Following in your father’s footsteps is no easy job, especially when that involves being the master distiller for one of America’s favorite bourbons. But every now and again there is a glimmer and sparkle as a new star rises, and today that star is Eddie Russell. Russell’s father and Wild …
When it comes to the mysterious health benefits of wine, no one has pioneered the way quite like British wine expert Roger Corder. Author of best-selling book The Red Wine Diet, Roger has conducted groundbreaking research on the topic for over two decades. Drink Me recently caught up with Roger to …
Hard cider has resurfaced as the darling of the beverage world. Now it’s time to meet ice cider. Forget the analogy with iced tea and tea. Ice cider is apple ice wine, similar to Sauternes or a sweet Riesling, and nothing like long-gone Apple Boone’s Farm. Ice cider doesn’t have …
Halifaxian (Halifaxoid? Halifaxinite?? HALIGONIAN!!!) Roy Clorey has worked at the same job for 370 dog years, but the only thing dogged about him is his desire to keep going. “This is my ninth bar in the same hotel but in different locations,” chuckled Clorey, his eyes shining and his open …
There was sad news for the food & drink industry this week, as authorities are searching for those responsible for a Christmas Day heist at the world renowned restaurant, “French Laundry”, in Northern California’s Wine Country. The restaurant has long been a reputable and highly respected establishment, holding a 4-star …
“Cider making,” says Gregory Hall, the former brewmaster for Goose Island Beer Company, “is more exciting than beer’s ever been.” We are surrounded by stacks of oak barrels at Virtue, Hall’s craft cidery that opened in 2011 in bucolic Fennville, Michigan, a small community in the fruit belt along Lake …
In the 1850s, more than 10,000 coopers worked in Ireland, but today, there are only four people that carry the title of Master Cooper. Ger Buckley, Master Cooper of Midleton Distillery where Jameson is made, is a fifth generation Irish barrel maker (at least that’s as far as his family …
Pardon the exhausted cliche, but Jean Charles Boisset is the embodiment of the American dream. Coming into a modest French wine-producing operation at birth, he eventually became the president of one of the most important wine groups in the world; his career has traced the development of wine domestically and …
An Interview with Tito Beveridge Tito Beveridge managed almost singlehandedly to change the way an entire category of alcohol is perceived. Still, for all of the success of Tito’s Vodka, it wasn’t always a guarantee that he’d make it. Publisher Cornelius Geary sat down with Beveridge in San Francisco to discuss …
An Interview with Heidi Barrett For all her fame and acclaim – winner of the first multiple 100-point scores for a Napa winemaker, the original artisan behind the cult-status Screaming Eagle, owner of her own brand La Sirena, and a very busy consulting career – Heidi Barrett is the most …
Bouvet-Ladubay is a sparkling wine house in the Loire Valley that began in 1851. While Bouvet was acquired in 2006 by the world’s largest group of alcoholic beverages, the UB Group, based in India, the day to day management is still controlled by the Monmousseau family, who purchased Bouvet in …