Lisa Waterman Gray

Dec 2, 2024 | missourilife.com | Doug Frost |Lisa Waterman Gray

Please don’t imagine for a moment that I’m going to tell you what wines you should like, or what glass shape is the one that will impress your snooty co-workers, or whether you should stick your pinky out when you hold a glass of wine. That’s not the point of this column. Instead, I want to remind you that wine is fruit juice that’s been converted by nature into an alcoholic beverage. Yes, some wines cost a few dollars, and some of them cost thousands, but they’re all just fermented grape juice.

Nov 22, 2024 | wanderwithwonder.com | Lisa Waterman Gray

Discover the charm of the Historic Park Inn Hotel in Mason City, Iowa, a must-visit for architecture lovers and travelers alike. Since my teens, I have been a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright and leaped to visit Mason City, Iowa. This small metropolis is home to the renowned architect’s final remaining hotel. Initially constructed during the early 1900s, the Historic Park Inn Hotel reflected Wright’s Prairie style of architecture.

Nov 4, 2024 | alcoholprofessor.com | Lisa Waterman Gray

Shinn says communication with surrounding neighborhoods is key to effective operations under LODI RULES. “Having open lines of communication with neighbors and not having land wars is important. Dan includes his neighbors in his wine club, too.”Altnow mentioned starting a group of farmers to raise awareness regarding how vineyard practices of others impacted their own (such as viruses that can move from block to block). “The group is called Jahant Appellation Alliance,*” she says.

Aug 30, 2024 | alcoholprofessor.com | Lisa Waterman Gray

In Belgium, Pascal’s great-grandfather, Omer, had the initial idea of making tomato wine. And Pascal had the chance to know Omer until the age of 12, so he always promised his great grandfather that he would continue the project of making tomato wine. But Omerto wine was never commercialized in Belgium. Rather, it was first commercialized in Quebec, during 2011. “It took 32 years of research and development to find good yeast for fermentation and the right tomato varieties,” Hotte says.

Aug 9, 2024 | cleanplates.com | Lisa Waterman Gray

Most people think of balsamic vinegar as simply a salad dressing ingredient — and it is — but it’s also so much more than that. If you pick a bottle of balsamic vinegar off the shelf at the grocery store, there’s a good chance that it will taste sour and tangy, because it wasn’t made the traditional way. Traditional balsamic, which reflects a nearly 1,000-year-old process that originated in the Italian regions of Modena and Emilia-Romagna, is primarily sweet and syrupy, not acidic.