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Summertime Calls for Sparkling: Cocktail Inspiration Featuring Moscato d’Asti and Asti Spumante Wines

VinePair

But as you stare blankly at the liquor store shelf, youre struck by the age-old question: Where do I begin? So now that the sun is shining, the pool is open, and the bottle of Asti DOCG is popped, youre in need of a cocktail. Gershwin was onto something with that lyric. And doesn’t it make you crave a sparkling cocktail?

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Colin Asare-Appiah Is Reshaping the Bar World

Imbibe Magazine

One day, the owner quizzed him, asking him where a certain bottle of liquor was from. The owner then told him to polish all the bottles behind the bar. Newly curious as to what he might be missing, he began to look at the back labels as he cleaned each bottle, absorbing each spirits backstory. Hes been there ever since.

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The Definitive Timeline of Bourbon ‘Taters’

VinePair

Was the ur-tater seen as a part of an intelligentsia that simply cared and knew a bit more about the earliest bottles of the day? But taters were willing to pay a lot more than the meager MSRP distilleries set their bottles at. If so, that wouldn’t last long, and the term would quickly become derisive. So what was an $80 MSRP George T.

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Review: Inspiro Tequila Luna Blanco and Rosa Reposado (2025)

Drinkhacker

Mara Smith, a former Chicago attorney, launched the Inspiro Tequila brand in 2021. As a lover of tequila, Smith felt it was difficult to know which tequilas on liquor store shelves were truly additive-free, which is a growing concern amongst tequila consumers and which continues to draw controversy.

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Jack Daniel’s 10 Year Old: Your 7 Biggest Questions, Answered

The Whiskey Wash

In 2021, for the first time in over a century, Jack Daniel’s released a whiskey with an age statement to the U.S. It is bottled at 97 proof (48.5% Only a limited number of bottles are produced each year, and demand is high. Bottles tend to sell out fast, and once they hit the secondary market, prices rise sharply.

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We Ask Founders Steven and Brittany Yeng About Taking a Shot with Skrewball Whiskey

Chilled Magazine

It’s grown into an international consumer favorite, proven by our 2021 consumer retail growth rate of 1,976%, when we sold over 1M cases in just our third year on the market. What inspired your whiskey? It all began with formulating a creative shot in a Yeng family-owned bar in San Diego. How hard can it be?”

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

Chilled Magazine

By the late 50s Hood River Distillers had begun blending and bottling spirits for distribution throughout the Pacific Northwest. Our stunning homebase in the shadow of Oregon’s Mount Hood provides us access to glacier-fed spring water, and this water is used in all products that are produced and bottled at Hood River Distillers.