“This Friday, please join guest pourer Heather from wine distributor Potomac Selections as we focus on the wines of Argentina …”
“Though beermaking did not originate in Germany, the Germans may very well have the world’s longest continuous brewing tradition …”
“In 1900, Frenchman Pierre Tintero was making his way through Italy’s Piedmont region looking for work when he found the widow Rosina Cortese in need of someone to do odd jobs around her farm. The two soon married and worked her property (now his as well) including her vines, bottling their first Dolcetto in 1914 …”
“The Burgundy wine region is one of France’s most famous … Burgundy has has five sub-regions — Chablis, Côte de Nuits, Côte de Beaune, Côte Chalonnaise, and Mâconnais … Actually, it’s six sub-regions since Beaujolais is a part of Burgundy …”
“Redbeard Brewing Company is a nano-brewery across the mountain in downtown Staunton. Jonathan Wright founded it in 2013. Working on just a ~3 barrel system, he makes British, Belgian, and American styles, leaving all of his beers unfiltered and unfined …”
“The Fonné family has been independent winemakers since 1747. Today, it’s Michel and his three daughters Déborah, Sarah and Salomé …“
“Please join us this Friday as guest pourer Marilee from distributor Banville Wine Merchants pours wines from these two worldly grapes …”
“Of course, if you have apples — specifically if you have a specialty orchard with over 250 varieties of apples — what other things can you do with them …”
“The upper Mediterranean has given us cultures that have spread wine to western Europe and — both directly and indirectly — to the world. Thus, it makes sense that there would be wines that you can pair with Mediterranean food …”
“We are closed this July 4th, so we will not have a wine tasting this evening.”
“Of all the drinks you could have on hot, hot summer days, nothing is quite as satisfying as a cold beer.”
“If you’re looking for some wines that will make you thrill to what you grill, we have some suggestions.”
“France is a country of rivers! Its longest river, twisting and turning through the country from its Atlantic delta in the northwest, snaking down to dissipate between Avignon and Lyon in the southeast, is the Loire! “
“The Hop Breeding Company released Mosaic in 2012, devloping it from Simcoe and Nugget-derived hops. What they were shooting for was a strong, dual-purpose hop. What they got is a Swiss Army Knife of a hoptasticness …”
“Crossing the country from west to east, France has an embarrassment of riches in its southern wine regions …”
“El País Vasco has its own geography, its own history, its own culture, and its own language. Not surprisingly, it also has its own wine. In decline for most of the 20th Century, the region experienced a resurgence in the 1980s and is now one of Spain’s most prized wine regions …”
“The most popular grain to malt for beer, by far, is barley. So much of your beer is the product of so many different types of barley malt. However, there are other maltable grains, the most popular of which is wheat …”
“Please join us this Wednesday as we taste cider from Patois and Troddenvale at Oakley Farm. “
“Of course, the thing is … winemaking is not a gendered activity. Women can make wine … and do …”
“Hey! There’s a new distributor in town, so we have a whole new catalog to snag from …”
“The Grenache grape is one of the most widely distributed grapes in the world … it’s one of the world’s wine grapes.
“In 2018, the Prosecco DOC Consortium announced that the first week of June would be International Prosecco Week. In recognition, please join guest pourer Julie from distributor Plant Wines for a free, walk-up Prosecco tasting.”
“Silver Branch says that they are dedicated to both European and American Brewing traditions, but it seems that they have a soft spot for German beers …”
“The first major development in French wine history … was rosé!”
“Winemaking in this hemisphere started with the Spanish funded exploiters, missionaries, and conquistadors who crossed the ocean looking for materials and colonial opportunities centuries ago. In the 1600s, they brought grapes with them to Central and South America, planting vines to make new grapes to, in turn, make wine both for secular and religious consumption …”
“1999 has Starr Hill open before every other current C’Ville craft brewery except for South Street, which opened months earlier in 1998 …”
“The most convincing evidence that we’ve read about says that the French started sparkling wine in the late 1600s. Very soon after that, either they or the English (believe it or not) came up with the current method that the French use, now known as the Méthode Traditionnelle, which involves inducing a controlled secondary fermentation in the bottle to sparkle the wine once your primary fermentation is done. However, as we have intimated, this method is not the way wine was originally sparkled …”
“Today, Portuguese wine is finding new breath as more and more winemakers turn away from French and Italian grape varieties to native grapes …”
So, no beer tasting this week as we chill with the Franco-Chileans.
“Central Italy has two of the country’s most famous wine regions — Tuscany on the northwest part of Italy’s central area and Abruzzo across the peninsula, to the southeast …”
