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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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

While every category of spirit and aperitif wine has grown and evolved in the past two decades, vermouth has shown a surprising stylistic shift. And contemporary producers are increasingly spreading their creative wings, and discovering the potential of this venerable aromatized wine.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

This isn’t just a cultural preference; vermouth’s core function is as an aperitif, with food a crucial part of the enjoyment equation. A bottle of dry vermouth is perfect with oysters or mussels. Vermouth is built on a balance of sweetness and bitterness,” he says. Dry vermouth and oysters is the Champagne of the poor,” Monti says. “A

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2024

We macerate the cold fruit on a base of hybrid rosé wine and water—the temperature and alcohol delay primary fermentation for a DIY cold-soak method. It’s less syrupy than most liqueurs, with a more drinkable, aperitif quality. After straining, the tank rests for another month before we bottle. Tank tasting with Kendra.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With the financial security, improved taste (and abandonment of heedless binging) of adulthood, pregaming was subsumed by its more glamorous adult cousin: the aperitif. I grew up with parents who relished this pre-dinner cocktail or glass of wine as a relaxed yet celebratory transition out of the work week.

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Chilled Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Liqueur , Red Wine , Vodka Banfi Rosa Regale Vampire’s Delight Ingredients 1 oz. Sparkling Wine , Whiskey Bloody Party Punch Ingredients 4 oz. Sparkling Wine , Whiskey Bloody Party Punch Ingredients 4 oz. Gin , Sparkling Wine Witching Hour Martini Ingredients 1 oz. Top with chilled sparkling wine. Top with 2 oz.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 13, 2024

A lot of the aperitif spirits that are made here are made in Provence, or in the south of France. But my interest in diving into it from the Apéritif perspective was to capture the whole of aperitif within France. So I’d open a really beautiful bottle, maybe a sparkling rosé like a pét-nat.

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VinePair

MARCH 7, 2024

If you drink wine on a regular basis, chances are you have a go-to glass or grape you gravitate to on menus or your local shop. Seeking expert advice, we asked sommeliers for the overlooked and underappreciated bottles, grapes, and wine styles they are currently coveting. Keep reading to see what the pros had to say.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 26, 2025

Just in time for the longer days, our March/April 2025 issue , features a taste test of alcohol-free aperitifs, a quickly growing category that allows for an aperitivo at any hour. Among the bottles featured is the new Wilderton Citrus Aperitivo. rebranded itself.

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VinePair

MAY 14, 2024

When that feeling hits, we know it’s time for VinePair’s annual ranking of the best rosé wines. While rosé used to be the unrivaled summer beverage, in 2024 it’s going up against orange wines, chillable reds, and the infallible spritz. Cerasuolo means “cherry” in Italian, in reference to the wine’s intense cherry-like color.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Napa Valley is perhaps the most famous and well-publicized wine region in the United States. Despite its relatively compact size, the region produces almost 50 million cases of wine every year, about a quarter of California’s total wine production. The most underrated Napa wines, according to sommeliers: Corison J.

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

Once there, the door was held for us as we were directed to a special room reminiscent of a European wine cellar. Presented to attendees at the dinner was a box and bottle of VSOP with the designer label by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Ilori. It is a light and bright Aperitif for cocktails such as a classic cocktail –Manhattan.

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VinePair

MAY 14, 2024

Sometimes the convenience of a one-stop grocery haul for dinner and a bottle of wine can be too hard to pass up. Thankfully, as our wine experts below can attest, there are plenty of underrated supermarket wines that won’t let you or your meal down. It’s great with anything spicy or as an aperitif.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 3, 2024

I had found several sealed bottles of antique absinthe and was familiar with its history in New Orleans.” Yet, by 2000, absinthe was nowhere to be found, and what was presented as absinthe in Europe was nothing like the beautiful liquid inside the intact antique bottles T.A. Back in the day, Absinthe was very popular.

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Chilled Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Vermouth is a fortified wine, distilled spirit added to increase the alcohol proof. Sherry is also a fortified wine produced in Spain. The difference from vermouth is that it is a blend of wine and distilled spirits and goes through more stages in its production. Fashionable cafes served it as an aperitif.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Your friendly neighborhood wine shop is the perfect resource for fleshing out your wine wish list, as well as making other people’s wine wishes come true. We asked nine sommeliers across the world to share the epic bottles on their own holiday wish lists. The wines on sommeliers’ holiday wish lists in 2023: Cruse Wine Co.

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Cheers

DECEMBER 28, 2023

To close out 2023, we asked the our national wine panel to taste and rate their favorite 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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Cocktails with Suderman

MARCH 7, 2025

These are the highly talented people, and the bottles, that you want to have around at all times. Cocchi Americano is a quinine-flavored, aromatized, fortified wine, with a bittersweet, herbal, lightly citrusy flavor profile. It works as an aperitif, a not-quite vermouth, a spiced sweetener, and a lightly bitter liqueur all in one. (But…It’s

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VinePair

APRIL 11, 2025

When the VinePair team isnt busy working at HQ, were in the field doing what we do best: scoping out the best cocktails, wine, and beer in the five boroughs. We felt a couple rounds of French sparkling wine, Chartreuse-forward cocktails, and glasses of sake were in order. April has been a month of intense uncertainty so far.

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Chilled Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

5oz - Lemon Juice Topped - Club Soda Garnish: Mint Sprig, (Elderflower and Pear Optional) Glassware: Wine Preparation Add all ingredients besides the club soda to a shaker tin without ice. Refrigerate covered, for at least two hours before serving over ice in a wine glass. 5oz - Elderflower Liqueur.5oz Add ice and shake for 8 seconds.

