April 22, 2022: Wine & Beer Happenings in Greenwich
BEFORE WE START… Post-Covid, the tasting shows traditionally put on by distributors in the area have really picked up again. I recently...
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frenchyswinerd
- Apr 21, 2022
- 3 min
April 15, 2022: Wine & Beer Happenings in Greenwich
For many, “Dry January” extends into February and March. Yet while consumers may have been hibernating from liquid pleasures, the wine...
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frenchyswinerd
- Jul 9, 2021
- 3 min
Frenchy’s Wine Road Detours to Four Nearby Craft Breweries
Despite the huge growth of breweries in Connecticut, lower Fairfield County has been conspicuously uninvolved in the craft beer movement....
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frenchyswinerd
- Jul 2, 2021
- 4 min
A Review of Two Nearby Breweries
Time waits for no one, and between errands and phone calls this Saturday, my day’s Plan A got away from me. Then Plan B did too. No...
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frenchyswinerd
- Feb 23, 2021
- 3 min
From Cap, Cork & Cellar to Connecticut Wine & Liquor, A Weekly Roundup of Wine Store Offerings
This week the Frenchy’s Wine Road weekly round-up relates what’s going on at some or all of the 24 wine, spirit, and beer specialty...
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frenchyswinerd
- Feb 6, 2021
- 3 min
Weekly Wine Shop Happenings
Today, the Greenwich Free Press and Frenchy’s Wine Road are excited to announce that we are launching a weekly round-up of happenings at...
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frenchyswinerd
- Dec 25, 2020
- 4 min
Frenchy’s Wine Road Continues Its Tour: Cap, Cork & Cellar and Putnam & Vine
There are many Greenwich stores well worth the visit this holiday season. Two more that come to mind are Cap, Cork & Cellar and Putnam &...
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frenchyswinerd
- Dec 21, 2020
- 5 min
Wine Stores in Spotlight during Christmas Season
It is heartening to see how many superlative wine stores we have in Greenwich. At a time when so much of the wine business is...
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frenchyswinerd
- Dec 11, 2020
- 3 min
Wine & Liquor Stores in Greenwich
Spend any time in Greenwich, and you realize that it’s not so much a Town as a Federation of Villages, each forming a Neighborhood, the...
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frenchyswinerd
- Apr 4, 2020
- 2 min
Retail Wine Stores – On the Front Line?
No one would pretend that package store employees are dealing with the same risks as Police, Firefighters, or Medical Personnel. But like...
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frenchyswinerd
- Apr 1, 2020
- 2 min
Retail Wine Stores Posting Record Profits in Greenwich
Ten days ago, Governor Lamont ordered employees of non-essential businesses to work from home. The order contained a list of exceptions...
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frenchyswinerd
- Jan 2, 2018
- 4 min
Is Your Beer Vegan?
There is a new beer at Glenville Wine & Spirits called Trinity Super Hazel. Its vegan claim is oddly worded “Our Beers are Consciously...
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frenchyswinerd
- Mar 30, 2011
- 4 min
The infinite variety of beers
From the (late) Greenwich Citizen: Beer has a seemingly infinite variety of styles. Yet the necessary ingredients for beer form a short...
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frenchyswinerd
- Feb 4, 2011
- 5 min
CRAFTING A GOOD SUPER BOWL PARTY
From the (late) Greenwich Citizen: I thought Super Bowl week a good time for a diversion from wine to the world of beer. It’s not that...
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