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/26 Nov 2019
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MASS PACK APPEALS THE CUMBERLAND FARMS INITIATIVE

Massachusetts Package Stores Association (MPSA) member retailers of beer, wine and spirits from across the state have banded together to challenge the decision by Attorney General Maura Healey to certify Initiative Petition No. 19-14 (the “Cumberland Farms Initiative”) for a “Law Relative to the Sale of Beer and Wine by...
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/01 Nov 2017
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DISCOVERING UNDER-VALUED BEER STYLES for FALL

by ANDY CROUCH FALLS BRINGS US another opportunity to contemplate some under-valued beer styles.  We don’t know whether the India Pale Ale craze may be fad or lasting trend but it dominates the scene at the moment.  The current consumer movement towards hoppy, hazy beers shows no signs of abating...
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/29 Sep 2017
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BORDEAUX 2O16 A Classic Vintage

by HARVEY FINKEL THERE SEEM to be no dismal vintages any more in Bordeaux, and perhaps surprisingly too many hailed with superlatives. But the latter are, to me, usually over-extracted, dense, and lacking in grace – echoes of wines made with more enthusiasm than finesse in northern California. Now, however,...
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/29 Sep 2017
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CHÂTEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE

by SANDY BLOCK, MW CHÂTEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE: Prior to visiting the Rhône Valley for the first time in the 198Os this legendary name (“new castle of the Pope”) had me envisioning majestic towers of fortified granite, gleaming marble hallways, and medieval era turrets.  Imagine the shock as I found myself navigating through...
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/31 Aug 2017
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WINE MAY PREVENT DEMENTIA

by HARVEY FINKEL, MD DEMENTIA has become an enormous worldwide burden: medical, economic, personal.  Many of those afflicted would still be in their productive years.  No resolution is in sight.  We are avid for anything that might reduce the toll. Dementia is a progressive brain dysfunction chiefly attacking memory and...
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/31 Aug 2017
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SESSION BEERS

by ANDY CROUCH FROM NEAR OBSCURITY to something to be laughed at to rising phenomenon to mainstream stability, session beer has experienced a roller coaster of emotions on its way to general acceptance among beer drinkers.  Americans have never been great about limiting their alcohol consumption or even spending much...
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/02 Aug 2017
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THE KIR ROYALE

PINK LADY’S ENDANGERED COCKTAIL OF THE MONTH 1O YEARS can seem to pass quickly, and if you’re a LUPEC Boston gal, you might just one day wake up and realize you’ve been spreading the gospel of the well-made cocktail for a decade.  Cheers to how far we’ve come! One of...
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/02 Aug 2017
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A Model of Cooperation – Produttori del Barbaresco

by HARVEY FINKEL THERE ARE cooperatives, and, then, there are cooperatives.  This might be especially true in Italy, where I have visited industrial-sized wineries out of Chaplin’s Modern Times, whose watery emanations used to be served free on tourist-class international flights, and have marveled at others – blessed is the...
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