Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

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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Chilled Magazine

JULY 29, 2024

Additionally, the restaurant offers a collection of agave-based spirits, craft beer, and a portfolio of Latin American wines curated by Jean Banchet Award-nominated sommelier Richie Ribando (Smyth, The Loyalist, Next).

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Cheers

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Spoiled for choice Across all three tiers, the Hilton Managed Beverage Program includes domestic and import beers, as well as craft breweries from 11 U.S. regions, representing dozens of different styles and over 100 possible craft beers in total. Hard seltzers, with malt- and spirit-based options, round out the offerings.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 1, 2024

Sommeliers and beverage directors are finding inspiration in Spain’s relatively recent wine renaissance, from the revival of indigenous varietals to boundary-pushing new styles. . Bar Vinazo, Brooklyn, New York The newest venture from sommelier, author, and restaurateur Joe Campanale, Bar Vinazo celebrates his love for Spanish wines.

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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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Australian Bartender

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Presidential Visit is an old fashioned with Michter’s Bourbon, Lagavulin Single Malt, root beer bitters, tonka bean, and orange liqueur, tipping the hat to President Lyndon Johnson’s visit to Sydney in 1966. Highlights include the tilda Martini, made with Archie Rose gin, dry vermouth, Ferrand orange curacao, and dry eucalyptus bitters.

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VinePair

AUGUST 12, 2024

From German Wegbier , open-container beer drunk on Berlin streets and en route to Bavarian biergarten, to cross-continent rail journeys, Europeans love to combine the necessity of travel with the pleasure of a good glass. But it’s a vital part of the culture in Germany, where 84 percent of beer is consumed packaged rather than on draft.

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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

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

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? Tune in for more.

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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. Tune in for more.

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Bar Magazine

JUNE 26, 2024

The eighth edition of the London Wine, Spirits, and Beer Competitions proudly introduces its inaugural Regional and Category Ambassadors Program for the 2025 edition. She is multilingual and passionate about wine education, aspiring to be one of the leading female sommeliers.

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Crafted with precision and designed for effortless uncorking, this 2-in-1 wine & beer opener makes opening bottles a breeze. The parrot head on it also makes it a beer bottle opener (or soda, etc.). Its extra strong construction means it will last you years to come, even after opening thousands of bottles of wine & beer.

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PubClub

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Beer lovers raise a pilsner at Pilsner Urquell The Original Beer Experience Prague. Photo: Pilsner Urquell The Original Beer Experience One of the fun things for PubClubbers to do when traveling is to take brewery tours. A Beer Sommelier Dinner, pairing gourmet meals with Pilsner Urquell (and unfiltered in September!).

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Zach is reading: Do Sommeliers Actually Try Every Bottle of Wine on Their Lists? Plus, a rant against tap cocktails! Tune in for more.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Zach is reading: Has the Title Master Sommelier Become a Paradox? After a year of declining visitations, the trio speculate that the region as a whole was too quick to assume the post-pandemic landscape and model would be the new normal, instead of a strange outlier. Tune in for more.

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Good Spirits News

JULY 15, 2024

All The Bitter makes classically inspired cocktail bitters using organic, functional ingredients free of alcohol, full of flavor, and designed by Michelin-trained sommeliers. Equally at home in full strength, low- and no-alcohol cocktails, their bitters also make a great addition to sparkling water, tonic, ginger ale, tea, and beer.

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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. Tickets are now on sale for the 2024 Charleston Wine + Food Festival.

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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

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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Spiritz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The Product Debut of the Year category showcased nominees across different segments such as spirits, wines, and beers. The Bartender of the Year and Sommelier of the Year awards celebrated excellence in drink service, where the jury deliberated on skill, creativity, and guest satisfaction.

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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. November 2023.

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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

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. Here are the cool, current, and flat-out excellent drinks you should try in New York right now, according to our editors. April has been a month of intense uncertainty so far.

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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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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

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. Wine pricing on lists across the U.S. Restaurant pricing increases aren’t tenable,” he says.

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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 spirits realm is currently trying and, here and there, pulling off wins.

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Bar Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

Key highlights include the revitalised masterclass schedule, the Sommelier Wine Awards (SWA) results ceremony, The Great Imbibe Live Shake Off competition and the new much-anticipated Campo de Agave theatre, an oasis of agave plant-based spirits masterclasses hosted by Club Cantina.

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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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Bar Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The 7th annual London Spirits , Wine , and Beer Competitions will take place in 2024, and brands looking to get international credibility and product feedback from leading trade buyers, are encouraged to submit their products now. This is a great opportunity for producers and brand owners around the world to grow in 2024.

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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.

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Dry Atlas

AUGUST 28, 2024

They also reveal how they’re winning over both skeptics and sommeliers, while expanding the accessibility of wine for those who wish to enjoy the experience without the effects of alcohol. We observed what had happened on the beer front where, four or five years ago, high quality non-alcoholic beers started to emerge.

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Bar Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

The London Competitions prides itself on having award winning buyers, bartenders, master sommeliers, masters of wine and some of the most influential people working in the drinks industry. Then our beers were sent this year and we have got a lot of attention as we received one gold and 3 silvers.

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