Doug and Maureen Heimbuch had this hankering to make wine, so they sold off some investments and abandoned careers to plant some vines on a south county farm. Doug operated a fisheries farm and Maureen was an environmental lawyer, but it wasn’t anything they were passionate about. So it came time for a life change and, like so many others, making wine was attractive. If it sounds a little crazy …
In an era of instant everything, some things still take time – growing, making and sipping a glass of wine is one of them. For wine lovers in Southwest Washington, there’s much to smile about.
Last month’s rise in excise duty has turned our wine into the highest taxed in Europe. So if your favourite tipple is now out of your price range, how do you go about finding an alternative? You may not yet have noticed the post-budget duty increase that put another 15p on a bottle of wine, but you soon will. It brings the increase in excise duty to 12.5% in the past year (15% after VAT), making …
Alija Lizde spent five months in military prison camps in 1993. His only crime was being a Bosnian Muslim, but that was enough for the Bosnian Croat military police.
What will prove to be Francis Ford Coppola ‘s biggest challenge: making “Apocalypse Now” or remaking Inglenook wines? The movie director/wine estate owner’s latest outsize ambition: Restore a label best known for such…
I wish to report, modestly, that I wrote a wine column in May 1997 that started like this:
It’s always a good year at the Senior Junior Forum’s Red River Wine Festival.
Much more than a bottle of red and a bottle of white at these Detroit wine bars including Tallulah, Vinology and Grape Expectations. What better way to learn about the rich history of wine than to enjoy a couple glasses over diner.
It all started with a bottle of Dao, a Portuguese red wine, that wasn’t 100 percent drinkable.
Hurley’s in Yountville, Calif. offers this recipe of Grilled Mussels with Red Wine and Chorizo.
