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Wine In A Bag, In A Box, With Recylable Packaging And It’s Delcious? Yes, Juliet Wine Is The Real Deal
Juliet Wine comes in an innovative EcoMagnum Juliet Wine On July 20, 2022, the latest innovation in the wine industry dropped onto the market. Wine in a box, or rather, a 100% recyclable cylinder, lau...
What If They Planted A Garden And Nothing Grew?
People who work the land will tell you winter is a fairly peaceful time on a farm. The summer harvest is in and preparations for new plantings are relatively quiet until the new year. Farm in a rural ...
The Little Known 1855 Wine Classification Of Burgundy
Oliver de Cayron with a copy of the map from Dr. Jules Lavalle Tom Mullen In the year 1855, dozens of châteaux in the Bordeaux region of southwest France were classified according to the quality of wi...
A Wine Blog For Every Taste[bud]
So many wines, so many blogs getty Of the plethora of blogs out there, how do you decide where to spend your time? Here’s an unscientific listing of who to read and based on your sundry interests. You...
Wine Gifts That Say How You Really Feel
For the grump, the snark and the sulky drinker in your life. A Sulky, June 26, 1800. Artist Thomas Rowlandson. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty … [+] Images) Heritage Images via ...
Why California’s $46 Billion Wine Industry Is Better Prepared For Climate Change Than Some Of Its Competitors?
Sunset in the vineyards of Sonoma County, CA getty Climate change poses a significant threat for all of agriculture, but it has particularly disruptive potential for the wine industry. This is because...
Giving Tuesday, Wine Style
Radical generosity. That’s a phrase that’s caught my eye for this year’s round of Giving Tuesday — today — when consumers proactively “zoom out” their holiday spending to also include support for nonp...
Turkey Complaints Dominate in the Thanksgiving Debrief
Running out of wine was a complaint of 28% of respondents in a survey about Thanksgiving fails The Raymond Baker Family of 18 members decided to celebrate Thanksgiving early so that Mrs. Nora … ...
How Two Oakland Women Are Rethinking Champagne With A Sparkling Wine Subscription
The Sip sidesteps the price and education barriers of Champagne with affordable, bi-monthly boxes of … [+] smaller-format Champagnes and sparkling wines, plus a shoppable storefront. ROB WILLIAM...
Sparkling Wine And Sherry With Baked Crickets And Worms
Pairing Baked Crickets and Worms with Sherry and Sparkling Wine in Mexico C. Montoya Though there are many creative wine and food pairings around the world, probably one of the most distinctive can be...
Global Wines For A Local Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving’s complex and diverse flavors require several kinds of wine, including rose. getty There’s no getting around the biggest eating holiday of the year without a discussion of what to d...
Food and wine trips to France, Italy, Spain and the UK
When Colin and Jenoa Matthes left their home state of Utah to embark on a world tour in 2019, they found themselves drawn to the food scenes in places like France and Italy. “We really loved, es...
Texas Wine Month Is Ending, But It’s Also Just The Beginning
The Lone Star State may be wrapping up its month of promotion, but offers a diverse portfolio of wines for all year ‘round Upper left and clockwise, the four producers of Texas Fine Wine: Bending Bran...
Wines To Pair With Your Halloween Costume
Why not complete your costume with the ultimate liquid accessory? Obviously they didn’t get the Halloween costume memo, circa 1928. (Photo by Dick Whittington … [+] Studio/Corbis via Getty...
How A Changing Climate Is Altering The Way We Drink,” Alarms Readers Yet Offers Hope
Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink Brian Freedman Whether wine lover or neophyte, anyone paying attention to the news these days knows the wine industry has suffered a series...
Drinking While Puppy Training
You’ll need a few good bottles if you plan to raise a puppy (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) Getty Images I’ve taken some liberties over the years with pairing wine with the unusual—books, mov...
Virginia Wines Deserve A Place At The Table
It’s Virginia Wine Month—not that you need a reason or a season to try these sleek and savvy wines. Bottles from the winning “Governor’s Cup” case. Virginiawine.org Winemaking and Vi...
3 New Books For The Drink Obsessed
Three new books that make a strong case for cozy nights in Kate Dingwall Cozy season is here. Bets are, your couch and comfy clothes beckon you to cuddle up with a good book (and drink) to ride out th...
This Defiant Mother Is Creating A Different Touch Of Tuscan Wine
Winemaker Paola De Blasi of Beba99 wine, Anghiari, Tuscany, Italy Paola De Blasi Renaissance artists Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti, working on a contract signed by Niccolò Machiavelli ...
Exploring Tuscan Wine Country By Fiat Cinquecento
During a recent vacation I visited Tuscan wineries in a Fiat 500 car— known in Italy as a cinquecento (pronounced CHINK-way CHEN-tow). The word—rolling with alliteration—can apparently also add emphas...
How This Vietnamese Woman Succeeds With Her Bordeaux Wine
In May of 2021, I sat at picnic table next to the Gironde Estuary in Bordeaux for a casual spring lunch and tasted a 2020 Bordeaux wine with a deep blue label named Song by Bong. What a surprise. I la...
Saturday Wine Choice, To Pair With Love, Sweat And Roadside Sandwiches
“At the end of the day,” say the founders of Little Trouble Wine Co., “we’re two best pals who are thrilled to share our labor of love and sweat and roadside sandwiches with you.” If that doesn’...
Monique Soltani Talks Loss, Grief, And Returning To Wine As She Resumes Wine Oh.tv For 2023
Monique, Mark, and their twin daughters in San Francisco before he died. Monique Soltani Monique Soltani had a loving husband, twin daughters, and a flourishing career producing a television show expl...
Flasko (FLSK): Whiskey, wine and champagne investment protocol for cryptocurrency investors
We all have heard the adage at one time or another: fine, high-grade wines age better over time. The same can be said for whiskeys and champagne. And as an asset class, rare wines, whiskeys, and champ...
Learn About The Wine Category That ‘Continues To Dominate Sales’ In The New Book, Rosés Of Southern France
Rosé from the South of France is one of today’s most exciting wine categories. getty Anyone who reads about or researches rosé has likely consulted the writing of Elizabeth Gabay MW. She’s the a...
How Prosecco Became The World’s Most Popular Sparkling Wine: With A Name Change
Prosecco, the Italian sparkling wine, is the world’s most popular fizz. It sells more bottles than French champagne and Spanish cava combined. But it is a quite recent invention. Up until 2009 Prosecc...