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Dutch Apple Pie is the best version of apple pie! Instead of a top crust, you enjoy a sweet crumble topping over a mound of delicious apples. Everyone will agree that this is the best apple pie they’ve ever had. Use your own homemade pie crust or save some time and use a pre-made store-bought crust. Either way, this pie will knock your socks off. A few more delicious recipes to try this holiday season are pumpkin pie , cherry pie , and this perfect coconut cream pie ! I know you’ll love them all! Homemade Dutch Apple Pie Everyone loves to bake this time of year. You just can’t beat the wonderful aroma of apples and cinnamon baking in a warm kitchen. This is the sort of thing memories are made of! As far as holiday desserts go, you really can’t go wrong with an apple pie. Take it one step further with this best-ever Dutch apple pie recipe! This Dutch apple pie is so good for so many reasons. I love the combination of the crust and the crumble topping. The sweet topping really bal

Shutterstock The year was 1984. The Iron Curtain still had a stronghold on Europe , casting its shadow on anything east of the Austro-Hungarian border. Robert Wenzel, a grape grower in the Burgenland region of Austria , made the potentially dangerous trek to Hungary to bring back cuttings of Furmint . The idea was to revive what was once the most popular white grape variety in his village of Rust. Robert had permission from Austrian authorities but not from the communist Hungarians. At that time, crossing the border took several hours. Robert’s father, who was in the car with him, tried to break the tedium by playing his tárogató, a woodwind instrument similar to the clarinet commonly used in Hungarian folk music. The elder Wenzel’s Hungarian tunes were forbidden at the time, as Russian rule prohibited any expression of national identity. “It was a difficult time, and my father and grandfather weren’t really sure if they would be allowed to bring the cuttings back,” says Michael

Getty Images For decades, many wine lovers and producers discounted biodynamic farming as nothing more than pseudoscience. That’s starting to change as evidence mounts of the philosophy’s positive impact on vineyard health and wine flavor—even as its more out-there aspects remain unproven. “We found that after converting to biodynamic farming, our vines were stronger, healthier and more disease tolerant,” notes Jasper Raats, cellar master and managing director at Longridge Wine Estate , first planted in 1841 in Stellenbosch, South Africa . “And the wines themselves also have a zest and vitality that was missing previously.” For those unfamiliar with biodynamic farming, it is a holistic approach to land management rooted in the early 20th-century work of Austrian -born educator and social reformer Dr. Rudolf Steiner. Steiner’s philosophy regards each farm as a self-sustaining system that entails a very specific form of organic farming, influenced by astrological and spiritual prin