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The final wine we received this winter from The Wine Chateau was the Castello Banfi Belnero 2010 ($28). This family owned winery has a un...

Yesterday I spent a rainy Saturday testing the various features of #theCompassApp Winery, Brewery, & Distillery Locator by visiting thr...

This weekend I sampled two more Zhumir products and am quickly becoming fond of this  Ecuadorean company. The Paute is a spirit made fro...

This weekend I spent in New York - and in between bad weather - had a little time to explore the Shawangunk Wine Trail - about an hour no...

My whole family just returned from celebrating Christmas and vacationing at the wonderful Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis. Bes...

When our friends at the Wine Chateau forwarded a care package, one of the wines brought back memories of my first ventures into wine thou...

During the past few weeks I have been learning about Argentinean wine through Protocol Wine Studio 's titter chat #winestudio . This w...

Our friends at the Wine Chateau sent us another care package this Fall and I immediately saw fit to open the 2011 Château des Jacques Mou...

During last Spring's coverage of the Savor Craft Beer Experience I read about a new fad in craft brewing - combining peanut butter an...

Last week Pure Chablis came to D.C. to showcase the region's wines and I was fortunate to be invited to a lunch at Proof .  The lun...

This past Wednesday @wineclubguy of Uncorked Ventures hosted the weekly #winehchat and featured tow wine from Wesley Ashley Wines in wh...

I recently received the good fortune of having five spirits shipped to me from Heritage Distilling , a craft distiller located in Gig Harbor...

This past Thursday was another quarterly installment of Virtual Wines , hosted by Old York Cellars , an online video tasting of two wines ...

We heard recently that Maryland cider maker, Great Shoals Winery , opened a tasting room in my old neighborhood, so on my next trip home,...

Recently I read an article titled Pa. wine production ranks 5th in the nation , which surprising since for the past few years I was under th...

  After a day of cycling I ended with the normal practice of grabbing a beer at my local Wholefood Market . The on tap menu was heavy on hea...

Recently I found this interesting item in the orphaned wine & beer bin at my local Wholefoods and decided to give it a temporary home...