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/26 Feb 2009
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Paso Robles

PasoRobles is an Approved Viticultural Area AVA, positioned halfway down the huge Central Coast AVA as it stretches from just south of San Francisco to just north of Los Angeles. Its 24 square mile surface is positioned at the northern edge of San Luis Obispo County and contains 26,OOO acres...
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/26 Feb 2009
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Vouvray

The Loire flows in beauty for 6OO miles. It heads north from its source deep in the interior of France just to the west of Burgundy, then turns west toward the sea just beyond the first pair of its notable wine-growing areas, Pouilly-sur-Loire and Sancerre. Its mouth is in Brittany,...
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/26 Feb 2009
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Irish Beer

I was leaving on a trip to Europe not long ago and stopped in the Jet Rock bar at Philadelphia International to while away the time I’d wasted by being at security the advised two hours before my departure. I dropped anchor perused the taps, and made my decision. I...
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/26 Feb 2009
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Endangered Cocktail

endangeredcocktailOF  THE  MONTH To help “breed raise, and release nearly extinct drinks into the wild” the ladies of LUPEC Boston have created the Endangered Cocktail of the Month series.  Each month they select a classic cocktail to revive, share a little background on (both here and on their blog), and...
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/01 Feb 2009
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Cordials and Liqueurs

Flavor Still the primary focus. This past year brought with it the continued revival of old classics as well as the ongoing development of new brands on both the domestic and import side.Think the economy has industry folks worried? Think again. The over-whelming sentiment is that spirits are cloaked in...
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/01 Feb 2009
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The Dick Cantwell Interview

Born in Germany and raised in the Upper Midwest Dick Cantwell developed his passion for beer as a homebrewer living and writing in the Boston area in the late 198Os.  By 199O he decided to move once again, this time to Seattle, where he became the head brewer for the...
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/26 Jan 2009
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The Underappreciated Carmenere Grape

After making quite a splash as one of the promising new things under the sun in the late 199Os the Carmenere grape remains quite a mystery to most wine lovers. The flagship of a resurgent Chilean wine industry, with its impeccable Bordeaux blood lines, this was a variety that was...
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/26 Jan 2009
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Marimar Torres Estate

Marimar Torres Estate was first planted in 1986. The first Chardonnay vintage was 1989 Pinot Noir 1992. The winery came on line in 1992. Marimar’s brother Miguel who leads the Torres empire in Spain and Chile, helped her get started. (Don Miguel died in 1991.) The first vineyard, also the...
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/26 Jan 2009
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A First for New Zealand

This trend reversal should be understood in the context of a major overall downturn in the decades long pattern of increasingly more imported wines from all sources being shipped to the US as well as meteoric rises for several years running from New Zealand. The overall import decline in 2OO8...
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