How green is your vino?

Check out how your wines rank in Greenopia’s guide.

Organic basil marg, as demo-ed by B-Side Blog

Thanks to the gracious folks at B-Side Blog for the love (and an apology for yet another grotesquely self-promotional plug for my organic cocktails book).

Finally, a tea party I’d vote for…

Hat tip to fine folks at Spir.it blog

Is organic wine better than regular wine?

Not necessarily. I agree with Robert Camuto, author of Corkscrewed, when he says in this brief vid on Chow.com that organic wines can be great or crap but that folks who are geeky enough to go through the hassle of making wines with organically grown grapes tend to give a damn how the stuff tastes.

Organic Connections mag interviews some doofus author of book on organic cocktails

Oh, that doofus would be me. Thanks to the piece’s author, Bruce Boyers, for somehow managing to make me sound as if I can speak English.

Meanwhile, here’s a not-entirely-gratuitous photo of a spiked blueberry-thyme lemonade…

Negroni, ti voglio bene!

 

 

Ask most people who don’t yet receive Social Security checks in the mail what sorts of aperitifs they like, and your audience will likely imagine musty old ladies sipping what tastes like cough syrup from tiny glasses while peering over bifocals at their bridge hands.

I did too. Until I began trying some of these drinks.

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