Cheers

MARCH 22, 2024

We asked the our national wine panel to taste and rate Old World wines from this past year. As always, these selections include brief tasting notes, a rating and the wine’s retail price (which can vary from store to store and market to market). Four Stars (91-86): A very good wine and an excellent value.

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Drinkhacker

AUGUST 6, 2024

Argentina continues to be an outstanding source of wines that hit well above their price point. Today we are looking at 6 wines, all made by winemaker Marcelo Pelleriti with grapes from the Uco Valley in Mendoza, Argentina. A- / $18 2016 Marcelo Pelleriti Selection Blend of Terroir – 54% Malbec, 26% Syrah, and 20% Cabernet Franc.

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VinePair

AUGUST 13, 2024

In 2016, “Big Sam” Allardyce, with his blue-collar charm and Meatloaf-ish looks, was supposed to be the England national soccer team’s everyman hero — a player’s manager straight from central casting, finally fit to lead the “Three Lions” on to ultimate victory since god knows when. We drink our wine by the pint!” Pint bottles of wine.

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VinePair

JUNE 26, 2024

Understanding wine is often about comparisons: If you’re not familiar with a certain variety, what does it remind you of? The issue is tannins, the chewy, often “dusty” remnants of the grapes that coat the mouth, give red wines structure, and make them worthy of aging. Those young California Cabs are quite tannic. Plenty of time.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Your friendly neighborhood wine shop is the perfect resource for fleshing out your wine wish list, as well as making other people’s wine wishes come true. We asked nine sommeliers across the world to share the epic bottles on their own holiday wish lists. The wines on sommeliers’ holiday wish lists in 2023: Cruse Wine Co.

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Imbibe Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2023

However, I’m also game to buck tradition with an unexpected bottle, and the Session Sparkling Wine from Living Roots delivers both cheer and charm. Living Roots is a trans-global creation , founded in 2016 by husband and wife Sebastian and Colleen Hardy.

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VinePair

JANUARY 3, 2024

For some, ordering a round of Champagne or a bottle of Chianti is a dining reflex. But what happens if there’s no French or Italian wine to be found on the menu? Can a sparkling wine from Seneca Lake or a Sangiovese from Mendocino fill the gap? wine industry is rapidly growing in both size and diversity.

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VinePair

JULY 25, 2024

The much-anticipated summer Olympics are kicking off in Paris this week and, given the host city, there’s almost as much discourse around the event’s food and wine as the games themselves. So how can you replicate what’s arguably one of the world’s best wine-drinking destinations at home? That shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

It’s the next phase in a professional arc for Swanson, whose star began to rise when she became head brewer at Austin’s Jester King Brewery in 2016, and continued when she launched Keeping Together in 2019 from borrowed space inside Chicago’s Half Acre Beer Co.

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Drink Me

OCTOBER 20, 2023

5 wines that will go down a scream on Halloween Halloween is as famous for its scares, and also for a certain amount of indulgence. wines that put the BOO in Boozy on Halloween and remain delicous while they last. The Vice Wines Orange of Gewurztraminer, 2022 An orange wine for Halloween? Drink up, witches! Sign us up!

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VinePair

JANUARY 31, 2024

While Chenin Blanc is considered South Africa’s signature white wine (as I pointed out in my last column ), the country’s less heralded Sauvignon Blancs may be South Africa’s key to greater recognition and prominence in the wine world. Still, at a mere $9, the wine delivers, and you can read about it below.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

Opened in 2016 by Tucson natives Ronnie and Christian Spece, Batch boasts one of the largest whiskey collections in the state, with more than 1,000 unique labels and counting. In addition to their signature Old Fashioned, the bar, bottle shop, and part-time bakery crafts cocktails like the Notorious F.I.G.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 28, 2023

One of the most widely known Champagne brands on the market, you may have first heard it referenced in a song on the radio, or recognized its distinct appearance in a wine shop or nightclub. Either way, there’s no denying that this prestigious bottle of bubbly has made its mark on pop culture.

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Drinkhacker

MAY 12, 2024

Hard as it is to believe, Laura Catena has managed to squeeze in working on the family wines, running a medical clinic, the La Posta and Altaland lines, and who knows what else to establish a line of Pinot Noirs. After thorough scrutiny, their efforts culminated in the commencement of bottling in 2016.

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Liquorista

AUGUST 2, 2021

Red blend Wine originated from the innovation of new complexities from the traditional red wine formulas by creating an entirely new mixture containing multiple grape varieties. This wine also has an ageability of 2025–2035. It contains the classic style of Mouton with intense black-currant fruits from 81% Cabernet Sauvignon.

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The Whiskey Wash

JULY 19, 2024

These barrels have normally been used to mature a different spirit, wine, or beer. Sherry, port, and wine are among the most common finishing casks for bourbon. Bottled at 115 proof (57.5% Then, it was married together with an additional 9 year old Kentucky bourbon prior to bottling at 100 proof.

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Chilled Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

Samuel Boulton (of “Suds n Duds” in Birmingham) created the Lime Leaf and won in 2016. We are excited that the new family ownership, Aurelien Piffaut and his team, have decided to use the original iconic square bottle used for our Gabriel Boudier Crème de Cassis de Dijon IGP for the entire collection. The possibilities are endless.

