When You Need a Wine Under $10 - The New York Times

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Over the years, we’ve defined wines most often by appellation, occasionally by grape and, once in a while, by popularity.

But many readers have suggested that we look at wines by price. Essentially, this group resists all but the cheapest bottles possible.

Most of the time for Wine School, that’s not practical. If you want to explore the world of wine, to really get to know it, you have to be willing to spend some money. You do not get to know Bordeaux, say, or Napa Valley, or anywhere else, really, by chasing the cheapest options. But I do try to avoid excessively costly bottles and to seek value in my suggestions.

So what is available at the low end of the price spectrum? Where do the wines come from and what do you get for the price? This month we’re going to explore red wines that are under $10 a bottle. Here are the three bottles I recommend:

La Vieille Ferme Vin de France Red 2019 (Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, Ala.) $8

Masciarelli Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2018 (Vintus, Pleasantville, N.Y.) $9

Los Vascos Colchagua Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 (Taub Family Selections, Boca Raton, Fla.) $9

Now, I know someone, somewhere, is saying: “$9 for a bottle of wine? Nobody has to spend more than $5!”

For $5, you will most likely get some pretty bad wine that has been heavily manipulated, farmed industrially or perhaps sold extremely cheaply on the bulk market for some other reason.

I’m very curious about these three $10 wines. For years my position has been that the best values in wine are between $15 and $25. Good wines in that range cost enough (barely) to finance conscientious farming and non-manipulative winemaking. Once you get below $10, compromises are inevitable.

I expect that will continue to be my position after this month. Nonetheless, I hope that these wines will all be honest expressions, even if they turn out to be not the most complex bottles and are unable to articulate a sense of place. They ought to be relatively simple and satisfying, nonetheless.

Each of these bottles is well distributed. But if you can’t find one of them, the solution is easy. Pick a red wine that’s equally inexpensive.

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Park Rapids EDA extends revolving loan to wine bar - Park Rapids Enterprise

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Meeting as the EDA board of directors for the first time since July 28, 2020 were Mayor Ryan Leckner and the members of the Park Rapids City Council.

City Administrator Angel Weasner and Mary Thompson, executive director of the Heartland Lakes Development Commission, presented information about the loan request by owner Karen Acker with Wine Not? LLC.

Thompson said Acker wants to open a wine bar and retail location to sell wine-making kits and supplies. She also hopes to offer classes on wine-making and provide space for other types of classes. Some food that pairs with wine, such as meat and cheese, would also be available.

Thompson said Acker has obtained financing approval from Citizens National Bank to buy the Moose Creek building at 110 4th St. W. Acker also owns Itasca Tours.

According to draft minutes of the meeting, there was a consensus of EDA board members that the business idea is a worthwhile risk and that it jives with the aim of the revolving loan fund (RLF), to bring new businesses to the downtown area.

Responding to board members’ questions, Thompson said Acker will also be able to sell beer as part of her on-sale license. Asked about the difference between Acker’s liquor license and the licenses for craft breweries, Thompson said Acker will not sell the wine she makes.

Besides wine-making classes, Thompson said Acker could offer classes on “creative creations,” like scrapbooking. She added that it would be a year-round business.

Board member Tom Conway moved to approve the loan request at a 4.25 percent interest rate, and the motion passed unanimously.

Later, Conway made a motion to set the interest rate for the loan at one point below the prime rate, which was currently 3.25 percent. This motion also passed unanimously.

According to Weasner, the final interest rate will be known only upon signing the loan agreement.

In further discussion, Thompson sought clarification of the city’s RLF policies, such as whether or not to extend eligibility of RLF loans outside city limits, their applicability to non-profits and government entities, specifically encouraging their use to enhance buildings’ energy efficiency or accessibility to people with disabilities, issues relating to annexing property into the city, handling loan modification requests, maintaining separate RLF accounts for both the city and the HLDC, requiring a quarterly report to the EDA board about the revolving loan fund and streamlining loan application forms.

It was agreed that Thompson would bring the updated policies to the city council for approval.

