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 ...

Table of Contents - What Is a Mai Tai? - Where the Mai Tai Comes From - The Classic Recipe and How to Build It - Mai Tai Variations Worth Knowing - Building a Group Tasting Around the Mai Tai - Common Questions - Bringing a Mai Tai Tasting to Your Team - Further Reading I've served a lot of Mai Tais that had no business calling themselves Mai Tais — a splash of dark rum, a flood of pineapple and orange juice, a maraschino cherry, and a name borrowed for marketing rather than earned through the actual recipe. The real Mai Tai is a tight, rum-forward, barely-sweet cocktail that most people have literally never tasted, because most bars serve a fruit-juice imitation instead. That gap between reputation and reality is exactly why the Mai Tai deserves its own guide instead of getting lumped in with "tropical drinks" generally. This guide covers where the Mai Tai actually comes from, the real 1944 recipe and the decades-long dispute over who invented it, its most important vari...