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The Informed Drinker

MARCH 20, 2021

Inside Grand Cata’s Shaw wine shop. As their friendship developed they began talking seriously about what both had discovered their true passion to be: wine. Julio made the jump first, taking a job working for a wine wholesaler/importer, followed by Pedro who began working at a local wine retail shop.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Bacardi via Ebay “So maybe that’s where this wacky ‘let’s put tequila into rum’ idea came from,” says Coxen, who first turned me onto Ciclón via tasting it on her online spirits show “ My Tiny Bottles.” Rodríguez passed in 2016 and Barcardí Limited offered no comments for this story.) To be sure, it had plenty of fans early on. “I

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

so much of the world of wine is centered around red blends. If you make wine outside the region’s set of rules you cannot put said appellation on the label. Here in the States, and in most wine regions outside Europe, the rules are much more lenient. Monkey Jacket 2021 This wine is so cool.

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The Informed Drinker

APRIL 17, 2021

We were especially excited to try their 2015 Paxxito (pronounced pa-see-to) dessert wine, which recently won the 2021 Virginia Governor’s Cup. It’s uncommon for a dessert wine to win a top spot like this, but after tasting it we could certainly see why.

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Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

Heat things up with these five bottle recs from Joly. Sake that is clean and crisp is also ideal for hot sake—especially styles that are from Niigata Prefecture. These styles of sake are not as aromatic, and are suitable for warm or hot sake.”

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Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This one’s a blend of 7-, 13-, and 16-year-old bourbons that is finished in Tokaji wine casks, the Hungarian sweet wine that seems to be making a surprising run at the whiskey world of late. Compare to releases from 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , and 2022. 101 proof.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

One of the romantic notions that can connect drinkers to a given bottle of wine is the idea that said wine is the product of generations of labor, a plot of land, and a winemaking ethos passed down through the generations to the current standard bearer. Others get the wine bug a bit earlier. “I

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 13, 2024

Rebekah Peppler: I started to split time between New York and Paris in late 2016. So I’d open a really beautiful bottle, maybe a sparkling rosé like a pét-nat. And something like Le Grande Plage [Lillet, amaro, bitters, sparkling wine] is the spritz that I want to be drinking when it’s warm and beautiful out.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Legolas and the Elves sip on Miruvor (a fictional cordial) along with mead and various other wines, the massive tree-like Ents most prefer the revitalizing Ent-draught, and then, of course, there’s beer and ale. Intoxicating beverages abound throughout J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

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Dry Atlas

JULY 31, 2024

Like many, my journey began with a passion for home brewing and hunting down the rarest brews in local bars and bottle shops. In 2016, just months away from opening a new bar and production facility, I confided in my closest colleagues that I’d decided to stop drinking. Enter non-alcoholic beer, wine, and spirits.

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Dry Atlas

JULY 31, 2024

Like many, my journey began with a passion for home brewing and hunting down the rarest brews in local bars and bottle shops. In 2016, just months away from opening a new bar and production facility, I confided in my closest colleagues that I’d decided to stop drinking. Enter non-alcoholic beer, wine, and spirits.

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VinePair

JULY 1, 2024

Just as easy to make as they are to enjoy, Spritzes are typically made with a liqueur, Prosecco , and a splash of soda water, creating something that’s not quite wine but not quite a cocktail, either. Swapping out the cocktail’s traditional glassware for a large wine glass. And people can’t get enough. Their first move?

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

These were just part of a flurry of openings that kicked off in 2016 and continue today, including Cote , Oiji Mi , Kochi , Mari , and Anto. The spot’s drinks menu, which includes an extensive selection of Korean sool, forgoes wine in favor of cocktails, each listed with a brief description of the aspect of life in Seoul that inspired it.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

When I asked the owner of a local wine shop about Rueda , I got a quizzical look. I wasn’t completely surprised that he was unfamiliar with wines from Rueda, given that it’s a relatively small subregion of Castilla y León in northwest Spain a couple of hours from Madrid. The wines tend to have a good deal of minerality.

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VinePair

JUNE 4, 2024

percent ABV Funny Water , carving a new niche in non-carbonated alcoholic drinks that, unlike wine or most cocktails, aren’t too strong. By 2016, Americans drank more bottled water than soda, hydrating with Poland Spring and flavored waters like Vitaminwater, Propel, and Hint Water. In 2021, the duo introduced the 3.75

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Since then, the brewery has expanded significantly, moving into its current downtown residence in August 2016. And while Argentina may be better known for wine, the country has a craft beer scene that’s blossomed impressively over the past two decades. In 2010, there were roughly 70 breweries scattered across the country.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

Eduard Viader grabs a bottle from a riddling rack, pulls off the metal brace that secured the cork, and with his index finger covering the closure to keep it from flying off, uses his clawlike wrench to ease the cork out of the bottle. He spins the bottle to tamp down the fizz and turns it upright.

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VinePair

JUNE 5, 2024

The red wines of Portugal are a melange of relatively unfamiliar grapes, often joined together in blends that distinguish the country from so many other wine regions where single-varietal wines dominate. Some of the wines are still labeled as such.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Even though we love all categories of wine here at VinePair, there’s no arguing that the undisputed champ of the holiday season is Champagne. There’s really no better way to spread the holiday spirit than with a bottle of bubbly, but making the perfect selection can be a daunting task. Do you spring for a vintage bottling?

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VinePair

AUGUST 20, 2024

Called the Clante by the Etruscans, what’s now known as Chianti was Italy’s first modern fine-wine region, and the vineyards here continue to produce some of the most famous wines in the world. The resulting wine can achieve true Italian elegance: refined and balanced, with well-crafted rustic edges.

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