Drinkhacker

MARCH 22, 2024

By lucky coincidence, this happened to dovetail nicely into a simultaneously scheduled webinar with Master Sommelier, wine educator, and all-around amicable fellow Peter Granoff, who presented an overview of wines of Uruguay, as well as the pleasant qualities and attributes of the nation.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Kristin Courville, sommelier, The Bazaar By José Andrés in New York Kristin Courville WINE: Dominio del Challao Angelita 2020 from Rioja, Spain ($24 a glass) WHY: I love this wine because it shows the true elegance that Spanish wines are capable of. Madeline Maldonado, lead sommelier, Mercado Little Spain in New York.

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Good Spirits News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We dined in the heated back patio with Michael Lischak, the director of food and beverage at the Rose Tavern, Wiemer’s resident sommelier, Thera Clark, and co-owner and head winemaker, Fred Merwarth in addition to a few other staff members. The paired wine was the same used to poach the pears, a 2020 Riesling Noble Select.

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VinePair

MARCH 8, 2024

Instead of leaning lighter, sommeliers are embracing more textured and full-bodied whites — particularly those from the Iberian peninsula. As more sommeliers continue to share their appreciation for these wines with interested drinkers, this category is slated to take off among wine lovers as well. is another great example.

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VinePair

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many wine drinkers avoid the grape due to its reputation as “sweet,” while sommeliers and wine professionals sing its praises as a complex, age-worthy, high-acid wine. Ever come across a movie that has a 32 percent audience score but 90 percent critics score? That’s kind of like Riesling.

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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. The London Spirits Competition is a competition we are especially fond of, because it was at this competition in 2020 that we won our first gold medal.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In 2017, she founded the Hue Society to champion inclusivity in the wine industry and was named an Imbibe 75 Person to Watch in 2020. Despite all her accomplishments in the wine world, Habibi doesn’t have one thing that wine professionals covet: the Master Sommelier pin. They could have got somebody in a suit.”

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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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Today's Bartender

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

brewers, bartenders, distillers, authors, sommeliers, etc). Enter, Good Drinks, a newsletter written by Julia Bainbridge, author of a book called Good Drinks: Alcohol-Free Recipes for When You’re Not Drinking for Whatever Reason, which was named one of the best cocktail books of 2020 by the Los Angeles Times , Wired , and Esquire.

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Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2025

A certified WSET Level 3 sake educator, Sullivan is also the founding president of the American Sake Association , and in 2020 launched his Sake Revolution podcast. 35, tippsysake.com Den, Yamada Nishiki, Red Label Junmai Ginjo Yoshihiro Sako was a longtime bartender and sake sommelier.

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Spiritz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Familia Torres’ Mas de la Rosa 2020 and Forcada 2021 have been recognised for their exceptional quality, earning a place in The World’s Best Sommeliers’ Selection 2025 (WBSS). This exclusive list highlights outstanding wines chosen by some of the world’s most influential sommeliers.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Tim Riley first began reviewing energy drinks in 2021, when his wife joked that his habit of tasting sugary caffeine beverages with his skillset as a sommelier could make for a good TikTok bit. billion in 2020 to nearly $62.9 I always say, ‘If you say you don’t like energy drinks, I bet you I can find something you do like.’”

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 3, 2025

In 2020, she co-founded The Roots Fund, a nonprofit devoted to empowering underrepresented communities in wine, with fellow industry leaders Tahiirah Habibi and Carlton McCoy, Jr. Does that mean theyre bad at being a sommelier? When you created The Roots Fund in 2020, it was during a time when a lot of U.S.

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VinePair

MARCH 5, 2025

While Japanese wine was virtually nonexistent in America pre-2020, a surge of importers started bringing in bottles after the pandemic, and the pace of new Japanese wines hitting the U.S. market has only accelerated since. Lin recalls a guest who came into Tsukimi looking for Japanese wine saying he had first tried it at Chambers.)

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Cheers

JANUARY 2, 2025

Cultivating Spirits, for example, offers a private dinner party for consumers, featuring a custom-crafted three-course meal paired with craft cannabis by a cannabis sommelier. Making their debut in January of 2020, visitors can drink cannabis-infused coffees, teas and lemonades while trying the cafes THC-infused baked goods.

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VinePair

APRIL 9, 2025

Founded by homebrewer Simeon Parvanov, the first batch of Sofia Electric beers rolled out in the summer of 2020 and the brewery has been growing steadily ever since. When hunger strikes, try to secure a reservation at The Butchers Son, the Michelin-star restaurant led by chef Bert-Jan Michielsen and sommelier Luc Dickens.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

So we asked 20 professionals writers, photographers, beer sommeliers, beer competition judges, and others for their picks on the breweries people need to watch in 2025. Sayre Piotrkowski, beer sommelier, Advanced Cicerone, and writer , Oakland, Calif. Their reasons are various. Pivotal Brewing Company Bristol, R.I.

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