Louis Nicaise & Hervé Brisson The first known depiction of Champagne on canvas comes in a 1735 painting entitled “The Oyster Lunch”, which is exactly what it sounds like: a tableau of foppish be-wigged aristocrats...
Gin is very much a global spirit, with no geographic limitations. The craft spirits boom of the last decade has flooded the market with hundreds, even thousands of new gins. But while brands from the...
Italy has over 250 indigenous varieties of grapes, and the majority of the red grapes are made into rosé (rosato). However, Italy only produces 10% of the world’s rosés, which is probably why you don’t...
Last year, I was lucky enough to visit Frey Ranch Farm and Distillery in Fallon, Nevada. Longtime club members might recall that we first featured a single barrel from Frey back in 2021. Their reputation...
Black Hammer Brewing After last month's “trip” to Belgium, we’re keeping it extremely local this month and featuring a selection of beer from San Francisco brewery Black Hammer Brewing. Black Hammer Brewing focuses on superbly...
NEW ZEALAND On September 25, 1819, the Reverend Samuel Marsden, chaplain to New South Wales in Australia, planted a grape vine in the soils of Stone Store, KeriKeri in the Bay of Islands at the...
