I rarely leave San Francisco, except by plane, and the occasional trek north to wine country, so being able to get the tasting room experience without actually leaving the city would be a blessing.
Press Club has answered my lazy cry
As posted yesterday, I made a batch of nocino with TSB, but we also made Vin De Noix, a French walnut wine.
Vin de Noix
10 green walnuts, soaked overnight and quartered
500 ml vodka
1/2 c maple syrup
1/2 vanilla bean
2 cloves
2 orange slices
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Some people have a magic touch, and TSB‘s furtive fingers mix the meanest sangria I’ve ever tasted, but she also makes the process quick and simple, despite the complexities that other sangria masters claim the drink requires. The following are
Recently released by the Scandinavian Design Center, the Baggy Winecoat is a poorly named purse that holds the internal bag from boxed wine with a convenient pour spout and sturdy base for fashionable picnic drinking.
In this age of
As mentioned yesterday, a shorter version of this article is in the latest issue of Drink Me Magazine.
For most, wine cocktails are what we drank while backpacking across Europe at 19 years old – before we knew better.
I was asked to write a piece for Nirvino in Drink Me Magazine on making cocktails with wine. There’s a longer version of the article that I will post here tomorrow, but I wanted to give you
Xplorador is sending someone *cough*pick me*cough* to Chile to experience the harvest and production of their wines. A buddy shot this video while I was standing outside a bar last night, so I’m throwing my gorro into the ring.
I have fondest memories of drinking Sturm at Raschhofer Rossbräu, a bar/restaurant I frequented while living in Austria a decade ago, give or take a month. It’s an effervescent, not fully fermented red wine, which is cloudy and available only
Wine snobs incense me, and when they ask what flavors and smells I detect in a glass, I often opt to tell them I get a lot of dead yeast on the nose, distinct hints of vine fruit, and fermented
We’ve all been there, at a picnic or on a train, you remembered the bottle of wine, but not the corkscrew. If you’re at a construction site, the simple solution is to drive a screw into the cork and lever