by Sean Ludford | May 29, 2018 | Cocktails, Random
Just when you thought that all of the fun had been exhausted, along comes Negroni Week! What is Negroni Week you ask? Essentially during Negroni Week, June 4-10, bars around the world will mix their favorite Negroni variations, donating a portion of proceeds from each one sold to a charity of their choice. You can find bars participating in this year’s Negroni Week by...
by Sean Ludford | May 29, 2018 | News Feed
telegraph.co.uk/ – David Chazan 27 MAY 2018 Hailstorms have devastated thousands of acres of prime Bordeaux vineyards, prompting the French government to promise support for winegrowers, some of whom have lost their entire crop. Cyril Giresse, a winegrower, said hailstones “the size of pigeons’ eggs” destroyed grape buds and left vines bare on Saturday. “The storm lasted only about 15 minutes, but in some...
by Sean Ludford | May 23, 2018 | News Feed
BY RAFAELA FERRAZ – atlasobscura.com In the small Town of Boticas, Portugal, a centuries-old tradition of making “wine of the dead” lives on. Despite its macabre name, this libation has less to do with death than it does with burial. In 19th-century Portugal, during a time of French invasions, people interred scores of bottles. The move, done out of fear that the wine would...
by Sean Ludford | May 16, 2018 | Wine
The majority of the great old Port houses of the Douro have spoken and 2016 is indeed a vintage. The declaration of a vintage year in the world of Port is still a marking of an achievement and by extension cause for celebration. Rightly so the collective Port producers have been judicious with their declarations naming it a vintage year three to four times...
by Sean Ludford | May 14, 2018 | News Feed
Fearghal O’Connor Independent.ie Rademon Estate Distillery is shrugging off the threat of Brexit and preparing to take a whole new direction later this year with the launch of a single malt Irish whiskey. The Crossgar, Co Down-based team, led by wife and husband Fiona and David Boyd-Armstrong, has already made a big splash in just four years with Shortcross Gin, Northern Ireland’s first modern...