Month: June 2017

Produce

Indulge Local: Serres Ranch Blueberries

At Mollie Stone’s, we are very proud to be able to bring the Bay Area produce and other products that are local. We encourage our customers to indulge local as it is a great way to support our Bay Area businesses and communities.

Massively sweet blueberries from Serres Ranch have become a local and popular favorite. Learn more about this family-owned company  in a Q&A we did with them below:

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Father’s Day Gifts Done Right: The Dalmore

Father’s Day doesn’t always get the same consideration as Mother’s Day. Which is perhaps how it should be (and just how Dad would want you to prioritize things) but it means that the gift buying becomes a last minute scramble, defaults to tired convention (the dreaded tie), or both. This year, at Mollie Stone’s, The Dalmore single malt Scotch whisky has your upgrade. Actually, they’ve got four.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve covered some history of Scotch whisky and parsed ..read more

Wine, Spirits, & Beer

At the Apex of Single Malt Scotch

Welcome back, whisky fans.  Last week—if you remember— we cracked into a bit of background on Scotch whisky, and the seductive single malt. And today, as promised, I’m narrowing our focus a bit, to a small but legendary distillery called The Dalmore.

Beginning

An enterprising chap (and future member of parliament) named Alexander Matheson founded The Dalmore Distillery in 1839, among the sloping fields of the Northern Highlands, at the banks of the Cromarty Firth, where bracing waters feed out to the ..read more

Wine, Spirits, & Beer

Introduction to Single Malt Scotch

It’s a great time to be a whisky fan (or a whiskey fan, if you must). Thanks to the swing of the pop-culture pendulum away from vodka, our on-going obsession with all things “craft,” and Don Draper’s penchant for an old fashioned, there are now more brown bottles on shelves than ever before, from all over the world. That’s exciting. But at the top of that shelf, where it’s always been, you’ll still find the granddaddy of them all, unequaled ..read more