"For this wine, take what you’re used to from New Zealand Sauvignon Blancs and set it aside ..."
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"Releasing this brew just at the beginning of this past summer, Richmond’s Väsen Brewing Company may have taken this beer’s name from the recently released young fantasy novel. However, there’s a Cloud Thief restaurant in Sydney, Australia, so it could be that — you never know. Whatever its eponym, the Cloud Thief is aptly titled as it’s a super hazy wheat IPA ..."
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"CARMIM is the Cooperativa Agrícola de Reguengos de Monsaraz. Created in 1971, they now have 800 members producing wine, brandy, and olive oil, making it Alentejo’s largest winery and one of the largest in the country ..."
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"The Content Modulator is a dark lager brewed with a loaded malt bill — Pilsner Malt, Munich Malt, Caramunich Malt, and Pale Chocolate Malt. If you think the resultant brew will be too rich, fear not ..."
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"In 2006, Vincente’s great-grandchildren, Juan Diez and Santiago Matallana Bulnes stepped forward to bring the family’s old dream alive. They hired a vineyard manager and winemaker who set them on the path to creating a low intervention winery ..."
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"Believe it or not, the Italian-Style Pilsner is a relatively new thing ... In 1996, founder Agostino Arioli set out to make a German style Pilsner. It didn’t come out the way he wanted, but he liked what he finally got ..."
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"Morellino is more commonly known as Sangiovese. However, the Morellino di Scansano differs from north Tuscan Sangiovese in that, here, in Maremma, the grape ripens more fully. A riper grape leads to rounder and more savory Sangiovese … which brings us to this week’s red Wine of the Week."
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"Oh, what the Citra hop hath wrought ... Thank you, Veil, for further justifying our love of the pineapple IPA."
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"Cantina del Morellino di Scansano is a collective of winemakers who banded together in 1972. After a decade of growth, they found themselves at a crossroads — focus on producing more wine (and grow bigger) or focus on increasing their wine’s quality ..."
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"The Pocahoptus is one of Center of the Universe’s first beers. An unfiltered West Coast Style IPA, it contains, according to them, 'four different hops from the Pacific Northwest combined with a base of imported English 2-row barley and Crystal malts.' ..."
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"Though the Grupo is still run by members of the Ucín family, the modern identity of Olarra was carved out by former winemaker Ezequiel García, who was the Olarra winemaker for 21 years, dying in 2017. García worked to produce fruit-driven, blended Riojas with fruit pulled from local growers ..."
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"Solace’s Super Dope is proof that you can’t judge an IPA by its hops. They fashion it out of Amarillo, Centennial, and Columbus hops, which sounds like a recipe for West Coast Style citrusy bitterness. Instead ..."
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"Though based in Alligny-Cosne, on the east side of the Loire, in Nièvre, between Orléans and Bourges to the west, Maison Foucher keeps 40 hectares of vineyards in Muscadet Sèvre et Maine. The Melon de Bourgogne for this Loire Valley white comes from there, from vines that are up to 35 years old ..."
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"Before co-founding Blue Mountain Brewery in 2007 ... Taylor Smack was ... in Chicago heading up the brewing for Goose Island Brewing Company's brewpubs ... Now, Goose Island is the maker of the legendary Bourbon County Stout — America’s first commercially offered bourbon barrel-aged stout — and Smack was working there about five years into that beer’s run. So, it's no wonder that four years after founding Blue Mountain, Taylor oversaw the building of the Blue Mountain Barrel House — a facility dedicated to barrel-aged beers. Sadly, that program has scaled down, but its first beer – the Dark Hollow – remains ..."
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"In the 1990s, Guibert Family patriarch Aimé Guibert discovered 'an exceptional amphitheatre' of vineyards in Villeveyrac, in the Hérault department. Said amphitheater is a ring of hills facing the port city of Sète and the Mediterranean Sea beyond it. At a time when people were pulling up vines, Aimé Guibert worked with local growers to save the area ... His Moulin de Gassac line of wines (first release, 1993) come from the grapes grown in Villeveyrac vineyards and played an important role in demonstrating the value of this area for wine production ..."
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"The 2024 Oktoberfest doesn’t start until September 21st, however breweries send their Oktoberfest beers earlier and earlier. Since we’re doing our tour of local breweries for our August beers of the week, we couldn’t resist dipping into to Starr Hill’s Oktoberfest offering even if it is way early ..."
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“In 1974, Aimé and Véronique Guibert bought their farm, Mas de Daumas Gassac, in south France’s Languedoc-Roussillon region. They were eager to be farmers but didn’t know what crops they should farm until a university soil specialist said, ‘Oh, with what I’m seeing, you should plant grapes’ …”
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“Lush and creamy, the Windswell somehow manages to be refreshing but not necessarily crisp. It’s another example of C’Ville giving the New England IPA a lot of local love.”
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“The Lutra (The Otter) is just what you expect and want from a Portuguese red …”
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“From 2019 to 2020, our own Three Notch’d Brewing Company ran their first Nephology Series - a collection of hazy IPAs made with different hop combinations, and they kept track of reactions to see which one was the most popular. At the end of the trial, Nephology Series No. 4 was dubbed the King of Clouds! Back then, the winning combination of hops was Zythos, Mandarina Bavaria, and, everyone’s favorite, Mosaic. Though the King of Clouds remains in their lineup four years later, Three Notch’d has updated the recipe …”
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