Imbibe Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sommelier Doreen Winkler leaned into the former, launching the first orange wine subscription service in 2019. Despite its ancient roots and modern popularity, orange wine still lacks a legal definition and currently remains categorized under white wine.

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Imbibe Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

On a bustling evening at New York’s Contento , a restaurant celebrated for its globe-trotting fare and wine program, head sommelier Abe Zarate faces a challenge from diners eager to try a wine similar to the light, fruity profiles of Pinot Noir or Beaujolais. “I I have just the thing,” Zarate says, excited to introduce a unique find.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Molly Wismeier, sommelier and co-owner of MaMou in New Orleans. Photo by Michael Mantese Molly Wismeier , a Food & Wine Sommelier of the Year with more than 30 years of experience, has had a front-row seat to the rapid evolution in the French wine world. Photo by Sam Hanna Photography MaMou bar.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

An advanced sommelier and alum of spots like New York City’s Eleven Madison Park, de Pano opened her wine shop in late 2022 and highlights terroir-driven wines, with a particular affinity for low alcohol and high acid. Drink it while enjoying a heaping bowl of chirashizushi.”

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Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

As an international kikisake-shi (sake sommelier) and the first to receive the title of Miss Sake USA in 2016, Jessica Joly, marketing director at Sake Discoveries , appreciates how premium sake can be served at an array of temperatures: “On the rocks, cold, room temperature, warm, lukewarm, hot, extremely hot—it is unlike any other alcoholic beverage,” (..)

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Take the beer industry by comparison: Some brewers may want to make funky saisons and offbeat pilsner styles, but they still make IPAs because thats what the people want. Frozen Drinks Zach is reading: Why Did the Sommelier Take My Bottle of Wine Away After Opening It? Joanna is reading: This Winters Hottest Cocktail Trend?

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VinePair

JULY 9, 2024

No one is more attuned to the changes than Aubrey Bailey and Taylor Domin, the owners of Cadet Wine and Beer. Instead, wine (and beer) are the foundations on which it was built. When we first started, it was like somms were kings, and everyone walking around Napa was a Master Sommelier candidate,” says Bailey. “We

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VinePair

AUGUST 27, 2024

Although the beer and spirits industries have long come to terms with this reality, wine is still attached to this unsubstantiated belief that a glass or two a day is good for your health. Everybody knows that sugar, fast food, and red meat aren’t good for you, yet we still consume them. The same goes for alcohol. That’s OK.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Zach is reading: Do Sommeliers Actually Try Every Bottle of Wine on Their Lists? Tune in for more.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Zach is reading: Has the Title Master Sommelier Become a Paradox?

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VinePair

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Though not every chef, sommelier, brewer, and winemaker who breaks bread at Charleston Wine + Food is a South Carolina native, the Lowcountry is dutifully represented, and the others appreciate the recognition the state has carved out for itself in the food and drink realm. This article is sponsored by the Charleston Wine + Food Festival.

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VinePair

MAY 31, 2024

Beer and wine flow as cheerful conversation echoes well into the night, and old-timers and youngsters alike eat, drink, and dance the evening away to wildly suggestive “ Pimba ” tunes from back in the day. All that richness needs a counterpoint, and of course there’s beer aplenty. So it’s not necessarily about the pairing.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Karis Visth is the restaurant manager and head sommelier at KOKS. Are there beers or spirits from Greenland? We chose to brew our own beer for the KOKS Ilimanaq project in collaboration with the Faroese brewery OY. The beer is crafted with two typically Greenlandic products — blueberries and juniper.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Trappist Beer Travels, Second Edition: Inside the Breweries of the Monasteries Caroline Wallace, Sarah Wood, and Jessica Deahl, Schiffer Publishing, March 2023. Anyone who falls firmly in the center of the history-buff-beer-geek Venn diagram will appreciate this deep dive into traditional Trappist beer-making.

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VinePair

APRIL 11, 2025

When the VinePair team isnt busy working at HQ, were in the field doing what we do best: scoping out the best cocktails, wine, and beer in the five boroughs. The article What to Drink in NYC Right Now (April 2025) appeared first on VinePair. April has been a month of intense uncertainty so far.

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Cheers

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The CIA’s beers are sold in all of its restaurants and distributed by CBG from Westchester County up to Lake Placid, NY. In addition to its cocktail and wine programs, the Institute has a brewery on campus that was named Brewery of the Year for New York State in 2019, and is the lab for the Art & Science of Brewing class.

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VinePair

JULY 3, 2024

Though beer, hard seltzer, and cocktails traditionally rule the canned drinks space, there’s a rising number of exceptional wines hitting shelves in this format. Nomadica Orange VinePair’s 2023 Next Wave Award rising drinks brand of the year Nomadica makes sommelier-approved wines more approachable with its beautifully designed cans.

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 11, 2024

And with a push from savvy importers, knowledgeable sommeliers, and curious customers, that type of Spanish wine is only now beginning to percolate onto zeitgeisty wine lists. (If If you’re a fan of Spanish food and wine, see our list of which bars and restaurants should be on your radar.)

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Cheers

JANUARY 2, 2024

Las Torres is the only hotel in Patagonia to brew its own beer — fermented in a small cabin just outside the bar and made with water from the glaciers and hops grown in the organic garden. What’s more, all organic waste from brewing the hotel beer is used to generate compost that is worked back into the garden soil.

