Benton City, Washington’s Col Solare Winery isn’t yet licensed to sample their exceptional grappa at their tasting room, but let me take the guesswork out of the equation for you—it’s worth diving in and buying a whole bottle. Col Solare was born as a Red Mountain...
Seattle-based distiller Skip Tognetti named his operation Letterpress to allude to how he makes his spirits—by hand, so it’s apparent to anyone who tastes them that the finished product was created with intention and care (read more about it here). Letterpress...
Coffee is an Instagrammable beverage, as evidenced by the near-obligatory posting of it by Instagrammers of all kinds. Whether you're seated at a sidewalk café with a freshly poured, rosetta-topped latte, or watching cream mixing in curlicues into cold brew, it...
The iris has long been prized for its colorful beauty, delicate aroma and noble connotations. Since the Renaissance it has symbolized the long-flourishing Italian city of Florence, where the world’s most famous iris garden can be found. Today irises still decorate...
Lavender is a delicate flavor to concentrate into a liqueur, but as Salish Sea Organic Liqueurs does nothing but what their name suggests, who better to take on the task? Though less than a year old, the Lacey, Washington-based producers have already experimented...
With the right base liquor, the right beans and the right amount of time, making your own coffee liqueurs is as easy as pie. Once made, they’re a wonderful after-dinner sipper, a perfect way to spike your mid-afternoon brew, a delicious means of amping up your ice...
Starka has long been an underground spirit, both figuratively and literally. Derived from the Eastern European tradition for new fathers to bury a wine barrel full of vodka when a child is born (to be consumed at the child’s wedding years later), the distillate has...
Seven generations. That’s how long the recipe for Vinn Distillery’s Vinn baijiu has been in the Ly family. It’s also how long the family has been distilling spirits both for ceremonial consumption and everyday use. Over the course of those seven generations, the...
Last year, we thought cold brew in kegs was awesome. (Make no mistake—it absolutely still is.) We were also falling head over heels for cold brew cocktails. In the 12 months since then, Northwest cold brew producers haven’t been slacking off—rather, they’ve been...
New Deal’s Distillery’s Portland 88 vodka is…proof that over-proof vodkas can be clean and crisp, and carry a pleasant hint of flavor. Southeast Portland-distilled since 2004 (New Deal is the founding member of the neighborhood's Distillery Row), the 44 percent ABV...
