Dave Miller’s 2018 Holiday Wine Guide
Your guide to getting the right wine for your 2018 holidays. A few years back we did a little post on wines for the holidays. I thought it would be […]
Your guide to getting the right wine for your 2018 holidays. A few years back we did a little post on wines for the holidays. I thought it would be […]
I’ve recently written about the up and coming wine region in Central Mexico. It’s an area loosely defined as in and around Queretaro, San Miguel Allende, Tequisquiapan and Ezekiel Montes. 20 years ago this area wasn’t even on a wine lovers map. But you could’ve said that about the Guadalupe […]
For years the Valle de Guadalupe has been the center of the wine world in Mexico. Is that about to change? I first went to Baja California in the spring […]
Here’s the bare bones… Susan Coss, Max Garrone and their team from Mezcalistas put on a great event Sunday in San Diego. Held at an expansive site called Bread & […]
No trip to the wine region of Queretaro will be complete without visiting one of the local artisan queserias. This area, known as Ezekiel Montes and Tequisquipan is dotted by dozens of wineries and cheese houses. It’s also a foodies delight. Prepare yourself for an adventure as you sample these […]
I’ve been rumbling around this region of Mexico since the early 1990’s. For awhile, I think I knew every pothole on both routes to get to Ensenada from Tijuana. While I get there less frequently these days, my love affair with Mexico started in this region and the cities of […]
Wine and cheese are two words usually associated with places like Napa Valley and France, not the dry dusty climes of Baja California. But that is exactly where I was […]
We’ve been asked many times how we do our mezcal tastings. So let’s pull the curtain back a little and give you the skinny. First, all of our tastings are done by Ed Draves. Ed has spent many years in the wine business, selling, buying, tasting and everything in between. […]
Some of the best things in life are found close to home. In the case of Ed Draves, our resident taster and identifier of those hidden flavors in mezcal, that means Western New York. For years Ed has been the “wine guy” at Premier Wine and Spirits. He’s also the […]
Bracketed by Memorial Day and Labor Day, and with a little 4th of July in the center, summer is grilling season here in the United States. That means it’s time to get your barbecue cleaned up and prepared for a good stretch of home grilling. Unfortunately, if you are like […]