Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 1, 2024

You may have noticed the increasing prevalence of wines from regions like Galicia or Catalunya on wine lists, or even the spate of locales leaning fully Spanish. In our March/April issue , Jennifer Fiedler explores the growing wave of Spanish wine bars and restaurants. The following are Spanish wine bars on our radar.

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Drinkhacker

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The hits keep coming from Merry Edwards , including this collection of chardonnay and pinot noir wines that are perfect for fall sips. These are all from the 2022 vintage, with several selections from Anderson Valley. 2022 Merry Edwards Chardonnay Anderson Valley – A little thin, a little green. You know the drill.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

An advanced sommelier and alum of spots like New York City’s Eleven Madison Park, de Pano opened her wine shop in late 2022 and highlights terroir-driven wines, with a particular affinity for low alcohol and high acid. Who wants to crush a 16 percent bottle of wine when the sun’s blazing?” And clocking in at 10.5

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Drinkhacker

APRIL 11, 2024

Although it lacks prominence on its website nor is there any mention on the bottle itself, Danaus is an extension of the ever-expanding portfolio of Argentina’s Domaine Bousquet , a brand with which regular readers of the site are no doubt familiar.

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Drinkhacker

MAY 2, 2024

A lively dessert wine made from orange muscat grapes, this wine hits all of 8.5% alcohol in the bottle, making for a decidedly crushable after-dinner experience. Light green herbal notes and a bit of grapefruit peel add a refreshing pop to the finish that again subverts expectations from a dessert wine.

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Cheers

OCTOBER 1, 2024

For our latest round of wine reviews, we asked our national wine panel to taste and rate American Wines. bottle unless otherwise noted. If you’d like to submit wines for review, please do so through our Wine Stars app. Four Stars (91-86): A very good wine and an excellent value. A truly sexy wine.

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Drinkhacker

MARCH 7, 2024

Herdade Do Esporao wines bring only positive words to the Portuguese wine conversation: they are sturdy ambassadors staying within the realm of affordability and are consistent in quality. A- / $23 2022 Herdade Do Esporao Reserva White – Sunny and aromatic pouring out of the bottle and into the glass.

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Cheers

AUGUST 15, 2024

The post Beringer Vineyards 2022 Private Reserve Chardonnay appeared first on Cheers. Aromas include honeysuckle and citrus blossom, the winery reports, before a creamy palate with balanced oak and hints of vanilla and ginger spice. The suggested retail price is $50 per 750-ml.

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Drinkhacker

JUNE 15, 2024

B+ 2022 William Hill Estate Chardonnay North Coast – An onslaught of yellow peach and lemon runs throughout, accompanied by buttered toast and red apple towards the finish. It’s a bottle one would expect during drinks service in business class or one that could work well as a base for a nice white sangria.

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Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s a USDA-certified organic, vegan, gluten-free, and kosher wine enduring an incredibly disciplined and rigorous process that requires an immense amount of attention to detail and labor. Let’s find out how this year stacks up to previous vintages. This year’s vintage is no exception.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Northern Rhône Valley has some of the most breathtaking vineyards in the world — and some of the most stunning wines. The Northern Rhône has a more continental climate, not as warm as that of the south, and the wines, especially the reds, can be a bit lighter (though not “light”), lower in alcohol, and offer more acidity.

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Drinkhacker

AUGUST 1, 2024

McPrice Myers recently launched a new label of (very) affordable wines called Hard Working Wines — all made not with generic Central Valley fruit but rather (for the most part) more prized Paso Robles grapes. And yet prices on all of these wines are kept to just $20 a bottle. Let’s dig in.

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VinePair

JUNE 12, 2024

Summer is fast approaching, which means coolers around the country will soon be filled with rosés and crisp white wines to fend off the season’s inevitable heat. But this year, some wine-lovers will swap out the typical bottles of Sauvignon Blanc and Chablis for… red wine? So what makes a red wine chillable?

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Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Situated slightly northeast of Rome, Italy’s Abruzzo region has many a delight to offer wine lovers and those looking for an adventure slightly off the tourist-beaten paths. This bottle holds promise with one to two years if stored away from sight, but it’s also ready to deliver presently if in a pinch. B / $19 cantinazaccagnini.it

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Drinkhacker

JANUARY 13, 2024

Butaud Blanc de Noir – A white wine (with just the barest shade of pink to it) made from 100% mourvedre (red) grapes, 6 barrels made from grapes grown in Desert Willow Vineyards in Seminole, Texas. Butaud 2022 Blanc de Noir and 2021 Cease & Desist appeared first on Drinkhacker: The Insider's Guide to Good Drinking.

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Drinkhacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Sicily’s Duca di Salaparuta can be found in Sicily, where it has the distinction of being the first winery to bottle 100% Nero d’Avola, way back in 1984. This year the winery celebrates its 200th anniversary, and it’s still at it today, turning out a range of wines both white and red from this storied island.

