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New Orleans Bartender Geoffrey Wilson Helps Others Find Power and Purpose

Imbibe Magazine

The organization was created to help historically underrepresented groups rise in the bar and liquor industries—not simply as pourers of beer and clearers of glassware, but as highly respected professionals in the field. The bar and liquor trade can be indifferent or downright hostile, especially to those from the outside.

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The Best Place to Buy Rare and Hard-to-Find Wines

Advanced Mixology

Marketview Liquor should be your first stop for some of the most sought-after rare wines on the market at affordable prices. Marketview Liquor Aging Like Fine Wine Marketview Liquor has a distinguished pedigree. It started out as Vintage Liquors a part-time venture the Palmeri brothers Mike and Dan opened in 1972.

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The Definitive Timeline of Bourbon ‘Taters’

VinePair

Sensing a need for transparency, two bourbon price guides — Bourbon Blue Book and Bottle Blue Book — were launched in 2014 to track prices based on recent gray market sales trends. This first occurred on platforms like eBay and Craigslist, both of which would eventually ban the practice of reselling alcohol.

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We Celebrate 90 Years of Hood River Distillers with President and CEO David Ballew

Chilled Magazine

Founders Albert Peters, Edwin Pooley, and Edgar McClain began making fruit wine and brandies from the abundance of fruit in the region, taking only a brief hiatus to make industrial alcohol for the war effort.

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Everything You Need To Know About McDowell’s No.1

The Whiskey Wash

Beginning distillation, Vittal Mallya pioneered the creation of the Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) category of alcohol – a blanket term for Indian-made versions of Western spirits categories produced using molasses-based spirit combined with flavoring, spices, or blended with imported spirits, such as scotch whisky.

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10 Things You Should Know About New Riff Distilling

VinePair

When New Riff Distilling founder Ken Lewis got his start in the alcohol business, it was only meant to be temporary. In the 1980s at 24, he was teaching high school English when his father asked for his help operating a small local liquor store called Liquor Outlet. New Riff’s flagship whiskeys include a bourbon and a rye.

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This Cult Oregon Winery Just Moved to… Philadelphia?

VinePair

When Caruso arrived in Oregon in 2014, he recalls it “felt like the Wild West.” Right Place at the Right Time While Philly has cheesesteaks and craft breweries abound, wine-focused spots are typically few and far between, partly because of Pennsylvania’s notoriously strict laws around the sale and distribution of alcohol.

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