de la Renta. Her media portfolio includes a spread in Elle magazine and features on Inside Edition and BBC World News’ “The Real Cities” series. You’ll catch her interviewing guests on DC’s NewChannel8′s Let’s Talk Live and showcasing products on BestBuy.com, as well as work appearing on NBC, Fox, Comcast and local print publications.

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Inside Boxwood: A VIP Tour and Tank Tasting

Posted on October 17, 2011 in Around Town

With DC Wine Week well underway in the District, other opportunistic oenophiles took a ‘swirl, sip and spit’ roadtrip to the nearby Boxwood Estate vineyard in Virginia for a rare tour and tank tasting experience.

With Middleburg’s harvest and grape pressing at an end, requests for tours of local wineries – and the chance to taste the fruits of their labor – increase in late Fall. But this walkabout, hosted personally by Boxwood’s EVP Rachel Martin, was even more wonderful.

An intimate group gathered to taste directly from the tallest tanks of fermenting (soon-to-be-barrelled) wine, listen to the malolactic fermentation in Boxwood’s oak barrel aging room, check out the winery’s own bottling line and sample the estate’s finest finished product.