Category Archives: What We’re Reading

Smoke-tainted California grapes find new life as vodka Nicolas Quille, chief winemaking and operations manager for Crimson Wine Group, partnered with Hanger 1 Vodka, which turned the wine made from smoke-tainted grapes into vodka.  It’s ““a gorgeous vodka that is very … Continue reading →

A Visit to a Clydesdale Farm Anheuser-Busch may not use mares in a hitch, but the Martins do. Clydesdale mares make great pulling horses, and they also produce little Clydesdales. “I’m a firm believer that the cheapest part of horse … Continue reading →

A New Era for American Sparkling Wine As emerging and legacy domestic sparkling wine producers alike invest in quality and ageability, the U.S. market is ready to embrace a wider array of home-grown bubbly. (SevenFifty Daily)

The Pilgrims liked beer, but probably were not drunk on it at the first Thanksgiving Anheuser-Busch ran advertisements in 1908 touting beer as the drink of “Our Pilgrim Fathers” and in the 1930s adopted a campaign that claimed “It Was … Continue reading →

Plans to transform Titanic Pump-House into whiskey distillery and tourism site given the green light The listed building in the heart of Belfast’s Titanic Quarter, along with its neighbouring dry dock, first opened in 1911 and is the world’s only … Continue reading →