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      Wohlfert Distilling Craft Spirits Ride on Prohibition Heritage

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      Why Low-Alcoholic Wine May Be Increasing & An Adult Beverage Option; Even No-Alc can be Tasty

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      Santa Rosa Craft Beer and Food Take Center Stage

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      Downtown Healdsburg for Fine Wine and Gourmet Dining

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      Enjoy Cancun-adjacent Isla Mujeres at Coco B Villas

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      Bardessono the Ultimate Retreat in Yountville

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      Montréal Chefs Star in the Culinary World

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    Cloudburst: a moment of reflection, a moment of quality

    David Rogers
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    On a visit to Margaret River in Western Australia, with its popular and well-established, high-volume wineries, we find one winemaker — an American — who is taking a different turn by producing low-output wines of unique garagiste appeal. Though he is already widely acclaimed outside Australia, given his philosophy and approach, local acceptance may

    Riesling Goes With Everything, and Sixteen Other Rules for Pairing Wine with Food (A Slideshow)

    Meg Houston Maker
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    (Editor's note - This is a slideshow posting of a Palate Press article from 2012.) I led a wine tasting once for students at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. I like pouring for twenty-somethings because they’re so eager to taste and talk about wine. With B-schoolers like these, I’ll also cover

    Ten Easy Tips to Make Delicious Cocktails (a slideshow)

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    I used to make lousy cocktails. Not anymore. I didn’t go to a bartending class. Instead, I just paid attention to what good bartenders do, and took a few simple steps. Now I’m going to share. This is not going to be a cocktail geek piece. These are things anyone

    To peat or not to peat?

    Roger Morris
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    Whisky doesn’t have to smell and taste smoky to be Scotch. In fact, some very fine blends and single malts have little or no traces of the smoldering peat that for centuries has imparted its distinct smokiness during the malting process. All the same, I believe all Scotch master distillers

    Trending: the English Sparkling Thing

    Becky Sue Epstein
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    English sparkling wine is now a thing. Unless you’re a sparkling wine nut like me, you might not have noticed. In fact it’s more than just a thing: English sparkling wine has been beating French Champagne in blind tastings every year, lately. Why? And why now? At some point in

    The Bitter Cup of Brexit

    Gary Thomas
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    2016 was heralded as the year of English wine. In March the British government and the English wine industry announced the ambitious goal of increasing wine exports from 250,000 bottles a year to 2.5 million bottles by 2020. The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) predicted that UK

    What We’re Drinking – Eric Bordelet Calvados Single Cask 18yr

    David Honig
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    If I were an apple, this is how I would want to give my life. This batch was distilled byHenri Bernard Beudin in 1997 and put up in used Chenin Blanc barrels. This particular cask was hand selected by former sommelier and famed cider maker Eric Bordelet. It was bottled

    10 Summer wines from Southern Italian Indigenous Grapes

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    It is always worth a trip to the southern regions of Italy, particularly in summer when nature is in full bloom. This season I was invited to participate as a judge in Radici del Sud, the Exhibition of Southern Italian wines (organized by the Association Propapilla) which was hosted by
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