2021 Beer Sommelier 
Imbibe Magazine
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
She’s on the board of the James Beard Awards, was the first Black woman on the cover of Wine Enthusiast , co-founded The Roots Fund to provide financial support and resources to BIPOC in the wine industry, and hosted the inaugural Golden Vine Awards aka “the Oscars of wine” in 2021. But that changed in 2011.
Chilled Magazine
JULY 29, 2024
In June 2021, she founded Denise Soto With Flair LLC and launched La Chingona Miks, a line of drink mixers. 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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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.
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 La Vara’s current list includes gems like Viña Zorzal Nat Cool Graciano Navarra 2021 and Bodegas Alamar Capitán Xurelo Mencia Galicia 2019.
VinePair
JULY 18, 2024
Fine wine also can and increasingly is being profitably sold in the land of where rum and beer reign supreme. From 2017 to 2021, overall wine exports increased by a whopping 67.2 Over the past decade, many countries have evolved from a predominant rum and beer culture to embracing fine wines,” he says.
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 Quest Catherine Diao and Dorothy Munholland started Studio Null in 2021.
Dry Atlas
JUNE 5, 2024
This simple phrase is our most-used slogan at Proxies, the brand I co-founded in 2021. NA beers are made in many different ways—dealcoholizing, arrested fermentation, Proxies-like blending—but we call them all NA beer. By Charlie Friedmann, Co-Founder and President of Proxies “Not wine. It depends on who you ask.
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