Perry is having a bit of a moment, and it’s long overdue. A well-made perry, an ancient beverage fermented from the juice of pears, is a thing of beauty. It can conjure thrilling comparisons to an ethereal white wine, or evoke visions of something with a larger...
After years of being stuck close to home, foreign travel has come roaring back to finally surpass pre-pandemic levels, and it is an exciting time to be heading out to explore a wider world. As a cider lover, you may have been assembling your own bucket list of...
Co-ferments give cidermakers, and winemakers, an opportunity to express a sense of place in a whole new way Grey, damp fog drifts through the towering redwood trees. On a typical summer morning, it blankets northern California’s Sonoma County, starting from the...
One of the great joys of travel is finding a hidden gem, some magical place that you either didn’t know was there or had once visited and then completely forgotten about. I felt that sense of discovery when I visited the central California coast in the summer of...
We are a people of stories. They are how we come to understand our past and frame a path to our future. Stories are the beating heart of the recently released book Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South by Diane Flynt. Flynt,...
One of my favorite places in the wide world of cider is a small town in northern Spain, Villaviciosa. Most travel writers will extol the virtues of Donostia-San Sebastiàn in the Basque Country, or the larger and more well-known Asturian cities of Gijón and Oviedo....
Traveling by train is one of the pleasures of Europe. Many countries are well served by rail both within and across their borders with stops in cities large and small. The routes are often quite scenic, and it is certainly easier to appreciate the view when you...
When you ask the average American which European capital is at the top of their must-visit bucket list, Copenhagen is rarely the answer. It didn’t even make the top 10 for 2023, according to data compiled by the website travelpulse.com. That’s a shame, for the city...
Wisps of cool gray mist wreath the gothic bell tower of Troyes’ Cathedral and, though spring is not far off, a wintery breeze ruffles the blossoms on the early-blooming plums, scattering their petals like snow. March is perhaps not the loveliest month to visit this...
Liz Copas’ gift to cider enthusiasts and lovers of rural places Herefordshire. Somerset. Devonshire. These are the places the well-informed American cider drinker thinks of when talk turns to English cider and apples. The wonderful new book by Liz Copas, The Lost...