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 11, 2024

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. One huge benefit: the price.

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Drinkhacker

JULY 21, 2024

2022 Beringer Vineyards Chardonnay Private Reserve – Vibrant and elegant, this Oakville Chardonnay leads with aromas of orange blossom and gardenia and pivots to a palate featuring layers of mango, light lime, and pineapple. All before a touch of oak and minerality make appearances on the balanced, lingering finish.

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VinePair

JUNE 16, 2024

Bottled water is nothing new. While it’s hard to nail down exactly when the very first water bottle was invented, packaging water for transportation dates all the way back to ancient times. It didn’t take long for the environmental impact of these plastic bottles to become obvious.

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VinePair

JULY 2, 2024

Well, we’re here to make the case for celebrating America’s diverse and talented wine industry by popping bottles from the U.S. Unlike wine from many regions in Europe, American wine isn’t limited by strict regional denominations or centuries of tradition. This list shows that American wine has range. this holiday.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It says something when a well-known TV series about Italian food, in an episode about Puglia, ignores the wines of the region in the heel of the boot of southern Italy. But the wines? I guess the show’s host (a well-known actor) and producers must have figured that Puglia is still a backwater region when it comes to wine.

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Cheers

JUNE 24, 2024

For our latest round of wine reviews, we asked our national wine panel to taste and rate wines priced at under $30. bottle (unless otherwise noted). If you’d like to submit wines for review, please do so through our Wine Stars app. Four Stars (91-86): A very good wine and an excellent value.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2024

As discussed on a recent episode of the “ VinePair Podcast ,” white wine is on the rise (in no small part due to Taylor Swift’s love of the beverage). And it appears as if large companies have caught on, with several conglomerates b uying up white wine brands in anticipation of this trend continuing in 2024.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The Napa Valley is often regarded as the wine capital of the United States, so it’s no surprise that bottles from the region are typically accompanied by hefty price tags. And as the Northern Californian region continues to grow in popularity both stateside and abroad, the going rate for its wines is swelling right along with it.

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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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Drinkhacker

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We’ve been writing about the wines of Willamette-based Stoller for years, and today we’re diving into some whites and pinks from the operation — three from Stoller Family Estate, and one from its alternate (definitely not “second”) label, Chehalem. Versatile and all-around delightful.

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Drinkhacker

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Italy is a world of wine with twenty different official wine regions, each of which deserves serious attention. Naturally some get more than others, and today we are trying four wines from three regions in the south that are often overlooked by wine drinkers in the U.S.: This wine surprised me. Very enjoyable.

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VinePair

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s a new year and we’re eager to dive into the world of red wine — trying new bottles and revisiting some old favorites from the last year of tastings. Here at VinePair we try mountains of red wine every year and encounter so many different styles from juicy and chillable Gamay to tannic and earthy Bordeaux blends.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 9, 2024

If you’re looking for great wine values, there may be no better place on Earth than the Rhône Valley. It offers an almost endless array of notable wines — red, white, and rosé — in the under-$25 range. For less than $20, you can get a very very good bottle of wine,” says Nicolas Benivay, who manages sales at Domaine Pélaquié in Laudun.

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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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VinePair

MAY 22, 2024

While Portugal is most famous for its Port , the fortified wine only begins to tell the story of Portuguese wine, with new interest in the country’s countless non-fortified offerings, both red and white. Still, beyond Port, wines from Portugal remain a footnote on most restaurant wine lists.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Gifting red wine can be tough. There are so many different expressions on the market that it’s easy to default to an overpriced (and sometimes underwhelming) big-name bottle. That’s why we’ve broken some of our favorite reds down into several categories for every gifting scenario to help you navigate the wine shop this holiday season.

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Drinkhacker

MAY 19, 2024

The wine to have with Asian cuisine or a spice-laden filet of fish. A / $20 2021 Sonoma-Cutrer Pinot Noir Russian River Valley – Previous expressions of this wine have been on the punchy, blown-out side, but this 2021 release settles into a more vibrant groove quickly and efficiently. Versatile solo or with a range of foods.

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Drinkhacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

The region is best known for Zinfandel, but the wine makers at Avivo note that it has a climate similar to what we find in the Mediterranean and choose to cultivate grapes that are typically grown in Italy. I recommend giving the wine some air before trying it or maybe even using a decanter. B+ / $24 2022 Avivo White – 100% Vermentino.

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Bar Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2024

Consumer demand for WTF’s unique canned fruit wines proven. Hampshire based Wine That’s Fruit (WTF) today announces its expansion plans following strong initial sales growth from 2022 to 2023, with a further 200% sales growth projected for 2024. Awards confirm quality and consistency.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s generally accepted that whisky distilling began in Scotland by way of monks who arrived on the isle, didn’t have wine grapes, and started using grain mash to make spirits. Here, we’ve put together a timeline of some of the most iconic bottles throughout modern(ish) Scotch history. Bottle: Bowmore No.

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