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Expert Father’s Day Wine Pairings
As you get ready to light up the grill and celebrate Dear Old Dad – we reached out to Heinen’s Fine Foods Wine Director, Carlo Riggio for a few of his wine favorites guaranteed to make Sunday simply perfect. Just like Dad. For dads – and grilling in general I usually reach for a trusty Zinfandel. But lately I find myself captivated by the well crafted reds that are coming from Washington. Two fantastic, and nicely priced at under $25 a bottle are Browne Family Vinyard’s ‘Tribute’ or Precept...
What’s Trending & Where to Eat this Spring
There really wouldn't be drinking - without it's tasty counterpart eating! So to help inspire and enlighten here are some of the hot trends (and locations) shaping up your Spring & Summer dining. Just don't forget the wine! With More than half of the 50 restaurants in this season’s class of NRN"S Trending Tables cite their beverage programs as an aggressively important attraction for their guests. Whether it's wine in kegs, a well-curated beer list or cocktails made with soju, sherry,...
IWSB 2014 Press Materials
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The Art of Marketing Wine to Millennials
Baby boomers are still the biggest spenders when it comes to wine, but millennials are the fastest-growing group of wine drinkers, and their social-savvy ways, adventurous palates and quest for fun are driving shifts in both the kinds of wine being produced and where and how companies, restaurants and retailers are marketing wine to millennials. Wine accounts for about 20% of alcohol purchased by consumers age 21 to 34, up from 13% a decade ago, according to research compiled by Napa...
Neat: Pour Perfection
How to savor your wine for weeks at a time! For those looking to extend the life of their wine after the bottle has been opened, your answer has finally arrived. Enter Napa Technology’s Wine Station 3.0, “the world’s first intelligence-based, automated, temperature-controlled wine dispensing and preservation system.” Typically a big, robust red wine will last between one to five days after it’s opened. Now with the Wine Station that wine will stay fine for months, not days. The mad scientists...
Wine-by-the-glass & a Beer Bar
At the Tap Beer Bar you'll find 50 hand selected beers on tap and over 400 bottled beers to choose from. That's a lot of beer, but what about the wine? We all prefer wine over beer anytime and the Tap Beer Bar has us wine lovers covered with their wine-by-the-glass program. Their wine-by-the-glass program has a little bit of help. And that help is the WineStation by Napa Technology. The Tap has added a brand new 8 bottle WineStation to their bar. The WineStation is a wine dispensing and...
Wine Suggestions for Easter
Wines for Ham For ham, the best "tried and true" companion wines are, hands-down - a Riesling or a Gewürztraminer. Both wines tend to offer fresh, flavorful taste profiles with enough sweet fruit to balance the salt in the ham and enough acidity to support the combination without compromising the flavor in either the ham or the wine. Consider an Alsatian or German Riesling for their mineral-laden Old World character or a bright Washington state Riesling from either Hogue Cellars or Chateau...
WineStation & Double Helix – The Perfect DNA
The Double Helix Wine Bar and Whiskey Lounge certainly lives up to is locale. In the city that goes big daily, Double Helix offers a vast selection of whiskey's and over 40 different wines! Yeah. That's what we said -- OVER 40 WINES! So how does an operator manage all that inventory and stay profitable? You place your bet on the WineStation. In the center of this perfectly constructed lounge sits the state of the art WineStation. This 16 bottle system features a wide breadth of wines from...
The Wall of Wine
Sean Wight is slowly gaining a reputation as Augusta’s mad food-scientist, the Alton Brown of the Garden City, if you will. At Frog Hollow Tavern and Farmhaus Burger, Wight is known for relying on mostly locally sourced products, pickling his own fruits and vegetables, creating concoctions like bacon jam and Woo sauce (his own Worcestershire sauce). He puts fried eggs on top of burgers and tequila in milkshakes, so Wight is clearly unafraid to conduct experiments in his kitchens-laboratories....
10 Surprising Places You Can Buy Alcohol
When most people want to toss back a cold one, they head to a nearby bar or liquor store. But increasingly, consumers can buy booze in some unconventional locales — even hospitals. Starbucks announced this week that it will start selling beer and wine in the evenings in thousands of its stores, which the company says should help boost sales. But the coffee giant is hardly alone. Pharmacies You can already get booze with your pills — drugstores like Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid sell alcohol —...
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