Posted in Wine on May 30th, 2011
There is a strange, new law in Austria: Any one who does NOT eat Wiener Schnitzel with a glass of Gruner Veltliner on their first night in the country, is to be dragged from their hotel and flogged publicly in the town square. Luckily, we had advance notice of this law.
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Posted in Beer, Reviews, Spirits, Wine on Feb 2nd, 2011
Forget wine. Forget beer. They’re mere newbies in the world of fermented beverages. Mead is the patriarch, the original, the granddaddy that launched the human fascination with alcohol. But, strangely enough, it’s fallen out of fashion. How could this be? This was the drink of Aristotle and the Ancient Greeks; the drink of the brave […]
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