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Friday, April 28, 2023

Grape Spotlight: Neusiedlersee Zweigelt

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The creation of the Zweigelt variety in the 1920s, a crossing between Blaufränkisch and St. Laurent, only really gained recognition after th...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Nationals Park Craft Beverage Tour

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I noticed that the Nationals had a Josiah Gray bobblehead promotion and thought that was a good incentive to attend a game and while I'm...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Herbal Liqueurs: Zwack Unicum Szilva

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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...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

A Craft Beverage Road Trip along Route 340 in the Shenandoah Valley

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On a trip home from Waynesboro, I decided to ditch the tractor-trailer-laden Route 81 and ventured north on the more peaceful and bucolic Ro...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Grape Spotlight: Etyek-Buda Szentesi Tihany Kék

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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...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Grape Spotlight: Etyek-Buda Szentesi Laska

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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...
Friday, March 24, 2023

Grape Spotlight: Etyek-Buda Szentesi Kadarka

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The Etyek-Buda PDO has many unique characteristics regarding Hungarian wine regions. It is very small (1,652 hectares of vineyards) and the...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Grape Spotlight: IGP Peninsula de Setúbal Castelão from Casa Ermelinda Freitas

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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...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Old Growth Orchard Ciders from British Columbia's Lonetree Cider

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This month I received three ciders through the BevFluence® New Perspectives on Cider, Perry, and Brandy campaign that's from an interest...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Sage Bird Ciderworks Pommeau and Ashmead's Kernel for #openthatciderbottle

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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...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Five Takeaways from CiderCon 2023

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The American Cider Association's CiderCon 2023 took place in Chicago from February 1st through the 3rd and the event offered "a fu...
Friday, February 10, 2023

How Many Craft Beverage Establishments Will You Visit in 2023?

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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...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Grape Spotlight: Azerbaijani Rkatsiteli

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Millennia ago, long before the Caucasus region was divided up into nation-states, people living here were cultivating grapes. An ever-increa...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Drinking with the Saints: St. Blaise and Malvasija dubrovacka

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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...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Grape Spotlight: Codru PGI Moldovian Pinot Noir from Chateau Vartely

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Winemaking has been an occupation in the Eastern European country of Moldova for the past seven thousand years starting with the Cucuteni-Tr...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Yebiga BELA Rakija -> Award Winning Rustic Plum Brandy

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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...