Corks + Caftans is about a marriage: a marriage between two people and of their passions. It’s not just a fashion blog; it’s not just a wine blog… it’s a generous helping of beautiful things and funny moments. The focus is on an appreciation for the small pleasures in life—a sunset, an inspiring meal, a delicious sip of wine, a sumptuous sliver of fabric.
But also, it’s reality and it’s personal—meant to give a glimpse into life; to offer pause for those little things in life. We’ve been proud to be featured in the Albany Times Union, the All Over Albany blog, Saratoga Seen, The Wall Street Journal, the ShopBop blog, Willamette Valley Vineyard’s Blog, and more. Feel free to contact us with questions, any wine you’d love to see reviewed, or just to say hello.
Best,
C+R
Their story:
Carey and Rob met at a dinner their parents arranged almost 4 years ago. It was love at first sight. After Rob postponed a return to upstate New York, spending two glorious months in the Florida summer sun with Carey, he left.
And she followed.
Carey moved to be a copyeditor at a pharmaceutical ad agency in Saratoga Springs, NY. They were married on Nantucket on October 26, 2008 in a small ceremony by the water with close friends and family. After a wine-soaked honeymoon in Napa Valley, CA, they returned home and Carey was laid off from her job.
With time to spare, wine to drink, and a considerably smaller budget for clothes, the two put their energies into a blog. They wanted it to be a chance to share life’s goings-on with friends and family, and to find a home for their second loves: wine and fashion.
The two review wineries, restaurants, recipes, wine, fashion, interiors, and more. Carey has a thing for inspiration, so she writes a lot about that. Rather than spend time lauding designers and dissecting trends, she prefers to see what the people on the street do. She finds inspiration in clothes most often as they are connected to music. [Expect to see a lot of Chris Robinson.] Rob is turning the concept of wine reviews on its ear: he rarely posts about wines he hates, but ones that inspire him. He has an uncanny nack for finding the heart of a wine; its intent. Its core. And winemakers across the country agree.
Most of all, it’s a glimpse into a marriage that refuses to take itself too seriously—a copywriter and a builder, who both love to create and to admire beautiful things. And drink lots of good wine.
Corks and Caftans 
Love, love, love the new layout!
And the bio page. 😉
Carey,
I am LOVING reading your blog! I had been on once before a few months ago after your mom mentioned it, but I had forgotten to come back since then, until your mom posted a quote from it on her FB page last week. I got totally enthralled with your writing, stories, and photographs (they are so great – does Rob take them?) and ended up reading all the way back to where I had last stopped. Even though the boys took advantage of my inattentiveness and trashed the house, the read was worth the clean-up! I was so excited to read your post about Beau & Stella – I immediately checked out the site and got lost looking at the pieces forever. I had been looking for a great necklace I could wear a lot that didn’t cost a fortune and her collection is just my style! I still can’t get over her prices. So anyway, I wanted to thank you for turning me on to her line and for the temporary escape from being a stay-at-home mom;)
Hope your summer is off to a good start!
Liza Becker Twerdahl
Liza, you made my year! What a sweet comment, and the best compliment I’ve ever received. Thank you thank you thank you 🙂 I’m so honored and beyond flattered!
simply perfect. ear-to-ear smile at what you two (and eezles!) have created. just lurvely. 🙂
I had not read the “About Carey and Rob” section and it is purr-fect!
This post is so sweet and romantic! Love the pictures and your love story!
I hadn’t read this before- awesome! What a great story! And love Rob sporting the Wodehouse jersey- he’s your biggest fan 😉 (aw, loving the mushiness 😉
I just came across your blog in my never-ending search for a distraction from work. I absolutely love it! Such a clever idea to share your interests not only with one another but with fellow bloggers as well. It’s nice to see what some would think of as unrelated passions/interests come together in one place. Having not been able to find my “dream job” I recently started a blog and it such a great outlet. (I guess all I can hope for now is a life partner that wants to join me in my blog endeavors! lol) I have to say, I am really inspired by Corks and Caftans– you’ve got yourselves a follower.
-somethingsweetmiami.com
I too love a good caftan. And for some reason I had been spelling it “kaftan.”
I am probably wrong, which is why it’s totally stupid that I have to point out two errors on this page (only because it’s a static, permanent page, and because you’re a copyeditor and I assume you’d want to know): “it’s intent. It’s core.”
It’s = it is
Its = possessive
Please feel free to delete so my awkwardness doesn’t live on forever on your blog/the internet.
You’re forgiven for pointing out typos in the page containing my heartfelt ramblings about why we started our blog! Even though I actually forget it exists.
Do not detect any bitchiness in the tone of this, for it is not intended. I love comments and the people who write them. But I’m a copywriter now, not a copyeditor (thank Buddha), and after 2+ years of losing my sanity copyediting pharmaceutical advertising in the most stressful, hateful backbiting agency on earth, having my typos cost my former company upwards of $90K and eventually cost myself my job, I’ll probably leave them in there as an indication of my humanity, and to remind myself that I’m NOT an editor anymore, and to rejoice in that. In fact, losing that job is how this blog started. So in a way, I can thank typos for the freedom to make typos and not throw myself out a window because they’re in there.
In any event, no need to point out the actual rules of said grammatical error, but thanks for taking the time to.
Thanks for the comment. Good luck with your book, I hope it gets published! And your tumblr is quite entertaining.
No bitchiness detected whatsoever. I rarely comment on other people’s blogs about grammatical errors (seeing as how I’m the queen of misplaced modifiers), and I only do on blogs I like and plan on reading consistently. And of course when they seem like a welcome suggestion.
I probably came off as totally anal, which I am, but it is my dearest wish to be the totally casual kind of lady for whom grammar is but a school filled with, um, children.
I can only imagine the pressure your job exerted on you, and being in a highly detailed role myself, can relate. I wouldn’t have said a thing if I had known! Please accept my apologies, and carry on with your fabulous self/fashions.
pfff— hahahahaha. you are pretty hilar, my friend.
My job, I decided, was about as cool as rectal cancer—no disrespect to those with rectal cancer (why is the Human Centipede trailer CONSTANTLY POPPING INTO MY HEAD. Can’t. Breathe. Sorry for that tangent) and I react to things like typos sort of like this dog: http://blog.internetnews.com/apatrizio/do-not-want-dog.jpg —however, I should know by now to stop exerting that paw-jousting emotion on to unsuspecting strangers. Yourself included.
I almost said grammar wasn’t a priority anymore, but that would have been a total lie. I’m going to email you a pretty little link in a second so that it’s not public on here, and you will hopefully laugh, but also probably think, “Oddly enough, she just outed herself as a total hypocrite!”
Enjoy, in advance. And second, do not apologize. I am a snark, but haven’t figured out how to convey that electronically. Maybe we can invent some excellent emoticon for it?
toodles 🙂 C
Carey & Rob,
Thanks for writing such a delightful blog. I’m a bit of a blog-a-holic, so I nearly overdosed on corks and caftans.
I’m officially a big fan!
Victoria
http://diva-in-distress.blogspot.com