“The LA-based online marketplace for health foods, Thrive Market announced a new addition to their offering last week: clean wines. Priced at under $20 a bottle and promised to be low-sulfite, Thrive Market co-founder Nick Green wants consumers to think about what...
“Mead was born 8,000 years ago, which pre-dates wine and beer by several thousand years, says author Fred Minnick in his book, Mead: The Libations, Legends, and Lore of History’s Oldest Drink (Running Press, 2018). It likely started simply. “Somebody left a pot of...
It's time to ditch your corkscrew. Canned wine isn't just a passing summer fad, it's a $45 million business, according to Nielson. Wine in cans with pull-tops instead of corks isn't new, but it has become a staple for young drinkers over the last few years and the...
One can now arguably say the winery has met its “rebellious spirit” goal with the release of Rebel Coast Cannabis Infused Sauvignon Blanc. With this wine, the winery adds a fourth to its list of “nos”: no alcohol (technically, less than 0.5% alcohol by volume). In...
“Rosé is a wine like any other. Some are good, even excellent. Some are mediocre, and some are sweet pink confections like the white zinfandels of the 1970s and ’80s. If you do care about the wine you drink, why settle for the bad stuff? Rosé can be wonderful. It can...
"The trend has been around long enough that some of the names, like albariño from Spain or grüner veltliner from Austria, are considered old hat by serious wine enthusiasts. Nowadays, the trendy names include juhfark, from Hungary; obaideh, from Lebanon; chasselas,...
“There’s often a divide between lovers of grapes and fans of grain. However, forward-thinking brewers and winemakers are finding common ground between these silently warring factions. Wine is now being made with hops, and a new crop of brewers have been using wine...
If you're obsessed with red wine (aren't we all?), you probably drink less of it in the summer and more of it in the winter. That's just how it goes: a glass of Pinot sounds better when cozied up by a fire than when sweating by a pool. Needing a warm-weather...
While “hop-pocalyptic” IPAs and boozy barrel-aged stouts may be kings of the American craft beer scene, two classic German styles have recently surged in popularity: Berliner weisse (pronounced “Bear-LEEH-nuh VICE-uh”) and gose (“GOES-uh”). The styles are tart, thirst...
Name all the colors of wine, and you’ll start with the obvious ones: red, white and pink, or rosé. Maybe you know about orange wine, or vinho verde — “green wine” from Portugal that’s technically a white, but we’ll let it slide. There’s even blue wine (we taste-tested...