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Red Stripe Celebrates 100 Years With Commemorative Reggae EP

To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Red Stripe beer producer and Jamaican brewer, Desnoes and Geddes Limited (D&G), Red Stripe has collaborated with LA based, 5-time Grammy Award winning Jamaican Musician & Producer Paul “Pablo” Stennett and seven Jamaican artists to create original singles representing the evolution of Jamaican...
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Horizon Beverage Brings Broken Shed Vodka To Massachusetts

Broken Shed Distilleries announced that Horizon Beverage Company has expanded their relationship with Broken Shed and will now be distributing, the award winning, GMO, additive- free, sugar free and gluten-free vodka from New Zealand in Massachusetts effective August 1, 2018. New Zealand’s Broken Shed Vodka with its distinctive character and...
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Celebrating Ten Years

When brothers Ed and Rob Gillooly received the license for their newly minted Baystate Wine & Spirits on St. Patrick’s Day in 2OO5 they figured it must be a good sign. As a small company looking to break into the predominantly big business of wholesale wine and liquor distribution, the...
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ENDANGERED COCKTAIL OF THE MONTH: THE TIPPERARY

EVERYONE feels a little Irish this month, what with St. Patrick’s Day being one of Massachusetts’ favorite drinking holidays! It also happens to be a for-real holiday in the Bay State: Evacuation Day, established to commemorate the day when British troops evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War. It ended an...
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STOUT

AROUND St. Patrick’s Day, one of the Holy Grails of beer sales holidays in the United States, thoughts turn to Ireland and beer. In writing about Irish beers over the last decade, the story used to be that brewing was a dying trade. The modern day story has long been...
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TAMING TANNAT IN THE LAND OF PAINTED BIRDS

ASKED to explain why wine can capture and hold the interest – even the fascination – of so many and so disparate a spectrum, I thought that, after the good tastes, social lubrication, food enhancement, and health promotion, it must be the infinite variety.  There is always another vineyard, another...
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CHABLIS

IF YOU’RE looking for classic Chardonnay that tastes bone dry, minerally and understated in flavor, there is little to compare with the wines of Chablis. While the historic village technically lies within greater Burgundy, it is a terroir unto itself, separated from the rest of the illustrious French wine region...
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