The Wine Voyage

Table of Contents - What Is Limoncello, Exactly? - Where Limoncello Comes From - Limoncello vs. Other Citrus and Herbal Liqueurs - What Does Limoncello Taste Like? - How to Serve Limoncello with Intent - Running a Limoncello Tasting for a Group - Bringing a Limoncello Tasting to Your Team - Further Reading Limoncello gets dismissed sometimes as the liqueur you bring home from an Amalfi Coast vacation and forget about in the freezer, and I think that's a shame, because a properly made limoncello is one of the most genuinely crowd-pleasing pours I know. Everyone has an opinion about lemon. Nobody needs a wine background to have a reaction to it. That combination — familiar flavor, unfamiliar format — makes it one of my favorite ways to close out a group tasting on an easy, high-energy note. This guide covers what limoncello actually is, where it comes from, what separates a great bottle from a forgettable one, how to serve it properly, and how to build it into a group event that peop...

Table of Contents - What Is Limoncello, Exactly? - Where Limoncello Comes From - Limoncello vs. Other Citrus and Herbal Liqueurs - What Does Limoncello Taste Like? - How to Serve Limoncello with Intent - Running a Limoncello Tasting for a Group - Bringing a Limoncello Tasting to Your Team - Further Reading Limoncello gets dismissed sometimes as the liqueur you bring home from an Amalfi Coast vacation and forget about in the freezer, and I think that's a shame, because a properly made limoncello is one of the most genuinely crowd-pleasing pours I know. Everyone has an opinion about lemon. Nobody needs a wine background to have a reaction to it. That combination — familiar flavor, unfamiliar format — makes it one of my favorite ways to close out a group tasting on an easy, high-energy note. This guide covers what limoncello actually is, where it comes from, what separates a great bottle from a forgettable one, how to serve it properly, and how to build it into a group event that peop...

Table of Contents - What Makes Sacramento Unique for Team Building - 15 Team Building Activities Sacramento Groups Love - How to Choose the Right Team Building Activities Sacramento Activity for Your Team - Why Wine and Spirits Tastings Work So Well in Sacramento Specifically - Booking Team Building Activities in Sacramento - Further Reading When companies ask me about team building activities Sacramento teams will actually enjoy, I point out something a lot of outsiders miss: Sacramento isn't the sleepy state-capital afterthought people assume it is. This is a metro that's grown into a genuine tech and healthcare hub — companies priced out of the Bay Area have been relocating and expanding here for years — while holding onto a food and wine identity that most cities twice its size can't touch. Sacramento calls itself "America's Farm-to-Fork Capital" for a reason, and that same culinary confidence carries straight through to how well this city hosts a corporat...

Table of Contents - What Makes Sacramento Unique for Team Building - 15 Team Building Activities Sacramento Groups Love - How to Choose the Right Team Building Activities Sacramento Activity for Your Team - Why Wine and Spirits Tastings Work So Well in Sacramento Specifically - Booking Team Building Activities in Sacramento - Further Reading When companies ask me about team building activities Sacramento teams will actually enjoy, I point out something a lot of outsiders miss: Sacramento isn't the sleepy state-capital afterthought people assume it is. This is a metro that's grown into a genuine tech and healthcare hub — companies priced out of the Bay Area have been relocating and expanding here for years — while holding onto a food and wine identity that most cities twice its size can't touch. Sacramento calls itself "America's Farm-to-Fork Capital" for a reason, and that same culinary confidence carries straight through to how well this city hosts a corporat...

Table of Contents - What Is a Daiquiri? - Where the Daiquiri Comes From - The Classic Recipe and How to Build It - Daiquiri Variations Worth Knowing - Building a Group Tasting Around the Daiquiri - Common Questions - Bringing a Daiquiri Tasting to Your Team - Further Reading Ask someone to picture a Daiquiri and most people describe a frozen, blended, neon-colored slushie machine drink from a beach bar. That's not what a Daiquiri actually is, and it's one of the more frustrating gaps between reputation and reality in the entire cocktail world. The real Daiquiri — rum, lime, sugar, shaken hard and served up — is one of the tightest, most technically demanding three-ingredient cocktails there is, and it's been unfairly buried under decades of frozen-drink-machine imitators that share nothing but a name. This guide covers where the Daiquiri actually comes from, the technique that separates a genuinely great one from a forgettable one, its most important variations, and how to ...

Table of Contents - What Is a Daiquiri? - Where the Daiquiri Comes From - The Classic Recipe and How to Build It - Daiquiri Variations Worth Knowing - Building a Group Tasting Around the Daiquiri - Common Questions - Bringing a Daiquiri Tasting to Your Team - Further Reading Ask someone to picture a Daiquiri and most people describe a frozen, blended, neon-colored slushie machine drink from a beach bar. That's not what a Daiquiri actually is, and it's one of the more frustrating gaps between reputation and reality in the entire cocktail world. The real Daiquiri — rum, lime, sugar, shaken hard and served up — is one of the tightest, most technically demanding three-ingredient cocktails there is, and it's been unfairly buried under decades of frozen-drink-machine imitators that share nothing but a name. This guide covers where the Daiquiri actually comes from, the technique that separates a genuinely great one from a forgettable one, its most important variations, and how to ...