The World’s Top 10 Wine Destinations for 2025
Wine has had a shaky start to the year, from the continued decline in sales to European wine’s uncertain future in the U.S. — and American wine’s future abroad — amid the Trump ...
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The VinePair Podcast: Why Don’t Big Companies Buy Affordable Wine Brands?
Regardless of industry, the dream for virtually every brand is to grow large enough to eventually get scooped up by a large conglomerate in exchange for millions of dollars. For some, ...
No One Wants to Talk About the Oversupply of Scotch and Bourbon
The story of whiskey for the last 20 years has been nothing but positive. After decades of declining sales in the late 20th century, established whiskey categories like Scotch, bourbon, and ...
Oregon Wine Country: A Haven for Intrepid Palates and Adventurous Souls
May in Oregon wine country brings bright wines and verdant vineyard rows. Tasting rooms from southern Oregon up through the Willamette Valley and east to The Rocks District of ...
Utopias, Nuclear Penguins, and the Quest for the World’s Strongest Beer
April 16, 2009: A landslide in Kyrgyzstan kills 16 people. Bolivian police foil an international plot to assassinate President Evo Morales. And, in Fraserburgh, Scotland, BrewDog ...
Jukebox Blues: The Songs Every Bartender Is Sick of Hearing
Anyone who’s ever worked in retail is well acquainted with the sonic torture that comes with the holiday season. For a full month — often longer — virtually every business has the same ...
Ask a Sommelier: Why Isn’t Wine Served in Chilled Glasses?
There’s nothing quite like drinking an ice-cold Martini out of a freshly frosted glass. So if sipping gin or vodka out of cold stemware feels like such a luxury, why don’t we do the same ...
The VinePair Podcast: Wine Needs to Embrace Casual Dining
Wine service in high-end restaurants isn’t geared for speed. It’s geared for leisure, hand-holding, and an aura of sophistication, but that’s not always what people are regularly in the ...
For Over 100 Years, California Winemakers Called This Grape by the Wrong Name
Before the establishment of the American Viticultural Area (AVA) system, winemaking in the United States was a bit like the Wild West. There was the challenge of cultivating European grape ...
7 Cocktails to Make with Coffee Liqueur That Aren’t Espresso Martinis
Several years into Espresso Martini-mania, what appeared to be a trend at first is proving to be a new staple in cocktail bars across the globe. And as much as bartenders occasionally bemoan ...
Walmart’s Ripoff Beers Are a Recession Indicator. Brewers Must Answer Anyway.
The general thesis of the craft-brewing “movement” — such as it was/is — at its founding midway through last century was that beer wasn’t a commodity until macrobrewers made it into one. ...
Wine 101: The History of Rosé Part III: Palace Mateus
As we continue our journey through the history of rosé, we approach a pivotal turning point that brought the wine style from its home in Europe to the rest of the world. It all began in ...
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