Lavender Lemon Spritz - Drinking History When sipping a L’Apéro les Trois Lavender Lemon Spritz on a hot summer day with friends and family, while someone splashes in a pool or riverside, history is probably not uppermost in your mind. However, both lavender and lemons have long histories that are part of this drink. Provence, in southern France, [...]

Orchard Bliss Winters is an historic orchard town, tucked up against the California Coast Range in Yolo County. The country roads in and around the small town have been lined with swaths of orchards for over a hundred years. Now, in early May, the bloom is over, replaced by budding fruit. Apricots, prunes, peaches, nectarines, and cherries are [...]

What’s a Green Walnut Broken Negroni? There are innumerable variations on Negronis today, including a Green Walnut one, but it all started long ago at the Caffé Campari in Milan. The cafe was opened in 1867 by Gaspare Campari who had created a variety of bitter drinks, among them the scarlet red drink that would become known [...]