When Woodchuck Hard Cider first launched in Proctorsville, Vermont thirty years ago, the beverage business had a vastly different look and feel. This was before the craft beer and spirits boom; few drinkers had ever even heard the abbreviation IPA, and it would be decades before anyone could tell you what RTD stood for. And
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Amenia, New York is a quiet town of around 4,000 residents, situated less than a 2-hour drive north of NYC. It might as well be a world away. For city folks eyeing an ideal urban retreat, this Hudson Valley hideaway holds the ticket in the form of Troutbeck. Once a private estate, the stone-clad luxury
If you have an extra $275,000 lying around, The Dalmore has a deal for you: the brand just unveiled The Dalmore Decades 5 Piece Collection, a one-of-a kind, collection of five whiskies spanning five decades. The price tag: $275k. “Over the past 50 years, I have kept a watchful eye over our superlative inventory of rare
Anyone slightly tuned into the zeitgeist has spent the last few years watching hard seltzer’s meteoric rise. Brands like White Claw and Truly reign, as the category raked in U.S. sales of $4.3 billion. But hard seltzer is fizzing out, experts say. Boston Beer Co. SAM pulled guidance, and Molson Coors TAP axed its Coors-branded, beer-based seltzer. While hard
This Denver tycoon defied convention to crash the gates of construction, fast food and Major League Baseball. It’s a long way from her family’s two-room adobe house without indoor plumbing. Linda Alvarado wends her way, politician-style, to her seat at Major League Baseball’s 2021 All-Star Game, pausing to hug or chat up everyone from Roy
As a child, Debbie Wei Mullin was surrounded by the influences of her Vietnamese heritage. As she began her entrepreneurial journey later in life, she turned to that heritage to launch Copper Cow Coffee, a direct-to-consumer Vietnamese Coffee that is launching nationwide in Whole Foods. I sat down with Debbie, the CEO and Founder of Copper Cow
A sweet young woman walked in a vineyard side by side with her father, a man who had been her hero from as far back as she could remember, in vineyards that sat at almost 5,000 feet in elevation among the foothills of the Andes Mountains in Argentina. As the cold weather sent a chill
‘Tis the season. Whiskey fans the world over are eagerly awaiting the many special releases ready to hit shelves as the holidays approach. A perennial favorite among them is the Master’s Collection from Woodford Reserve. This annual one-off gives master distiller Chris Morris the opportunity to play around with everything from the corn to the cask.
True Scotch enthusiasts think of fall as a wonderful time to be alive—not because of leaf peeping and pumpkin picking excursions, mind you. But because it’s the time of year that Diageo, one of the world’s largest spirits companies, unveils its much-anticipated annual Special Releases collection—an initiative that started in 2001. This year the theme
Dr. Olga Barbosa is a biologist and ecologist, an expert on biodiversity in viticulture, which she says is “dependent on nature.” She recently contributed her perspective at a biodiversity roundtable arranged by Viña Tarapacá. The Chilean winery’s Fundo Rosario Estate vineyard is surrounded by the Altos de Cantillana range and the Maipo River, natural borders
Futuristic architecture reflects a new attitude about wine The wine region of Rioja in northern Spain is a terrific example of what’s old is new again. At 96 years old, she is the oldest Designation of Origin (DOC) in the country. But the current generation of winemaking rebukes that dusty image, making Rioja a hot
Farting is definitely not the worst thing that can happen when you have a lot of gas. In fact, farting may be the best thing. A case report published in the medical journal Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. showed how gas build-up in your intestines can be silent and deadly. In the case
Gifts for the wine lover in your life, including you! I’ve often thought that, like mothers and fathers have their own holidays, wine drinkers should have one, too. OK, there is National Wine Day on May 25, but that conflicts with too many competing events—the aforementioned parents plus all those grads and June brides. If
Scusi! Move over, France because Italy is coming after your cheese lovers! Italian cheese used to be somewhat of an obscurity—or defined only by its most popular entrants on the international market: Parmesan and mozzarella. Fine cheeses and those produced by local makers were closely held secrets or the domain of established restaurants, says New
Although it’s been a little over a decade since Red Rooster first opened its doors in Harlem, head chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson seems like he’s been a part of the local landscape for far longer. Helping cement his outsized stature is a steadfast devotion to the surrounding community. This often takes the shape of
Why pay a dietitian hundreds of dollars a session to tell you what to eat when you could just take yourself to dinner at Philadelphia’s latest show-stopping restaurant … one that offers menu suggestions based on your body type? At what appears to be the first high-end Ayurvedic herbal eatery of its kind, patrons of
To be clear: There are many very compelling wines in Sonoma right now in addition to the four that I describe below. These four do, however, take the pulse of Sonoma’s current goings-on. They are the wine equivalent of catching someone’s eye from across a crowded room. And, as I wrote in Part One of
Ready for some weekend wine? See if you can find these Sonoma wines (or, if not, their producers) on wine lists, restaurant shelves or online. They were four of the most compelling wines I tasted recently, when I visited northern California for the Sonoma County Wine Auction. 2018 Fort Ross Vineyard Pinot Noir from Gary
VIVANT is an innovative wine experience platform, the brainchild of Michael Baum, a Silicon Valley tech pioneer and serial entrepreneur. Baum was one of the founders of the software company Splunk (SPLK) who decided to follow his passion and get involved in a wine venture. A commitment to sustainability In 2014, this professed wine lover,
As the sun began to rise and shine its rays of warmth on the hot southern coast of Iran, a Range Rover started to drive towards the cooler areas of the country before the heat started to accumulate. In the backseat with his sleeping bag was a young civil engineer, Darioush Khaledi, who had started