“[Grechetto is] a mineral-like, herbal, almost citrus grape that pairs well with the artichokes and asparagus range of vegetable dishes as well as going great — ironically enough, coming from its land locked home in Central Italy …”
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“If Basic City in Waynesboro ever stops making good IPAs, it will clearly be a sign of the End Times, so capable do they seem …”
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“Eugene Rondenbach was the Rodenbach that set his brewery on its path. He developed the mixed fermentation, foeder-aged red sour ale that they are known for today. Go, Eugene! However, the Roeselare brewery (west of Ghent, south of Bruges) was actually founded the generation before (in 1821) by Alexander, Gregoor, Pedro, and Amalia. Though the Rodenbachs are now ghosts of history both in Roselare and in the brewery that still bears their name, this beer is named after Alexander, released in 1986 in honor of this 200th birthday …”
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“People believe that winemaking started in Bardolino in Roman times. However, although we can find people writing about wine in Bardolino in the 15th century, people don’t start calling the region’s light-bodied reds made from local grapes like Corvina, Rondinella, and Molinara “Bardolinos” until the 19th Century. Today (and since 1984), a couple of miles outside of the town of Bardolino, in the shadow of Mount Baldo, is where you’ll find Azienda Agricola Le Fraghe, run by Matilde Poggi …”
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“Ah! We do love a good American style Pale Ale. We also love a good beer brewed with spelt. Imagine our joy when we saw Charleston, SC’s Charles Towne Fermantory offering up both in the same brew …”
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“There’s a good reason why we keep coming back to this beer year after year. This king can live a long time as far as we’re concerned.”
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“Pinot Grigio grows throughout Italy, but the best Pinot Grigio is grown in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region up in the northeast Alpine foothills. There, where the snowcapped mountains rise in the distance. winemakers consider Pinot Grigio to be a high end grape …”
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“On their website, Jack’s Abby calls the Shipping Out of Boston a kellerbier with a ‘deeply golden’ color. Well, that must’ve been an earlier version, ‘cause this sucker is a dark amber lager …”
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“We continue to shine a spotlight onto our proud pumpkin beer selection. Every year we try to find a pumpkin ale that we’ve never tried before, and this year it comes in the form of a cream ale from Caboose Brewing Company in Vienna, Va. …”
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“… smooth and lush … Think of this wine as a baby Châteauneuf du Pape.”
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“Three Notch’d Brewing Company, Boston Beer Company; Head brewer Dave Warwick and head brewer Megan Parisi — together! In our little town! … Just when you thought someone couldn’t make an NEIPA stand out anymore …”
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“Hardywood Park Craft brewery puts a different spin on the pumpkin ale. Every year, they put out their very tasty Farmhouse Pumpkin — a Wallonian style Saison brewed with pumpkin and spices.”
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[The Castaign Family] now has 54 hectares and makes wines that are meant to be easy to drink and to share. All have names of various creatures. Aux Valses Des Papillons means ‘the waltz of the butterflies,’ exactly the kind of name you want a ballet suite or a southwestern French wine to have. This organically grown three-way white blend is exactly as bright and fresh as the name suggests …”
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“Harold Budd was an acolyte of ambient music who was one of those “musician’s musicians” — your kids aren’t listening to him… but people like XTC’s Andy Partridge, the Cocteau Twins, and …Brian Eno were. Of course, Budd also had a loyal following of non-industry fans. Among them are the people at Brooklyn’s Grimm Artisanal Ales, who brewed this beer in memoriam …”
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If you’re not done with Oktoberfest, don’t worry, neither are we. The Ayinger Oktober Fest-Märzen is one of our favorites …
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“This wine is elegant, classic, and might be one of our top values this year!”
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“This brew is Evil Twin’s flagship West Coast Style IPA., but to us it’s got a little ‘east’ thrown in — not East Coast, a little farther east than that …”
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“Oktoberfest continues in Munich, so it continues here at Market St. Wine. Welcome to another of our Oktoberfest beers! Each year, we look for a new and interesting Oktoberfest beer, one we’ve never carried before. This year, it comes from Warwick, NY — the Drowned Lands Winnow …”
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“This wine is 50% Roussanne, 30% Grenache Blanc, 20% Viognier, all organically farmed. Thought to be native to the northern Rhône, Roussanne is a key white wine grape there. It is much less a player in southern Rhône wines, which makes it notable that the De Mercurios decided to give it the lion’s share of this white …”
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“For all the ‘throwbacks’ and ‘memory lanes,’ THIS is a West Coast Style IPA!”
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