Spirited’s Oktoberfest features wide selection
By Kameron Z. Spaulding The fall season is always a highlight for beer drinkers. One of the greatest local events each year is the Oktoberfest tasting planned each year by Spirited (formerly Nejaime’s) on…
Discover Brazilian wines
When one thinks of Brazil, what comes to mind? The answer is usually: “a tropical country with beautiful beaches and a passion for soccer, samba and Carnival.” According to “Wines…
Discovering I’m French
The time in Pays D’Oc IGP has come to an end. My five days of “Pays D’Oc IGP Nirvana” is now a living and lifelong memory. My first wine “undercover”…
Pays d’Oc, here I am
The sun is shining and it is 73 degrees in Montpellier, France. The day has begun and the first image I see is a guy in a beret riding his…
A healthy, easy snack: crockpot applesauce
Fall in New England, in addition to offering eye-popping foliage and cool, crisp golden days, also brings apples. A favorite among most New Englanders is the McIntosh. While it’s a nice,…
Holiday Brook Farm offers sustainably-grown foods
DALTON – To get to Holiday Brook Farm, one crosses a small bridge over Wahconah Brook and drives up an unpaved road to the farm store and other buildings. Then,…
Going undercover to visit France’s Pays d’Oc IGP region
As you can see from my photograph, I am going “undercover” on an assignment to visit the Pays d’Oc region in southern France. My goal is to find out why…
Umani Ronchi is a star Italian wine producer
The cards that were dealt to me were a perfect hand. Umani Rochi, the small yet well-known producer from Abruzzo and Le Marche fame, from the center of eastern Italy,…
Mediterranean herb demonstration at Berkshire Athenaeum
PITTSFIELD – More than 50 men and women, eager to learn about how to use Mediterranean herbs in cooking, attended an educational – as well as tasty – program in…
The king of French Champagne and wine
Michael Fuerstein, owner and founder of Selection Pas Mal, would have loved me even more if I were a retail wine shop owner. If I were, my 2,000-square foot wine…