Bars & Clubs - May 5, 2005
Bag-in-the-box wine busts out with new image
Once upon a headache, box wines fell into the same category as Ramen noodles: something college students, starving artists, frugal penny-pinchers and the financially challenged bought because they were on-the-cheap. That's no longer the case.
Tags: wine, wineblast, brandy, liquor stores, discount liquor, vineyard, grapes

Bars & Clubs - Sept. 12, 2004
Wisconsinites' love affair with brandy
It's rumored that our state is not only populated with beer swillers, but brandy slammers as well. A few Internet sites even reported that Wisconsin is responsible for 90 percent of the world's brandy consumption, so we decided to go straight to the source: Korbel, the top brandy maker in the United States.
Tags: brandy, tavern, cocktail