Passionate Cellar Master Hervé Deschamps of Maisson Perrier-Jouët brings an artistry to blending delicately nuanced, harmoniously balanced Champagne you can taste in every sip of Belle Epoque 2007. Fortune as well as skill came into play in the success of this beautiful cuvée–an unseasonably warm April back in that fruitful …
A passion for distilling gained from veterinary school at the University of Pisa in Italy turned into Catskill Distilling Company. During his time traveling around Italy, Catskill Distilling founder Monte Sachs learned the art of distilling traditional grappa from a 80-year-old farmworker. He brought the newly learnt trade back to …
If you work in the wine industry there are two questions you hear a lot: first, what wine should I look out for? And second, what’s your favorite wine for the money? A recent trade survey revealed that there is one wine that answers both questions. 92% of trade …
With an overflowing bouquet of fresh-squeezed flavors of apricots, peaches, and lemons tempered with a pleasantly pucker-inducing sour character, Dry Dock Brewery’s Apricot Sour is edging closer and closer to becoming our go-to summer afternoon American Style Sour Ale. Sours have been a hit in recent years with brew aficionados for a …
It’s 10:00 AM and I have just tasted my 61st glass of prosecco. I am feeling superiore. And while I don’t traditionally recommend 61 glasses in one sitting, this is why I have traveled to Veneto for the annual Vino in Villa: to learn why the wines of Conegliano Valdobiaddene …
Accomplishing a fulfilling, pleasurable, and health-conscious lifestyle requires a delicate balance. You work out regularly (or at least semi-regularly); you eat a wholesome diet rich in fresh fruits, vegetables, and lean protein; and you faithfully consume endless liters of cool, pure water. You even floss. Most of the time. But …
Orange County, California-based The Bruery’s new “Share This” series of unique and innovative craft beers is not only producing creative and high-quality brews we love, it’s also raising funds for a variety of humanitarian causes dictated by each brewing project. In the case of the brewery’s Share This Coffee Stout, …
We continue our imbibe voyage in search of the Black Cow Gold Top Cup Champion, finding ourselves in the wonderful city of Cardiff. Over the past couple of years Cardiff has undergone a huge regeneration, attracting some incredible talent and thus mixology creativity – we were fortunate enough to experience …
It’s late afternoon on a beautiful day in Sonoma. You skipped lunch in favor of grazing and wine tasting, and now you’re ready for something absolutely delicious to eat to complement some of the world-class vino you’ve just finished sampling. And maybe a little more wine—you’re in Sonoma, after all. …
In describing his impromptu decision to start making wine after graduating UC Santa Cruz with a degree in American Literature to The Corkscrewer Report in 2015, David Ramey of Ramey Wine Cellars said “…Why don’t I make wine? It’s an esthetic statement like literature, like the elements of composition in film. …
When you enter the beautifully appointed, recently reopened tasting room at Madrone Estate (the oldest operating winery in Glen Allen) you’re stepping into 150 years of Sonoma Valley winemaking history. The sunlit patio, bocce court, and 100-year-old grapevines are evidence of the Italian-made varietals that were produced here using the …
If pinot noir spontaneously transmogrified into human form and showed up at a dinner party to which you’d been invited, you would do well to avoid him. (Or her.) Notoriously temperamental, thin-skinned and over-sensitive to a fault, Pinot probably wouldn’t get a single one of your jokes (even your best …