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Brooklyn wine pioneer inks HQ lease at Ten Grand Street - Real Estate Weekly

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Renowned wine importer Neal Rosenthal is taking over the entire 22nd floor of Ten Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

In addition to being the headquarters for the Rosenthal Wine Merchant team of 41 current employees – a number expected to grow substantially within the next few years – the space will also serve as a spectacular venue for exclusive events where wine, food and culture converge.

Alyssa Zahler, Elizabeth Bueno and Michelle Trevino from Two Trees Management brokered the lease. The company is relocating from Two Trees’ 45 Main Street in Dumbo

“Our move into Ten Grand comes at an important time for Rosenthal Wine Merchant and for New York City,” said Rosenthal.

 “We are very excited to call this beautiful space our new home, not least of all because it will provide us with an opportunity to welcome our growers, the trade and the public into our world. In addition to being the headquarters for the Rosenthal Wine Merchant team, our office at Ten Grand will also allow me to share my other passions – among them food, design, travel and the arts – with the world through both private events and experiences open to the public. I am very happy to be doing so in New York City, my hometown, whose resilience and constant evolution are inspiring.”

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Developed by Two Trees Management, Ten Grand Street is the first commercial component of the redeveloped Domino Sugar Factory site.

Designed by COOKFOX Architects, the 42-story tower is located at the northern boundary of Domino Park. Along with 330 residential rental units, it contains 22 commercial floors with 150,000 s/f of office space and 13,000 s/f of retail, known as Ten Grand Street.

Ten Grand Street offers commercial tenants a range of amenities including a 45-seat theater, several lounges and conference rooms, rooftop cabanas, state-of-the-art fitness facilities, and a large bike lobby.

Ten Grand Street and One South First will feature several Brooklyn-based retailers including Roberta’s, Other Half Brewing Co., Oddfellows Ice Cream and Two Hands Café.

Two Trees also signed a 12,000 s/f lease with brand Prose, which will occupy the entire 8th and 9th floors of the tower.

Work on the new Rosenthal space, which will be designed by the three young architects behind Pseudonym Studio, is set to begin in a few weeks, with move-in scheduled for September of this year.

Once open, Rosenthal will host wine tastings, dinners and receptions for visiting producers, as well as art shows, conferences, poetry readings and gourmet experiences with high profile chefs from around the world.

Rosenthal, a pioneering importer who was among the first to bring the great wines of Western Europe to the US more than 40 years ago, will be among the first tenants of the new development.

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Paso Robles Wine County Alliance Announces Virtual Auction • Atascadero News - The Atascadero News

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Over 25 Unique Lots Help to Fund Local High School Scholarships

The Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance (PRWCA) announced on Monday, Mar. 29, the launch of their first-ever Paso Robles Wine Country Virtual Auction. The auction is set to begin on Monday, May 10, and run through Sunday, May 16. 

The online auction features over 25 lots from more than 50 Paso Robles wine country businesses, including wineries, hotels, restaurants, tour companies, and recreation outfitters. 

The specially curated auction lots are exclusive packages that are not available as retail experiences. Wineries will not only offer wine, but luxurious overnight stays in wine country, winemaker dinners at some of Paso Robles’s best restaurants, high-touch educational vineyard tours, as well as rare and allocated wines. 

Funds generated from the Wine Country Virtual Auction benefit the Paso Robles Wine Country Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that gives back to the community primarily through educational scholarships for aspiring young adults headed off to college. 

Visit pasowine.com/events/virtual-auction to begin viewing. 

As mentioned, the weeklong online auction will run from May 10 to the 16, which precedes the traditional time of the annual Paso Robles Wine Festival in years past.

Considering the current COVID-19 event restrictions and limitations on large gatherings, the online auction allows the Paso Robles wine region to showcase the wine country lifestyle to fans and bidders from around the country. 

One-of-a-kind, lots like A French Family Affair, brings the families of L’Aventure, Clos Solène, and Benom together for a dinner for six with the highest bidder at the high-end, French cuisine restaurant Les Petites Canailles. Another multi-brand experience unique to Paso Robles brings a group of eight to Sixmilebridge, where owner Jim Moroney treats guests to the dinner table with winemaker Anthony Yount. Dinner also features the wines of other brands that Anthony makes, including Denner Vineyards and Royal Nonesuch Farms.

