Shelby Pope
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Adventures in Wine
Glögg, Glögg, Glögg… West Wines introduces Sonoma County to glögg, a boozy Swedish holiday tradition. A few years ago, a customer at Katarina Bonde’s West Wines became enamored of the Christmas decorations at her Healdsburg winery. Bonde moved to America from Sweden nearly three decades ago. Every year, she bedecks the winery that she owns…
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Not Your Parents’ Gin
Local distilleries put a modern, balanced spin on a misunderstood spirit. In Jenny Griffo’s experience, most people have a terrible gin story. They all seem to follow the same plot. A bottle of Tanqueray, stolen from a parent’s liquor cabinet. A night of drinking that invariably ends with a hangover and a sworn oath never to touch the stuff…