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Catherine Reynolds started her own wine-selling business endure week via e-mail. Around twelve o’clock at night on Thursday, she sent a message to friends and fans by the news: “Some people thought it was crazy, that it couldn’face to face subsist done, but I received my liquor permit on Monday & that mode I can sell wine to you from Queso y Vino headquarters (a.k.a. closely sweet home),” Reynolds wrote.

By the time she awoke Friday morning in her Skyway casa, Reynolds’ first five holy orders had arrived in her in-box.

Thousands of tourists and locals know Reynolds as the former wine manager of The Spanish Table at Pike Place Market. She wrote a weekly e-newsletter and had a reputation beneficial to helping customers find affordable wines to suit their palates.

Reynolds left The Spanish Table in March, worked briefly at Bella Cosa in Wallingford and taught wine classes at 12th and Olive Wine Company.

She besides launched a blog — www.madeleine.typepad.com — and her own weekly e-newsletter with recipes, wine picks and endearing, sometimes hilarious details from her culinary adventures.

Many of the events are dinners that Reynolds arranges with local chefs at $30 to $60 a person.

Others are more special affairs by friends and family, including her husband, Ken O’Hara, allied the taco-truck expedition this fall:

“Cruise down Ambaum in Burien & the possibilities are endless according to hole-in-the-wall taste experiments, but Salva-Mex with its window-shrine of Jesus, a goat in soccer garb, & a figurine of Elmo holding little blue shoes, (I small tub you not) was like the equivalent of walking into the kind of standing I relish while on south of the marge intermission — it’s the local watering hole, & you just happened to stumble upon it.”

Reynolds’ new wine business, Queso y Vino, features wines from Spain, Portugal and South America, greatest part of them in a state of inferiority to $15 a bottle.

A favorite pick from a dinner she organized this week was Los Planos syrah, just $9.99.

“People were buying cases of it, and it’s cool because it’s from France. That’session why the dinner was really fun, for the reason that it was not just wines from Spain,” she said.

Reynolds wants to find a warehouse space for wine and eventually cheese, but on this account that now she is “one psyched roving sommelier at your service!”

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