There are impossible to find lots available to the highest bidder as well, like a complete current release package (12 bottles) of Saxum wines along with two signed 1.5L magnums. Another hard-to-get lot includes an Austin Hope Cabernet Sauvignon vintage line-up, including the vintages of 2015 – 2019, along with two signed large format bottles of the 2017 and 2018 vintages.

Overnight stays offer everything from a three-night getaway in a luxury house stay for six at Turley Wine Cellars to the equally luxurious stay for two at the new Geneseo Inn on Cass Winery’s 145-acre estate. These stays and many more “uber-cool” experiences are on the auction block, ready to be won. 

Even though the Paso Robles Wine Country Virtual Auction launches on Monday, May 10, lots are being populated online now. Visit pasowine.com/events/virtual-auction to begin viewing lots and check back daily. The inventory of unique and exceptional experiences grows by the day leading up to the May 10 open bidding. The auction concludes at midnight on Sunday, May 16.

 “We are excited to showcase some incredibly rare offerings unique to Paso Robles wine country that have been pulled from personal cellars and paired with incredible experiences that we’ve never seen offered in our area!” said Molly Scott, Chairperson of the PRWCA Board of Directors, and Director of Grower Relations for JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery. “Equally exciting is the new online auction format which allows Paso Wine fans across the world to partake in helping raise funds that we will channel right back into our local community through our foundation.”

This auction uses the Greater Giving Online Bidding platform, allowing for a paperless bidding system. Bidders use a smartphone, tablet, or desktop to bid on auction items and can easily track lots by “following” their activity without having to continuously return to a table or bid sheet.

The Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance Foundation has been giving back to the local community through high school scholarships for 15 years. These scholarships help college and trade school-bound young adults to have a little extra funding to take some of the pressure off affording tuitions, materials, travel, etc., as they plan their futures. The Paso Robles wine community is proud to help the next generation reach their goals.

ABOUT PASO ROBLES WINE COUNTRY ALLIANCE

The Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance is the official trade organization representing wineries, growers, and businesses in Paso Robles Wine Country. Centrally located between San Francisco and Los Angeles, along California’s Central Coast, Paso Robles Wine Country is California’s third-largest wine region. It encompasses more than 40,000 vineyard acres and 200 wineries. For more information, visit pasowine.com. 

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Augmented Reality for Craft Beer Industry, Packaging to Follow - PRNewswire

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GEELONG, Australia, April 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A high-tech concept that turns product packaging into interactive 'virtual' displays could help to drive craft beer's popularity even higher, with today's announcement that the technology would roll out to the industry in 2021.

The platform, aptly named BEERSCANS™ has been developed for the industry and is a tool for brewers to offer a unique virtual experience, from every beer label.

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The concept uses smartphones to scan labels, and augmented reality to project content back onto the can or bottle.

Dave Chaffey, from Third Aurora, the company behind the platform, said the "wow factor" is a powerful drawcard, to attract customers.

"The augmented reality is just incredible. You literally see jaws drop. "

"It really captures the imagination."

"That's the razzle dazzle. It's the team behind it all that are the real stars of the show. "

Storytelling, authenticity draws consumers

The company is pitching the concept to consumers as a way to discover the backstory – the people, processes, and place behind their favourite beer.

Point of sale materials will dare consumers to bring their beer to life, as well as challenging them to 'unlock' the story behind the beer.

See demonstration on the BEERSCANS™ website

According to Chaffey, BEERSCANS™ is a great fit for the craft beer industry.

"This is all about delivering a great experience, one that's a bit different."

"It's informative, and entertaining – and it's with real people, telling their story straight their own product. That authentic mix is where consumers see value, said Chaffey" and we think it aligns well with the craft beer movement."

"The consumer response has been strong; we can see a pathway to bring the concept to every craft beer."

