Organic, Biodynamic and Sustainable… Organic and biodynamic wines are increasing in the marketplace. Three labeling classifications are emerging on labels: Organic, Biodynamic and Sustainable. Sustainability is a great concept. It has to do with farming practices…often organic, transportation impact…how far and how much energy and resources does it take to get the product to the [...]
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An Article from David: Tulip Hill Winery
April 2, 2009
Tulip Hill Winery Budge Brown has been in farming for over fifty years. Although a University of California at Davis graduate, he rarely talks about his university education, but more of his soil, weather and vine education. Budge and his daughter Kristi had dreamed of making wine in Napa Valley for some time. The wines, [...]
An Article from David: It’s Valentine’s Day at World Beverage!
March 27, 2009
Happy Valentine’s Day Loveland! If ever there were a day and a place to drink wine, it would have to be Loveland on Valentine’s Day. As a young man, I avoided Valentine’s Day. If you had a girlfriend it was always agony to figure out what to get her and if you were girlfriendless and [...]
An Article from David: “Chilly Outside Means Chile in a Glass!”
March 27, 2009
Chilly Outside Means Chile in a Glass! The Garces Silva Family has been in the agricultural business for three generations and has been producing wines in the cool climate of the Leyda Valley of Chile for some time now. Out of their approximately 182 acres of grapevines, they set aside the fruit from 24.5 acres [...]
An Article from David
March 27, 2009
Bordered on the north and west by the Alps and also by Switzerland and France, Piedmont is a region of great wine heritage. The historical source of the great nebbiolo grape which is responsible for the fabulously long –aging Barolo and Barbaresco, Piedmont also produces great wines from Barbera, Dolcetto, Grignolino and “frizzante” Brachetto. Because [...]
An Article from David
March 27, 2009
This is Italian month at World Beverage (and we are tasting some fabulous Italian wines each Saturday from 3 to 6 pm.) I would be remiss if I did not write a little about one of my favorite grape varietals…Sangiovese (pronounced sahn-gee-oh-vase- ee). It is the principal grape in all Chianti wine produced in Tuscany, [...]
An Article from David
March 27, 2009
After the hectic holidays I love to settle into the house and cook and drink wine. Now that my kids have grown and are out of the house I do not need to make big meals and I often look to make a sauce or a series of condiments that I can put together with [...]
An Article from David
March 26, 2009
At our weekly wine tasting (which, by the way, are Saturdays from 3-6 p.m at our nice tasting table at the back of the store), we have been tasting through all of the major and not-so-major grape varietals on the planet. My intent in tasting one varietal at a time has been to develop an [...]
