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Tahiirah Habibi Is Building a Better Wine World on Her Own Terms

Imbibe Magazine

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.

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Denisse Soto’s Latin American Cocktail Program at Chicago’s Cariño

Chilled Magazine

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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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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Why Is the U.S. Wine Industry Ignoring Central America and the Caribbean?

VinePair

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.

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What is Non-Alcoholic Wine?

Dry Atlas

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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Making Non-Alcoholic Wine Will Never Be Easy. Can Momentum Carry It Forward?

VinePair

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.

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The Next Era of Spanish Wine Starts Now

Imbibe Magazine

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.

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