This Distillery Named Its Rye After the Cocktail It’s Built For
BevFluence Terroir Campaign: “R” is for Rye Tuthilltown Distillery, in Gardiner, New York, bottles its rye as Hudson Manhattan Rye — a name that states its intended use directly rather than leaving it to bartenders to figure out through trial and error the way most whiskey brands force drinkers to guess at cocktail applications from […]
BevFluence TERROIR Campaign – “I” is for Italian Varietals: Puglia
Puglia, the sun-drenched region that forms the heel of Italy’s boot, is home to a diverse wine culture shaped by warm Mediterranean conditions, coastal influences, and a wealth of indigenous grape varieties. Much of the region’s identity is found in Salento, the southern peninsula between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, where wineries such as Cantele, […]
Sicily’s Only DOCG Comes from Blending Two Grapes That Don’t Grow in the Same Kind of Soil
Sicily spent decades known for bulk production and its comeback runs almost entirely through one still-active volcano. On Etna’s northern and eastern slopes, above 1,000 meters elevation, decomposed basaltic lava rock and volcanic ash produce Nerello Mascalese wines pale enough in color and high enough in acid that serious tasters reach for Pinot Noir and […]
California’s Grenache Blanc Has a Founding Document
California’s Grenache Blanc didn’t happen by accident. In the late 1980s, Tablas Creek Vineyard imported the cuttings directly from Château de Beaucastel in the Southern Rhône and planted them in Paso Robles — a documented transplant with an actual paper trail, not a case of an American producer independently discovering a European grape and reverse-engineering […]
