The word “crush”, in wine terms, refers to pressing grapes after they have been harvested in order to extract all the lovely qualities out of them for our sipping pleasure. The carbonated beverage, Grape Crush, brings up memories of sweet, candied soda pop…the sticky stuff that makes childhood dreams come true. “Crushing it”, an equally Continue Reading →
Author: Sarah Wolcott
Wine’s Sense of Place – The American Viticultural Area
There is a lot of hard work that goes into producing that bottle of wine you are thinking of plucking off the retail shelves for tonight’s dinner…as a libation derived from one of the world’s oldest ways of life, wine is fundamentally a byproduct of farming (and of course, fermentation…). And farming doesn’t just happen Continue Reading →