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New late-night wine bar Letra House opens in Sydney’s CBD

Australian Bartender

Notable wines include the Apostolos Thymispolous Xinomavro 2021, a fruit-forward, crunchy red from Greece, and the rare Paolo Bea Arboreus 2016, an orange wine made with skin-contact Trebbiano.

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Bartenders With International Acclaim Find New Life in NYC

VinePair

Credit: Bar Snack For the Experimental Cocktail Club which was founded in Paris in 2007 this was not their first New York rodeo. That branch, on Chrystie Street on the Lower East Side, lasted until 2016. De Soto has since opened his own bars, including Mace in New York and Danico in Paris. ECC is back! This is perfect for us.

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Featured Bartender Summer 2024: Steve Schenider

Bartender.com

He became one of the principal bartenders, then the bar manager, which as he says, “prepared me for my ultimate goal…being a bar owner.” In 2016 Steve opened Employees Only in Singapore. “I From there he was recruited at Employees Only in NYC where Steve “found people that were doing exactly what I wanted to do.”

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Creating Culinary Cocktails With Schmuck’s Juliette Larrouy and Moe Aljaff

VinePair

Moe left Sweden at 18 to travel the world, living in India, Thailand, Amsterdam, and eventually Spain, where he perfected the fun, playful, raucous side of hospitality in dive bars. He waxes poetic about a bar manager early in his career who inscribed three crucial words deep in his cerebral cortex: “Flavor is king.”

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We Asked 20 Sommeliers: Which Wine Do You Wish People Ordered More? (2024)

VinePair

Roderick Williams, bar manager and certified sommelier, Smoked , Columbia, S.C. “I Some highlights that I would point guests towards on Penny’s list: 2016 Maxime Magnon La Bégou, 2021 Imanol Garay Ixilune, and 2007 Mas Jullien Pays d’Hérault Blanc.” I wish guests weren’t so afraid to order Chardonnay.

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25 Bartending Blogs That you should check out in 2022

Today's Bartender

Jeffrey Morgenthaler Author of ‘The Bar Book,’ Jeffrey Morgenthaler is one of the most influential bartenders/bar managers/owners in the industry. To prove it, she’s been a finalist for Saveur’s 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018 best cocktail blog award. Favorite Post : 5 Essential Soft Skills for Great Bar Managers 7.

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Bartending Blogs You Should Read

Today's Bartender

To prove it, she’s been a finalist for Saveur’s 2014, 2015 AND 2016 best cocktail blog award. Favorite Post : 5 Essential “Soft Skills” for Great Bar Managers 6) Punch Punch is a James Beard Award-winning online magazine that writes about wine, spirits, beer, and cocktails. And often about bartending too.