'23 July Beer of the Month: Humble Sea

“Humble Sea started as a fiercely underfunded collaboration between 3 childhood friends from the Santa Cruz Mountains. The brewery was bootstrapped on a 1 barrel brewing system on cofounder Nick’s grandmother-in-law’s farm in rural Ben...

July '23 Italian Wine Club: Veneto

VENETO Last month I discovered, by accident and to my great surprise, that in seven years exploring the wine regions of Italy, this club has somehow never made it to Veneto. Which is weird; its...

July 2023 Wine of the Month

In the wine world, sometimes it seems like all roads do, in fact, lead to Rhône. Named for the Rhône river, which flows for 500 miles from the Swiss Alps to the Mediterranean, the Rhône...

July '23 Rose Club

Rosé is not just the trendy wine of the 21st century. When the Greeks planted the first grapevines in Provence 2,600 years ago, they were already making rosé! This was because wine-making techniques in those...

June Beer of the Month- Mad Fritz

Mad Fritz- One Valley; Two Passions “There is an old saying that ‘it takes a lot of beer to make great wines….’ Well, we can attest to it! After nearly 25 years of home brewing...

Q2 2023 Red Rogues Valpolicella/Ripasso/Amarone

VENETO Wine might not be the first thing you associate with Italy’s Veneto region. That’d likely be Venice, the capital, and one of the most famous places on the planet, endlessly mythologized, celebrated,  depicted -...