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Flying home from Lisbon last month I sounded my pockets (1) and found a few extra Euros in which I converted to a 500ml bottle of Adega Ve...

I last visited Maryland's Loew Vineyards back in June 2005 - an unusually long absence in revisiting wineries. I seemed to have gravita...

On May 22, 2012, then Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signed Senate Bill 579, which established a Class 8 Farm Brewing license for the Free St...

During our summer tour of the Tio Pepe winery in Jerez, we learned that  Gonzalez Byass  has been distilling grape brandy since the found...

One of the first tours of BevFluence's Denver Experience was to Golden Colorado and the Golden Moon Distillery . For good reason. T...

Murrieta's Well is an extremely reliable wine producer located in the Livermore Valley and we have written about this Wente family c...

During a recent #BevfluenceExperience  in Denver our group experimented pairing various wines with candy: Whoppers, Oreos, Twizzlers, Skit...

Regular readers of the WineCompass Blog will recognize the abundant number of posts regarding González Byass , the Jerez producers of Tio P...

Wines of Portugal Gusty, salt-laden winds that can burn leaves. Heavy autumn rains. Nutrient poor, sandy soils. These are the conditions...

Source: Bodega Colomé Imagine an ideal grape growing region. This would most likely be a Mediterranean climate with abundant sunshine, h...

1718 Brewing Ocracoke is well into their second summer and with an obvious demand, the brewery is operating at full capacity to continuousl...