Healdsburg’s Visionary Women

Visionary businesswomen can be found all over Wine Country. But one place has a high concentration. Healdsburg’s peaceful town square is home to shops, boutique hotels, wine tasting rooms and restaurants. Though miles of vineyards, rolling hills, farms and redwood groves surround Healdsburg, it’s easily Sonoma’s most chichi, high-end town. Healdsburg female Winemakers roundtable discussion Well, good news is that… Read more →

5 Hours in Heathrow: My Travelux Magazine Feature

My first print feature for Europe’s new Travelux magazine on luxury wine, spirits and travel (from Paragraph, the publishers of Whisky Magazine and Gin Magazine, which I write for every issue). This feature, it’s my guide in where to eat, drink and buy spirits in London’s Heathrow airport: http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pnum=62&edid=a5630aa3-9483-4033-acb4-c066436c8e44&isshared=true – Read more →

One Block: Valencia Street

Published by Where Traveler (my other Where articles here) in the October 2019 print issue, my “One Block” article on where to eat, drink, shop and take in art on Valencia Street in SF’s Mission District: — EAT: AL’s Deli, Media Noche, Dosa on Valencia— DRINK: The Beehive, Wildhawk, Bon Voyage— SHOP: 826 Valencia, Dog-Eared Books, 1-2-3-4 Go! Records— VIEW: Artists’ Television Access,… Read more →

October 1, 2019

THIS ISSUE:
— The Only Bar of It’s Kind: A unique Dublin newcomer shows off Ireland’s homegrown spirit, poitin.
— The Best of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail: My Liquor.com distillery guide.
— The World’s Most Expensive Coffee: Exploring Panama’s Geisha coffee plantations.

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The Only Bar of It’s Kind… Showing Off Ireland’s Homegrown Spirit: Poitin

Covering the world’s only full-on poitin bar, Bar 1661, in Dublin from Dave Mulligan, who I interview at Liquor.com in my latest feature, SHOWING OFF POITÍN, IRELAND’S HOMEGROWN SPIRIT, AT A NEW BAR. ONE THAT’S ALL POITÍN, ALL THE TIME. Bar 1661 poitin flight Doctors often have a viagra best difficult time diagnosing the exact cause of malady should be… Read more →

A Shortcut to the Best of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail

I wrote Liquor.com’s guide to the Best of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail this September with my tips for the best of the Bourbon Trail: www.liquor.com/series/kentucky-bourbon-trail Maker’s Mark Chihuly exhibit in Loretto, June 2017 (Photo Credit: Virginia Miller) Rabbit Hole Distillery, Louisville (Photo Credit: Virginia Miller) Maker’s Mark permanent “Spirit of the Maker” Chihuly barrel exhibit in Loretto, KY (Photo Credit:… Read more →

The World’s Most Expensive Coffee — Exploring Panama Geisha Coffee Plantations

Published at BaseNotes by Vitruvi in September 2019, my article on the vibrant, rare coffee plantations of Panama. Beyond 2020, La Cosecha will begin offering coffee plantation tours around the mountains of Panama. Jorge Chanis formed La Cosecha to educate on Panama’s coffee riches, hosting press and trade tours around the region, which they plan to eventually launch for the… Read more →

September 15, 2019

THIS ISSUE:
— Top 6 New Bay Area Restaurants: From gourmet Thai and hip Korean to South Bay retro supperclub.
— Prague on the Rise: Dining in Prauge, my print articles in Haute Living magazine.
— 10 Bars Serving Standout Rum Cocktails Across the US: Hello, Boulder, Denver, SF, Nola, NYC and beyond.
— Top 10 Tokyo Bars: My Gin Magazine print feature.

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