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We Asked 12 Bartenders: What’s the Most Underrated Bar Tool?

VinePair

So many things drop behind equipment; [it also] makes it easier to spot liquor levels when doing inventory. Bernadette James, sommelier and bartender, The Living Room , Dover, N.H. .” Brynn Smith, bar director, Bar Next Door , Los Angeles The flashlight! I use it every day. The channel knife doesn’t get its due.

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A Guide to Indie Wine Shops Across America

Imbibe Magazine

Beaupierre Wine & Spirits (Manhattan) In a slim space in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen lies this friendly, family-run shop opened by a husband-and-wife team of New York natives: Michelin-starred sommelier Yannick Benjamin and former David Burke beverage director Heidi Turzyn. Try something new at one of their bi-weekly wine tastings.

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We Ask Nikki McCutcheon, Beverage Director, What’s in a (Cocktail) Name?

Chilled Magazine

At 24, experiencing a full-on quarter-life crisis, I shifted my focus to beverages, earning my Certified Sommelier certificate. Over the next four years, I mastered the art of inventory, bar management, cocktail development, and wine list curation.

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A New Wave of French Wine Bars

Imbibe Magazine

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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Millennials Are Entering Their Collecting Years — Will They Buy the Same Wines Boomers Did?

VinePair

With the exception of post-pandemic inventory drama continuing to crunch cash flow, many of these producers, generally $20 to $30 and up, are chugging along and more or less weathering the storm. Mike Zima, former New York sommelier and founder of curated luxury online retail and import outfit SommPicks , agrees with that viewpoint.

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The Biggest Wine Stories From 2023

VinePair

In May, news broke that the wine shop had allegedly failed to deliver $1 million in paid inventory to customers. And maybe even more concerning than the ridiculous ocean-aged wine scam was the takedown of one of New York’s preeminent luxury wine purveyors, Sherry-Lehmann. In addition to the missing wines, Sherry-Lehmann owed the state $2.8

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2024 Bartender Spirits Awards Final Call For Entry. Enter Your Spirits Before April 24.

Bartender.com

The judges consider two key aspects while judging spirits from around the world at the competition, whether they will add great value to a bar’s existing spirits inventory and become an integral part of a mixologist’s everyday life behind the table.