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We Asked 8 Sommeliers: What Supermarket Wine Do You Secretly Love?

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We asked eight sommeliers to find out. ” —Taylor Adams, sommelier/general manager, The Kingsway , New Orleans “My go-to ‘supermarket wine’ for the summer months is the Penedès Blanc Selecció, Huguet de Can Feixes 2023. So what supermarket wines bring professionals fuss-free joy? appeared first on VinePair.

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What It’s Like To Be a Pregnant Bartender

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In 2023, shortly after LP OBrien announced she was pregnant, a client backed out of a contract. I had never seen a pregnant sommelier, James remembers. They emailed me to say, We just want to be mindful of your situation. So were going to go in another direction, says the entrepreneur and CEO of LP Drinks Co.

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We’re Recapping Chilled 100 ELEVATE 2023: Raising the Bar: Choose Your Own Adventure Seminar

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The post We’re Recapping Chilled 100 ELEVATE 2023: Raising the Bar: Choose Your Own Adventure Seminar appeared first on Chilled Magazine. Investing in your people returns to you multifold,” she said. Retention is key to company culture, to your bottom line, to pretty much everything. It’s very intersectional.”

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5 to Try: Burgundy Wines

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Burgundy “is the wine connoisseur’s region,” says Nikita Malhotra, head sommelier of Burgundy wine event, La Paulée. Since the wines are in a higher price bracket, learning to appreciate the region not only takes an investment of money but time and energy.

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We Asked 9 Sommeliers: Which One Wine Is on Your Holiday Wish List?

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We asked nine sommeliers across the world to share the epic bottles on their own holiday wish lists. Read on to hear the pros wax poetic about the wines they’re wishing for in 2023. The wines on sommeliers’ holiday wish lists in 2023: Cruse Wine Co. Eric Moorer, sommelier, Gemini , Washington, D.C. Wonder no more.

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Denisse Soto’s Latin American Cocktail Program at Chicago’s Cariño

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In 2023, she curated the cocktail program at Cariño, a new Latin American fine dining restaurant in Chicago, creating unique drinks inspired by Latin American flavors and ingredients. In June 2021, she founded Denise Soto With Flair LLC and launched La Chingona Miks, a line of drink mixers.

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A New Wave of French Wine Bars

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To Jon Bonné, managing editor of Resy and author of The New French Wine (Ten Speed Press, 2023), the return of France as a dominant news peg in the wine world feels a little like a homecoming. Molly Wismeier, sommelier and co-owner of MaMou in New Orleans. Across the U.S., Photo by Sam Hanna Photography MaMou bar.

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