Holiday Pairings
Everyone loves the holidays- and what better way to enjoy them than with a glass of wine. Parties, hostess gifts, the office gift exchange… all reasons for getting a great bottle of wine. Sometimes, you really want to pair wine with the foods that you are serving. So here are a few holiday tips: 1) Pair your wine according to the heaviness of the dish. Shrimp or chicken in a white wine or butter sauce? Choose a light bodied white- White Raven with its lively acidity and bright citrus notes is a perfect companion. Turkey with all the trimmings? Choose…
Maryland-Based Beverage Group Finds New Prestige in Howard County
This fall has been an exciting time for Maryland’s own Prestige Beverage Group. In October, the company held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new offices in Elkridge, having completed its move from much smaller digs in Curtis Bay. At that event, managing partners Bill Burrill and Joey Smith also teamed with Berrywine Plantations/Linganore Winecellars to present Johns Hopkins’ Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center with a check for $8,566 – the result of a charitable initiative the two Maryland beverage companies have collaborated on throughout the current year. In attendance were such luminaries as Linganore Winecellars President Anthony Aellen and Ian…
New Website
After months of multi-tasking between wine festivals, redesigning our logo and imagining what to create for our new website, we finally unveiled the new design on Monday. We hope that you like our new look and continue to visit our site for updates. One of our newest features is this blog, where we can interact with customers, share news about the winery and discuss all different aspects of the wine world with you. We hope that you join us in this conversation.
Mount Airy, MD – Thursday April 21, 2011
As you know from my last writing, as of March 13, 2011, we have gone 100% wind power, which is part of our sustainability goal for our winery. What you might not know is that on April 16, 2011 at about 8pm, we were hit by a F-1 tornado which gave us a lot of natural lighting by removing roofing from the processing room, tank room and the building we store the grape harvester, tractors, and festival equipment and supplies. Believe me, we really didn’t contract for this much wind power. As of this writing, 5 days later, we are…
Wind to Wine Rules! “A recycling story”
Not too many years ago, actually just about two to three generations ago, most Americans lost their connection with agriculture. With the dawning of the age of industrialization folks moved from farms to find jobs building cars, running machines, working in cities where the factories were being built. America was on the move. Massive immigration occurred as America was seen as the “land of opportunity”. The world was becoming more mechanized more efficient more industrial based less agricultural based. Things were growing. Though two world wars and other major conflicts, industrialization continued to take over a larger and larger part…
