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      Wohlfert Distilling Craft Spirits Ride on Prohibition Heritage

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      Why Low-Alcoholic Wine May Be Increasing & An Adult Beverage Option; Even No-Alc can be Tasty

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      Enjoy Cancun-adjacent Isla Mujeres at Coco B Villas

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      Travel for 2025 Makes a Great Holiday Gift – Romance, Family, Celebration or Solo

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    Some beers I drank

    Tom Mansell
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    I drank a few beers in 2014. Here are some of my favorites. Gigantic Brewing Company IPL (Portland, OR) I liked India Pale Lagers better when they were called pilsners. Actually, there is a subtle difference between your average German-style pilsner and IPL. An IPL is essentially an American IPA

    My favorite wines of 2014

    Becky Sue Epstein
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    I can’t tell you how many hundreds of wines I’ve tasted this year. Wait, that sounds snobby. In truth, I’m privileged to be able to sample and evaluate wines all around the world – and sometimes I even get to drink them. Evaluating wines in a region often leads to

    Good Spirits for 2015

    Gary Thomas
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    Back in my bartending days (many, many years ago) we rarely ventured outside of anything more complicated than a martini or a Manhattan, and we hated anyone asking for a blender drink. (“Sorry, the blender is broken. “)   But now we are in the grip of the craft cocktail craze.

    Glass sippers: Keeping abreast of fashions in sparkling stemware

    Michelle Locke
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    Sparkling wine has always been a glass act. It was the invention of stronger bottles in 17th-century Britain that made the beverage cellar-safe, solving the problem of exploding bottles which had plagued effervescent beverages. And the glasses used to serve sparkling wines have gone through more than a few incarnations

    Countdown to New Year’s Eve: Vintage Champagne and more

    Becky Sue Epstein
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    This is the final week of our exploration of different types of sparkling wines –Champagne included, of course – so you’ll be able to make a great choice for your New Year’s Eve occasion. Rather than an exhaustive explanation of champagnes and sparkling wines, this series is meant to provide

    In praise of the “mouth rinse”

    W. Blake Gray
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    Kermit Lynch once described a wine he imported as "a mouth rinse." He meant it as praise. I saw this a decade ago and have never forgotten it. Nobody speaks well of simplicity in wine. It doesn't matter which side of the power vs. elegance debate you're on. Power fans

    What We’re Drinking – 2009 Dry Creek Vineyard “The Mariner” Meritage

    David Honig
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    Umami and tannins, bacon and herbs. Single vineyard may be the rage, but blends let the winemaker play with the whole palette, for your palate. This is dark, inky black at its core, and almost as dark on the nose. Blackberries, cassis lead, followed by a touch of bacon fat

    The trials of being organic

    Simon J Woolf
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    Last week, the New Zealand Organic Focus Project gave a public presentation on three medium to large NZ wineries who participated in a side-by-side organic versus conventional agriculture trial. The aim was to demonstrate the relative ease or difficulty of conversion to organic viticulture. Palate Press's own Erika Szymanski reported
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