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VinePair

JANUARY 19, 2024

Beer has arguably pulled off the NA feat best, cracking the zero proof code and producing genuinely drinkable options that resemble real styles. But craft beer didn’t pull off the miracle overnight and we probably shouldn’t expect the same from wine. The article Making Non-Alcoholic Wine Will Never Be Easy. But what of wine?

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VinePair

JUNE 17, 2024

For some, what starts as a romp with backyard kegs of cheap light beer, nightclub tequila shots, or hangover lord Boone’s Farm , eventually leads down the yellow brick road to a magical, moderated land of Rioja , Riesling , and Rhône. The article Millennials Are Entering Their Collecting Years — Will They Buy the Same Wines Boomers Did?

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VinePair

JULY 18, 2024

Fine wine also can and increasingly is being profitably sold in the land of where rum and beer reign supreme. On Grand Cayman, sommelier Christian Esser has owned and directed wine education center Wineschool3 for 16 years and, tellingly, now co-owns the new wine bar Le Petit Bar Cayman. The article Why Is the U.S.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s why we’re once again rounding up the best drinks gifts of the year, and we’ve got ideas covered for anyone who enjoys cocktails, wine, beer, coffee, or tea. Price: $11 Check It Out Literie Beers at the Ballpark Candle Baseball and beer is a pairing as ubiquitous as chestnuts and an open fire. s leading IPA brewers.

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Bar Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2024

These videos and articles are then converted to Beverage Trade Network’s global media assets. The Ambassadors selected are different personalities ranging from Masters of Wine, Master Sommeliers, Head Bartenders, Mixologisits, Instagramers, YouTubers and Writers. Global ambassador program. Closing date for entries is February 22.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While restaurants historically featured limited selections of beer or soju, the beverage directors at today’s forward-thinking establishments have pushed the boundaries of what Korean drinks programs can look like, with many curating extensive, award-winning wine lists and pairing menus. due to its fermented flavors and preparations.

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Dry Atlas

MAY 15, 2024

With regards to the different terms for no/low alcoholic beverages, I use the following two in this article (they may differ in different parts of the world): Non-alcoholic: This term may be used on malt beverages, provided it contains no more than 0.5% About this list This list shows the bubbles in alphabetical order with a short review.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Despite all her accomplishments in the wine world, Habibi doesn’t have one thing that wine professionals covet: the Master Sommelier pin. When she was a neophyte sommelier she aspired to be the first Black female Master Sommelier. But that changed in 2011.

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VinePair

MARCH 7, 2025

The Only the Somm Can Touch the Wine Rule Plenty of people have been frustrated by restaurants where ONLY the sommelier is allowed to talk about, open, or even look at the wine. My friend politely declined those options and instead ordered something they knew they would like: a beer. Lets dig in. But why do places do this?

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

Curated by certified sommelier Hailey Pruitt, the collection pays special homage to wines from Mexico.” a new project from sommelier-turned-vigneron Rajat Parr. The restaurant’s bar and accompanying wine cellar offer equally impressive programs. It’s the language that chef and Ladino partner Berty Richter grew up speaking at home.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

Several of Corpinnat’s current 11 members—Gramona, Recaredo, Llopart—are favorites of American sommeliers. “I Such a wine proves that, when terroir is respected and the wine is long-aged, even a company churning out more than 30 million bottles per year can produce one that sommeliers of Paronella’s status can declare “beautiful.”

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VinePair

JANUARY 3, 2024

Further downtown, at the Chinese-American restaurant Silver Apricot , managing partner and sommelier Emmeline Zhao also takes a holistic approach to the food and beverage selections. Zhao also encounters doubters at Silver Apricot, and puts the sommelier tradition of blind tasting to good use in such instances, pouring examples from the U.S.

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VinePair

MARCH 21, 2024

As a golden generation of industry professionals ages, that boilermaker regimen (shot and a beer, or two… or three) just isn’t sustainable. Back in the day, it was two shots and a beer as my first post-shift drink,” he says. Now I’d rather have a glass of wine or a strong beer. I just want to feel good in the morning!”

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Today's Bartender

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Punch Punch is a James Beard Award-winning online magazine that writes about wine, spirits, beer, and cocktails. One of their goals is to remove the elitism often associated with the beverage industry (wine in particular) by writing articles on these topics that can be easily understood by anyone.

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Today's Bartender

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

One of their goals is to remove the elitism often associated with the beverage industry (wine in particular) by writing articles on these topics that can be easily understood by anyone. Their articles are always fun & interesting to read and they cover a lot about bartending too. And I think they do a pretty good job of it.

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Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2025

That curiosity bloomed into a full-time career, and today, Austinthe sake sommelier at Muj , a Michelin-star Japanese restaurant in Atlantais excited to contribute to the greatly under-reported Black sake scene in the United States. It was a post-karate-class drink with a friend in Brooklyn where Kiki Austin had her first taste of sake.

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VinePair

APRIL 9, 2025

With thousands of breweries worldwide, craft beer has become a global sensation. Many of these producers are tucked away in destinations one may consider craft beer meccas. Thats why were sharing the very best destinations for beer travel that venture off the beaten path.

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Spiritz

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Kati Patang has won a Gold Medal for its Saffron Lager and the coveted title of ‘India Brewery of the Year’ at the prestigious New York International Beer Competition (NYIBC). “Winning at NYIBC validates our mission to redefine craft beer in India.

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