OREGON BREWERIES Oregon has a long history with beer. Shortly after the first European-Americans started arriving in 1843, breweries were already starting to pop up. Brewing was a staple of the early US expansion into...
Summer Vacation Rosé With our cold and grey summer in full effect, it’s nice to get away to somewhere warm, or at the least enjoy a nice rosé from a sunny locale. This month we...
Champagne is so internationally famous, such a universal shorthand for all things quality, luxury and convivial (off the top of my head: Miller Hi-Life ‘the champagne of beers’; Churchill’s quip that meeting FDR for the...
When we talk about American Whiskey, the conversation is often focused on whiskey made in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana. In fact, whiskey is made in all 50 states, including right here in California! Old Potrero...
LIGURIA Though arguably most associated with France, the Riviera - as concept, aspiration, and actuality - originates in Liguria, in northwestern Italy. The word itself is Italian for “coastline,” and was first applied to the...
South Africa The southern tip of the African continent boasts such incredible conditions for making wine that only centuries worth of humanity’s absolute worst ideas and impulses running amok could have prevented it from becoming...
