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Since I purchased six Szentesi Pince wines from the Taste Hungary wine club Szentesi’s Grapes from the Past shipment we will be moving rap...

The Etyek-Buda PDO has many unique characteristics regarding Hungarian wine regions. It is very small (1,652 hectares of vineyards) and the...

I'm not sure how I came to obtain this 2021 Vinho Regional Peninsula de Setúbal Vinha Da Fonte Reserva from  Casa Ermelinda Freitas bu...

This month I received three ciders through the BevFluence® New Perspectives on Cider, Perry, and Brandy campaign that's from an interest...

When I heard that the American Cider Association's Open That Cider Bottle was returning on February 25, 2023, I leveraged a trip to Ha...

The American Cider Association's CiderCon 2023 took place in Chicago from February 1st through the 3rd and the event offered "a fu...

In 2022, we visited a paltry 68 craft beverage establishments which was actually an above-average year since 2015 when we would average at l...

Millennia ago, long before the Caucasus region was divided up into nation-states, people living here were cultivating grapes. An ever-increa...

Friday, February 3rd is the Feast Day of St. Blaise and this Armenian-born saint has been venerated in Dubrovnik as far back as 972. Tradit...

Winemaking has been an occupation in the Eastern European country of Moldova for the past seven thousand years starting with the Cucuteni-Tr...

Imagine being the founding member of the rock band Faith No More and in 1992 opening for Guns n' Roses in Budapest, yet the most memor...

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...