Balancing act with a white wine glass and a honeycomb hovering above and dripping honey into the wine glass

May Flowers…for Mead!

April showers bring May flowers… Aaaaaaand, with flowers come bees, bees make honey, people turn honey into Mead.  Boom. Mead is a “honey wine” (actually, not ‘wine‘ as wine comes from a fruit base, but we’ll dive into that in another post later this summer…) that is made…

Three wine sangrias, both red and white wine, with fresh fruit garnish

It’s National Sangria Day!

A (brief) history of modern day sangria: The desirable beverage’s history stretches far back into the tomes of history, most likely in the Greek or Roman times to a wine-based beverage by the name of Hippocras.  It was often times served warm and could be the origin of…