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Drinkhacker

JANUARY 29, 2024

Paul Hobbs has rapidly rose to prominence as one of the It Winemakers of California, perhaps because he appears to be so very versatile, producing winning bottlings across a range of styles and price points. Ample acidity keeps the wine perked up and alive, touched just so with raspberry and cherry as it develops in glass.

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Australian Bartender

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Whether guests are stopping in for a pre-dinner aperitif, catching up with friends over a seasonal meal, or making Bellamy their final stop for the night, the bar invites everyone to pull up a stool and relax in good company. Thats probably what Id say if we were having a chat over a glass of wine. But honestly, I believe its the team.

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Drinkhacker

JULY 3, 2024

With non-alcoholic spirits on the rise, the aperitif space has of late taken center stage as one of the most promising sectors for exploration. Reviewed herein: One in a full bottle and one in single-serve cans, courtesy of The Zero Proof. Thank a sizeable rhubarb note and a light medicinal quality for that effort.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They make great digestifs, aperitifs, and low-ABV shots, and they can take cocktails from so-so to phenomenal. Due to its explosion in popularity in recent years, and the monks maintaining a stagnant level of production, Chartreuse has become quite expensive as of late, with 750-milliliter bottles hovering around the $100 mark.

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The Whiskey Wash

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

However, there’s still some of the old stuff left around, and now and again, it appears in rarer bottlings. Teeling Whiskey Very Rare Cask 33-Year Pineau des Charentes Finish, priced at $3,699, is bottled at 49.7% Teeling Whiskey Very Rare Cask 33-Year Pineau des Charentes Finish, priced at $3,699, is bottled at 49.7%

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Drinkhacker

JUNE 27, 2024

Pliny praised its goodness, saying that the Pucino wine, much loved by Livia, the wife of Emperor Augustus, was known for its healing properties which, legend has it, were the reason behind the longevity of the Roman woman. All around, an elegant bottle that hits all the right notes at the right time. You will be quite entertained.

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VinePair

JANUARY 7, 2024

Overall, we determined that the bitter profile of aperitifs lends itself best to an NA format, as it’s seemingly easier to mimic without alcohol. Price: $40 / 4-pack 20 oz bottles De Soi Co-founded by Katy Perry in 2022, De Soi is a range of NA sparkling apéritifs available in four flavors. Agrestis Brooklyn-based St.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Like amaro , it was originally touted for its supposed medicinal benefits before it became a popular aperitif, often served as a standalone sipper with the occasional citrus twist. That’s because its ABV and conventional usages are more in line with a liqueur than what it actually is: a fortified and aromatized wine.

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Good Spirits News

JULY 12, 2024

Released as single cask expressions, the whisky is bottled at 47.8% The single malt was aged for 10 years in a combination of ex-bourbon and European oak casks followed by 8 years in French wine casks from the Charentes region. Released as single cask expressions, the whisky is bottled at 47.9% ABV without chill-filtration.

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VinePair

MARCH 21, 2024

Añejo tequila, another key component of Tequila Don Julio Alma Miel, is aged for at least 14 months before being finished in French Crémant de Limoux wine casks, adding another complexity to the smooth and spiced sipping tequila. Each 750-milliliter bottle retails for $99.99. Pour into rocks glass with large ice cube.

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Good Spirits News

APRIL 23, 2024

With its low ABV (typically under 30%), shochu makes an excellent neat aperitif. NIKAIDO Kitchom is aged for one year in steel tanks, before being bottled in handmade, hand painted glazed clay flasks. Also, the clay bottle makes for a very stylish conversation piece on your back bar. Long finish ending on a distinct barley note.

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Dry Atlas

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

These lil’ bottles are your spice rack – your salt and pepper! Not only can a few dashes change the taste and mouthfeel of your na wine, a few dashes also add layers and complexity to otherwise ordinary mocktails. Nowadays, I find bitters essential to building a bar cart.

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Drinkhacker

JANUARY 4, 2024

Plenty of imbibers were happy to sip on wine or beer in lieu of the more adventuresome cocktails on tap. 6 English whisky, evaporated chocolate, matcha, and Sauternes wine. Plenty of folks popped in and out of the bar for a quick pre- or post-dinner tipple — and there’s no standing on ceremony here. 6, a blend of Lakes No.

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VinePair

MAY 22, 2024

As the world’s first additive-free, single-estate tequila brand that designates the location where the agave was grown, Tequila Ocho shines a light on terroir, a concept traditionally applied to wine. One of Tequila Ocho’s mantras says it all: “We look at terroir as the essence of time and place beyond the glass.” Tequila Ocho 40% Alc./Vol.,

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Dry Atlas

MAY 15, 2024

By Isabel van Zuilen, Founder of Sobertopia Since I love bubbles, here’s an overview of over 40 non-alcoholic sparkling wines I’ve tried and tested myself, including my reviews, my bubbly rating, and where you can get them! Why only bubbles… My favorite drink while still drinking alcohol was sparkling wine, preferably pink Champagne.

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Drink Me

DECEMBER 28, 2023

I’m fascinated with this wine not only because Megan Hughes has nicely crafted a “chardonnay in the raw” but also because it gives us a glimpse into what sparkling wines were like centuries ago. Then, grapes were just pressed, left to ferment, and bottled. The result is a wonderfully bubbly wine…under a crown cap.

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VinePair

JULY 1, 2024

Just as easy to make as they are to enjoy, Spritzes are typically made with a liqueur, Prosecco , and a splash of soda water, creating something that’s not quite wine but not quite a cocktail, either. A mix of their orange aperitif, Prosecco , and a splash of soda water thereby became known as the Aperol Spritz. Their first move?

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