I always feel badly when I don’t like a product. Well, I don’t feel badly not to like it, I feel badly to tell everyone I don’t like it. However, I have to give an honest opinion. That said, this product is not my favorite. Sometimes I get the impression that marketers assume that anything…
Category Archives: Drinkables
JAMES MORELAND’s “Perfect Pairings” Aboard Bombay Sapphire’s Luxury Train
The setting sun along the California coastline+ A luxury train + an exclusive dinner party with Tara Weaver, a personal chef with celebrity clientele + James Moreland, Bombay Sapphire’s Master Mixologist. A dozen of us boarded the Creative Charters Luxury dining and lounge car, attached to the back of an Amtrak train, en route from…
Caio Prosecco!
Just as true champagne comes from a specific region of France, and cava is the “champagne” of Spain, Prosecco is a variety of white grape grown around 15 small towns on the hills of Veneto, in the Treviso province (north of Venice) at the feet of the Alps. This Italian sparkling wine has long been…
Barboursville Vineyards: Old-world Italia in Modern Virginia
Boasting multiple award-winning vintages, Barboursville Vineyards is one of the most prestigious wine producers in Virginia. This estate winery is located on 830 acres of beautiful rolling hills, near the Blue Ridge Mountains. Currently boasting 125 acres of vineyards, expansion is expected. In 1976, the Zonin family, of Italy, was the first in the state…
The Battle Over Pisco: Sour Grapes?
Pisco is the “national drink” of Chile. Or, is it that of Peru? What the heck is pisco, you ask? And, what is all the fuss about? The word “pisco” comes from Quechua (“qheshwa,”) an indigenous language of the Andean region. Formerly the official language of the Inca Empire, it is still spoken by approximately…
Bottoms Up, Down Under $20 per Bottle
Slightly larger than Texas, with a climate similar to that of California, the State of South Australia produces over 60% of all Australian wines. Australia’s premium cool-climate wine region, the first plantings date back to 1839, just three years after the colony was settled. Today, more than 180 grape growers dot the rolling, grassy landscape….
