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Meatballs are easy, but great meatballs? Those are hard. They are coveted and sought after in a sort of fervent mysticism meets adventurer kind of way. We’re pretty confident we found the perfect shortcut to making the perfect meatballs: Nuccio’s.
Their recipe comes from an Italian family lineage where decades were spent perfecting and fine tuning each ingredient until what we have on our shelf was thrust forth in a seemingly modest package. It’s not over spiced or heavy handed, it’s delightful. It’s like being an old Italian grandmother’s kitchen as soon as they cook up. We also love the mix in meatloafs for a great blend of flavor, added in dashes to hamburgers for interest – there is something just so tasty about this meatball blend. Like your meatballs with a touch of heat? We do too sometimes, and the zippy spice provided from Nuccio’s Spicy Meatball mix is great. Adds interest to an otherwise normal bowl of pasta and meatballs or spice up a Chicken Parm. Anyway you add their mixes in, they’ll give it some real authentic Italian flavor.
Pick up a pack of either (or both) and get cooking with your inner Italian grandmother. Have you had Nuccio’s? Leave us a comment, or share your ideas.
When winter comes and the deluge of dark chewy reds comes down the pipe, sometimes all we want is a light and tasty white wine. That is where Alpha Zeta Soave comes in handy, it’s a great drinking wine that everyone is sure to enjoy.
We’ve carried Uncle John’s Cider for a few years. It’s great on those first fall nights or to crack open in the deep winter in front of a fire or on the patio with a warm breeze rolling through. Cider can be the perfect alternative to wine or beer at all times of the year, but we can’t help but think of them when the leaves start turning.
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From the mashing up of fourteen year old plants comes a sweetener that dissipates as fast as simple sugar in drinks, like needy cocktails, or as a sugar substitute in baking. But some of this is old hat when it comes to Agave. But What about tasty infused flavors?
In the vast expanse of flavor combinations, from sweet and savory, salty and sugary, and more – there is one often forgotten, one that is overlooked often because it can be hard to nail down well. Guess who brought a hammer?
We’ve got this thing, this… obsession with chocolate, and if you know anything about us – 
There are good reasons behind the name of this line of wines from the diverse soil plot of Paso Robles – from the driving ocean winds, shifting temperatures of forty degrees in a day, hard snowfall winters, and blazing hundred degree days during the summers, the vines grow in a ecology unlike anywhere else. This does well for the grapes though, creating a uniform flavor and strong terroir. This all accounts to a low yielding plantation but some very focused wines, rich and wonder wines in the sheer