Beverage of the Week (BOW) – Archives
Tongue Dancer Wines Chardonnay Russian River Valley 2023 is a wine that we have been dying to tell you about. We first tasted it back in August (2025). Typically, this wine would have been released in the fall, but this wine required a bit of patience. It’s restrained yet opulent with layer after...
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Matilda is the ideal Beer to present to your “wine only” friends. They will be won over by this Beer’s complex and unique flavors. They may even be shocked that Beer can be like this, while all of us Beer fans have known what great beer is capable of being for some time. The brewery says Matil...
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La Fin Du Monde, which translates to “The End of the World,” was launched by Unibroue in 1994. The name does not signal the end of civilization, but it takes its name from the belief that early explorers to this part of North America exclaimed that they had indeed reached the end of the known wo...
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Forget everything that you know about Gin! Of course, we expect nothing but perfection from Christian Drouin and with their fabulous "Le Gin" perfection is delivered. Gin drinkers are are an opinionated crew for sure and this very expressive Gin may fall outside of their expectations. For us, it's m...
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Of the hundreds of Trappist Monasteries in the world only 14 (six in Belgium) currently brew beer commercially. Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle was opened in 1836 in the Westmalle Abbey in Belgium. Westmalle crafts three beers — the Double that we feature here, as well as a Triple and a bee...
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This beautiful and complex cider is made with a blend of 30 different apple varieties. The blend is comprised of 70% bittersweet and bitter apples, 20% sweet apples, and 10% acidic apples. The apples are carefully crushed and then pressed to extract the juice. The juice is quickly sent to the fermen...
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The great Beers from Ayinger have been available in the US for more than two decades. Our BOW, the great Jahrhundert-Bier was first created in 1978 to celebrate the brewery's 100th anniversary. Recently it has been made available in cask in the US and if your local beer bar offers the Jahrhundert-Bi...
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This beautiful and complex cider is made with a blend of many different pear varieties including Plant de Blanc, Muscadet, Avenelle, and Poire de Grise. The pears are carefully crushed and then pressed to extract the juice. The juice is quickly sent to the fermenters where it is allowed to ferment v...
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The classic Duvel Belgian Strong Golden Ale is among the world’s elite beers. Duvel gets its iconic golden color from barley germinated for five days in the malt house and slowly kilned to create the complex flavors and color. Duvel obtains its typical bitterness by adding various varieties of aro...
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The Abita Christmas Ale is a brown ale that is brewed with six types of malted barley and fermented with American Ale yeast. It is brewed with pale malt, as well as a combination of Caramel, Biscuit, Munich, and chocolate malts. It is hopped and dry-hopped with Columbus, Cascade, Centennial, and Ama...
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This holiday Ale always seems to run dry before Santa makes his rounds so be sure to get your Great Lakes Brewing Christmas Ale fast. If you are not fortunate enough to live in one of the brewery’s nine states of distribution, find a friend that is and have them send you some. Gift-wrapping and a...
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The 2024 vintage represents our fifth look at Druid’s Red, but in reality, it’s the second vintage of the new Druid’s Trio executed to their vision. Druid’s Red is made with classic grapes found in the Rhône and Southwest France — this wine has the character of a generous Côtes du Rhône...
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The 2023 vintage marks the ninth edition of Tongue Dancer Wines’ superb Bacigalupi Vineyard Chardonnay. This wine is consistently fantastic, but the 2023 vintage is surely out of character. This wine is typically rich and opulent, but due to the cold weather in 2023, its many gifts were delivered...
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The 2024 vintage marks our fifth iteration of Druid’s White, but in reality, it’s the second vintage of the new Druid’s Trio, executed to their vision. The 2024 edition is made with a blend of 48% Grenache Blanc, 17% Bourboulenc, 14% Roussanne, 11% Vermentino, 5% Clairette Blanche, and 5% Picp...
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The 2023 Esprit de Tablas is a charming, nuanced homage to Châteauneuf du Pape, made in Paso Robles by Tablas Creek. As their flagship red blend, it consistently impresses, never failing to rate at 96 points or greater in our 11 years of evaluations. It is crafted from a blend of 33% Mourvedre, 31%...
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