Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Fruit Sangria Blanca


Very tasty wine-based drink.  Dessert drink full of fruit flavors.  Recipe for 8.
10 grapes
4 strawberries
1 peach
1 bottle of white sparkling wine (dry)
1.5 cups of grape juice (white)                         
2 sprigs of mint
half a cup of vanilla liqueur


Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Rum - the drink of pirates or the elites of society?

Rum was never just a drink.  It is a symbol pirate outlaws, courage bourgeois gloss.  This drink equalizer deck and the captain, slave and master and the common people know.  Who has not dreamed of one day a sip straight from the bottle, rocking on the ship?  But rum has a story, a long, complicated, even bloody.
Rum: history of discovery

The main component of Roma - molasses is produced from sugar cane.  This syrup is distilled to enrich additives and get what we call rum.