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5 to Try: Cava, and the Wines Formerly Known as Cava

Imbibe Magazine

Odds are, your familiarity with Cava, the sparkling wine of Spain’s Catalonia region, may simply be as a cheap bottle of bubbles. Producers of the wine are pushing the regulating body, D.O. Cava, for stricter rules for quality, aiming to improve the wine’s global image and subsequent value.

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5 to Try: Orange Wines

Imbibe Magazine

Despite its ancient roots and modern popularity, orange wine still lacks a legal definition and currently remains categorized under white wine. Sommelier Doreen Winkler leaned into the former, launching the first orange wine subscription service in 2019. I became obsessed with orange wine over a decade ago,” she says.

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Imbibe 75 Person to Watch: Averie Swanson

Imbibe Magazine

Averie Swanson is one of the most respected brewers of mixed-fermentation beer in the country, yet she’s never had a brick-and-mortar location to call her own. Fans have been able to find Swanson’s creations in Chicago and at various festivals and events, but Keeping Together beers demand a dedicated place.

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27 Seasonal Beer Releases Worth Traveling For [MAP]

VinePair

Wine tourism is a bonafide industry. But beer tourism? Even then, taking a vacation devoted to beer is a harder thing to justify. Nonetheless, there are stellar breweries around the country that bring beer nerds to their taprooms every year to score their most coveted releases. Curating such a list is no small feat.

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The Next Era of Spanish Wine Starts Now

Imbibe Magazine

When the team behind Oxalis , a Michelin-starred restaurant in Brooklyn, opened Clinton Hill wine bar Place des Fêtes in 2022, beverage director Piper Kristensen knew exactly what he didn’t want to do: re-create the same-old, same-old bistronomy-style French-heavy list. Spanish wine—even great Spanish wine—isn’t new to stateside customers.

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Why Younger Consumers Aren’t Drinking Wine

Cheers

Why does the wine category struggle with Millennials and Gen Z? The wine industry had been on an upward trajectory since 1997, averaging growth levels over 2% through 2018, according to data from The Beverage Information Group , the data partner of Cheers magazine. But the rate of growth has decelerated since 2004.

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On Non-Alc and the Decline of Craft Beer

Dry Atlas

By Mike Gurr, Vice President of Operations at Gruvi For 15 years, I was deeply immersed in the world of craft beer. My trajectory in the beer industry—marked first by unbridled enthusiasm, a period of stagnation, and then great uncertainty—in many ways mirrors the industry’s own evolution.