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We are sticking with Amaro in our  Herbal Liqueur series with the Amaro Montenegro 1885 . As the name suggests, this liqueur was launched i...

Last week I participated in an Uruguay Wine 101 seminar hosted by Uruguay Wine and INAVI (Instituto Nacional de Vitivinicultura) and pres...

We've been casual followers of Ron Rubin ever since he purchased the River Road Family Vineyards &Winery back in 2011 and his subseq...

Amaro translates to “bitter” in Italian, but the category of bittersweet herbaceous liqueurs is far from one-note. It spans a range of flavo...

Badel Pelinkovac Gorki  is the oldest and most famous Croatian herbal liqueur that was first crafted by Franjo Pokorny in 1871 at the Zagre...

In 1790, Habsburg ruler Joseph II had a bout of indigestion, and asked Dr. József Zwack, royal physician to the Imperial Court, for a remedy...

Lombardy is one of Italy's largest and most populous regions and is located in the north-central part of the country. It consists of fiv...

  We can all agree that every winery provides its own unique glorious view of the surrounding countryside and the views from  Hazy Mountain ...

Virginia Cider Week started last Friday and runs through November 20th and we attended the kickoff event Cider Smackdown: Attack of the Cra...

Last week the Uruguay Wine Fall Tour landed in Washington DC where 16 producers poured several wines each at  La Cosecha (voted one of Ame...

Since attending my first Maryland wine festival about 20 years ago and through various festivals and trade tastings over the successive year...

I finally began preparing for the  Certified Cider Professional  (CCP) exam this week as part of the BevFluence New Perspectives on Cider, P...