Intriguing opportunities

Whilst the focus is on the customer, a range of additional features make it hard to ignore the intriguing commercial opportunities:

• Promotions
• Capturing Sales
• Social media connection
• Activation of all inventories

On that last point, Chaffey interjects – "Ok, this is great."

"Forget QR codes. The smartphone app uses image recognition technology to analyse the detail of cans and bottles – effectively identifying products by 'sight', the same way you or I would."

"A business only has to upload one label for our system to learn, and then every identical label across the world activates. Whether it's from the latest batch, or an old bottle that's been in a fridge for ten years."

If the label looks the same, it's active.

Rollout Dates

BEERSCANS™ is set launch in Q3 of 2021, capping the initial release to fifty US brands. Interested parties are encouraged to visit Beerscans.com, to register an expression of interest.

Media Enquiries

Media Contact: Dave Chaffey, Parner, Third Aurora & BEERSCANS™

Via Media Center: beerscans.com/media/

Phone: +61 1300 633 390

BEERSCANS™ is a product of Third Aurora – a Collaborative Tech Engine, supported by Innovative technology by Vuforia Engine.

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National Beer Day: 5 Orlando brews to fill your cooler - Orlando Sentinel

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The new place is airy — a sleek, 4,500-square foot operation with gleaming tanks and cement floors and a restaurant license, so you can grab a panini with your flight if you’d like. Within the next month, though, the food offerings will expand as the team behind Michael’s Ali Coal-Fired Pizza and Mac’d Out, both with locations in Winter Garden and Clermont, will be bringing pizza and mac-and-cheese concepts to Three Odd Guys.

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A Simple, DIY Ginger Beer Recipe | Wine Enthusiast - Wine Enthusiast Magazine Online

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A precursor to the ginger ale that lines soda aisles today, ginger beer is believed to have been first created in Great Britain around the mid-1700s.  Its name comes from the fermentation process that gives the drink its carbonation, though it’s actually more akin to cider production. In the traditional process, the drink would start with a ginger “plant,” or yeast and bacteria culture not unlike a sourdough starter, which could be maintained and used to create countless batches.

As ginger cultivation grew across the globe, the drink became particularly popular in the Caribbean, where strong, pungent varieties of the root created a signature style with more heat and spice than its predecessors. Now used as the backbone of classic cocktails like the Moscow Mule and Dark n’ Stormy, ginger beer’s popularity has resurged over the past decade with countless new brands popping up on the market.

While traditional yeast-fermented ginger beer can be lightly alcoholic, most commercial bottlings are non-alcoholic, unless labeled otherwise.

You can use yeast to create a naturally carbonated ginger beer at home with a slight kick of alcohol, though we’re opting for a force carbonated version here for simplicity (and less tedious sanitization and risk of exploding bottles). All it takes is a SodaStream, iSi soda siphon or other brand of home carbonator, or even just a bottle of soda water as a mixer.

If you’re interested in diving into the yeast-based brewing process for future batches, you can find a quick primer here.

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Ingredients

• 1 pound fresh ginger
• 2 teaspoons cloves
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• ½ cup honey, preferably orange blossom
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 4 limes, squeezed
• 8 dashes Angostura bitters
• 2 teaspoons orange flower water (optional)

Directions

Peel skin off ginger using spoon, then grate or finely dice. Add ginger to pot with 2 quarts water, cloves and cinnamon sticks. Bring to simmer over medium heat for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to steep refrigerated overnight.

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Strain mixture through cheesecloth or mesh strainer, and pour back into pot. Squeeze or press remaining ginger mash in the strainer to get the remaining, highly concentrated juice out.

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Bring liquid back to a low simmer, then stir in honey and brown sugar until fully dissolved.

Remove from heat and allow to cool. Add freshly squeezed lime juice, Angostura bitters and orange flower water. Stir, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, until chilled.

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Add mixture to soda siphon to carbonate. If using SodaStream or machine meant primarily for sparkling water, as opposed to a soda siphon, use short bursts of carbonation, up to about half what it would take to carbonate water. Alternatively, after adding sugar and honey, can simmer until amount of liquid is reduced by half. To serve, mix concentrated ginger beer base with equal parts seltzer. Makes 2 quarts.

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