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/11 Mar 2019
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Regatta Expands Into Craft Mixer Category

Regatta, creator of Regatta Classic Bermuda Stone Ginger Beer, announced the evolution of the brand’s product offerings into the dynamic craft mixers category. Beginning in March 2019, Regatta Dry Citrus Sparkling Tonic, Regatta Royal Oak Ginger Ale and Regatta Pacific Sea Salt Club Soda join flagship Regatta Ginger Beer and...
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/01 Jun 2016
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EAT, DRINK AND BE HEALTHY . . . AND LIVE LONGER

by HARVEY FINKEL, MD A QUESTION OCCURRED to me recently during a discussion of a related subject with colleagues of the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research.  How do we know that the healthfulness of alcohol is enhanced by drinking during meals, often almost assumed as a given?  What is...
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/01 Jun 2016
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THE BUZZ ON COFFEE BEERS

by Lew Bryson ONE OF THE FIRST COFFEE BEERS I ever had was Berkshire Brewing’s COFFEEHOUSE PORTER, made with organic coffee from Dean’s Beans, in Orange, Massachusetts. The idea of a porter with coffee in it was irresistible, and the beer delivered on every bit of that. Coffeehouse is still...
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/01 Jun 2016
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SAINT CROIX RUM FIX

PINK LADY’S ENDANGERED COCKTAIL OF THE MONTH SAINT CROIX RUM FIX by Pink Lady AS THE DAYS GROW LONGER and warmer our thoughts turn to porch drinks – the type of cocktails you want to sip on a veranda as you watch the sun go down. Or, if you live...
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/01 Jun 2016
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ISRAELI WINE

by Sandy Block, MW 1 Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine,...
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/02 May 2016
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ANDEAN JUICE THE WINES of RUTINI

By Harvey Finkel AS YOU READ this account, the harvest is winding down in the principal vineyards of Mendoza Province. Here, we’ll dip into the wines of Rutini, a leading Argentine producer. Not without reason have Argentine wines surged in recent years to the forefront of our attention. Companies like...
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/02 May 2016
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ADIEU, PETIT CIRCONFLEXE

By Harvey Finkel THE FRENCH, ever vigilant to declare draconic decrees to preserve the purity of their language, may be about to out-outrage all recorded outrages. As reported in the philology column of The Economist of February 27, French spelling is to be simplified in time for the coming fall...
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/02 May 2016
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THE HEARST COCKTAIL

by Pink Lady BERNARD DE VOTO once wrote: “The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.” He was writing about the martini, of course, but if you’ve never twirled sweet vermouth and gin in your mixing glass we recommend you give it a go. Add a dash of...
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/02 May 2016
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THE BEERS of SUMMER

by Andy Crouch MOTHER NATURE blessed Massachusetts and the Northeast with a relatively mild winter following one that few would forget. We avoided SUV sized drifts, endless yards of hard packed white snow and seemingly never-ending weeks of brutal cold. Having endured even a relatively favorable winter, minds and hearts...
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/01 Apr 2016
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DINING AND DRINKING WITH DROUHIN

by HARVEY FINKEL SHORT OF VISITING the vineyards – for instruction and pleasure – nothing beats sharing food and wines with their talented creator, especially in company of like-minded diners.  The Massachusetts chapter of the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, the Burgundian educational and chowder society, staged such an evening...
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