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 […]
5 Mezcal Everyone Needs to Experience… with Gilbert Marquez of Mezcal Ilegal
I was recently at Mexico in a Bottle, the “biggest, baddest” mezcal tasting event in North America put on by the Mezcalistas team of Susan Coss and Max Garrone. Gilbert Marquez of Mezcal Ilegal was also there. For those of you not familiar with Ilegal, just know this… they’ve made […]
Ed Draves Samples… Freixenet Wines of Queretaro
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 […]
Mezcal! The Importance of Being There.
By Ed Draves One of the great perks of working in the wine industry is world travel. I’ve traveled to wineries and tasted wines across New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, Germany […]
Mezcal Tasting 101… how we do it!
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. […]
Ed Draves Samples… El Buho Mezcal!
Ed Draves of Premier Wine and Spirits, our resident “official” mezcal taster, as if we ourselves don’t also imbibe, really fell for this mezcal. Whether it was the stylized owl, the price point, the taste, or a combination of all of those, he is very high on El Buho as […]
5 New York Wines Everyone Needs to Experience… with Ed Draves of Premier Wines
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 […]
