Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

Curated by certified sommelier Hailey Pruitt, the collection pays special homage to wines from Mexico.” a new project from sommelier-turned-vigneron Rajat Parr. The restaurant’s bar and accompanying wine cellar offer equally impressive programs. It’s the language that chef and Ladino partner Berty Richter grew up speaking at home.

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Chilled Magazine

JULY 29, 2024

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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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Certified Bourbon Steward, BarSmarts, CRT Certified in Tequila, Level 3 WSET sommelier. Certified Sommelier, Certified Sherry Wine Specialist, Cicerone Beer Server, Tequila T-Award CRT, Certified Mezcal specialist, Canadian Whiskey Certificate, BarSmarts Advanced. Basically, a witch doctor. Expertise: Rhum/Rum.

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VinePair

JULY 9, 2024

No one is more attuned to the changes than Aubrey Bailey and Taylor Domin, the owners of Cadet Wine and Beer. Instead, wine (and beer) are the foundations on which it was built. When we first started, it was like somms were kings, and everyone walking around Napa was a Master Sommelier candidate,” says Bailey. “We

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VinePair

AUGUST 27, 2024

Although the beer and spirits industries have long come to terms with this reality, wine is still attached to this unsubstantiated belief that a glass or two a day is good for your health. Everybody knows that sugar, fast food, and red meat aren’t good for you, yet we still consume them. The same goes for alcohol. Tune in for more.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

Burgundy “is the wine connoisseur’s region,” says Nikita Malhotra, head sommelier of Burgundy wine event, La Paulée. Since the wines are in a higher price bracket, learning to appreciate the region not only takes an investment of money but time and energy.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 1, 2024

Sommeliers and beverage directors are finding inspiration in Spain’s relatively recent wine renaissance, from the revival of indigenous varietals to boundary-pushing new styles. . Bar Vinazo, Brooklyn, New York The newest venture from sommelier, author, and restaurateur Joe Campanale, Bar Vinazo celebrates his love for Spanish wines.

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Imbibe Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sommelier Doreen Winkler leaned into the former, launching the first orange wine subscription service in 2019. Despite its ancient roots and modern popularity, orange wine still lacks a legal definition and currently remains categorized under white wine.

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Bar Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

Key highlights include the revitalised masterclass schedule, the Sommelier Wine Awards (SWA) results ceremony, The Great Imbibe Live Shake Off competition and the new much-anticipated Campo de Agave theatre, an oasis of agave plant-based spirits masterclasses hosted by Club Cantina.

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Crafted with precision and designed for effortless uncorking, this 2-in-1 wine & beer opener makes opening bottles a breeze. The parrot head on it also makes it a beer bottle opener (or soda, etc.). Its extra strong construction means it will last you years to come, even after opening thousands of bottles of wine & beer.

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Good Spirits News

JULY 15, 2024

All The Bitter makes classically inspired cocktail bitters using organic, functional ingredients free of alcohol, full of flavor, and designed by Michelin-trained sommeliers. Equally at home in full strength, low- and no-alcohol cocktails, their bitters also make a great addition to sparkling water, tonic, ginger ale, tea, and beer.

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Dry Atlas

AUGUST 28, 2024

They also reveal how they’re winning over both skeptics and sommeliers, while expanding the accessibility of wine for those who wish to enjoy the experience without the effects of alcohol. We observed what had happened on the beer front where, four or five years ago, high quality non-alcoholic beers started to emerge.

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Bar Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The 7th annual London Spirits , Wine , and Beer Competitions will take place in 2024, and brands looking to get international credibility and product feedback from leading trade buyers, are encouraged to submit their products now. This is a great opportunity for producers and brand owners around the world to grow in 2024.

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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.

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Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

As an international kikisake-shi (sake sommelier) and the first to receive the title of Miss Sake USA in 2016, Jessica Joly, marketing director at Sake Discoveries , appreciates how premium sake can be served at an array of temperatures: “On the rocks, cold, room temperature, warm, lukewarm, hot, extremely hot—it is unlike any other alcoholic beverage,” (..)

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VinePair

JANUARY 3, 2024

Further downtown, at the Chinese-American restaurant Silver Apricot , managing partner and sommelier Emmeline Zhao also takes a holistic approach to the food and beverage selections. Zhao also encounters doubters at Silver Apricot, and puts the sommelier tradition of blind tasting to good use in such instances, pouring examples from the U.S.

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VinePair

MAY 31, 2024

Beer and wine flow as cheerful conversation echoes well into the night, and old-timers and youngsters alike eat, drink, and dance the evening away to wildly suggestive “ Pimba ” tunes from back in the day. All that richness needs a counterpoint, and of course there’s beer aplenty. So it’s not necessarily about the pairing.

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VinePair

MARCH 21, 2024

As a golden generation of industry professionals ages, that boilermaker regimen (shot and a beer, or two… or three) just isn’t sustainable. Back in the day, it was two shots and a beer as my first post-shift drink,” he says. Now I’d rather have a glass of wine or a strong beer. I just want to feel good in the morning!”

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Cheers

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The CIA’s beers are sold in all of its restaurants and distributed by CBG from Westchester County up to Lake Placid, NY. In addition to its cocktail and wine programs, the Institute has a brewery on campus that was named Brewery of the Year for New York State in 2019, and is the lab for the Art & Science of Brewing class.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Karis Visth is the restaurant manager and head sommelier at KOKS. Are there beers or spirits from Greenland? We chose to brew our own beer for the KOKS Ilimanaq project in collaboration with the Faroese brewery OY. The beer is crafted with two typically Greenlandic products — blueberries and juniper.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Trappist Beer Travels, Second Edition: Inside the Breweries of the Monasteries Caroline Wallace, Sarah Wood, and Jessica Deahl, Schiffer Publishing, March 2023. Anyone who falls firmly in the center of the history-buff-beer-geek Venn diagram will appreciate this deep dive into traditional Trappist beer-making. November 2023.

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VinePair

JUNE 17, 2024

For some, what starts as a romp with backyard kegs of cheap light beer, nightclub tequila shots, or hangover lord Boone’s Farm , eventually leads down the yellow brick road to a magical, moderated land of Rioja , Riesling , and Rhône. Wine pricing on lists across the U.S. Restaurant pricing increases aren’t tenable,” he says.

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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. Then our beers were sent this year and we have got a lot of attention as we received one gold and 3 silvers.

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Dry Atlas

JUNE 5, 2024

NA beers are made in many different ways—dealcoholizing, arrested fermentation, Proxies-like blending—but we call them all NA beer. We make Proxies the way we do because we think it’s the best way to make a non-alcoholic wine-like beverage. So why not the same in wine? What matters to consumers?

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VinePair

JULY 18, 2024

Fine wine also can and increasingly is being profitably sold in the land of where rum and beer reign supreme. On Grand Cayman, sommelier Christian Esser has owned and directed wine education center Wineschool3 for 16 years and, tellingly, now co-owns the new wine bar Le Petit Bar Cayman.

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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 spirits realm is currently trying and, here and there, pulling off wins.

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Dry Atlas

MARCH 26, 2024

Throughout her three-decade tenure in hospitality, Chrissie has lent her expertise as a judge in various competitions, most notably as the Head of Judging for the Sommelier Wine Awards. The categories of products submitted consisted of: beer, cider, mead, sake, ready-to-drinks, wine, spirits, and tea-based drinks.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s why we’re once again rounding up the best drinks gifts of the year, and we’ve got ideas covered for anyone who enjoys cocktails, wine, beer, coffee, or tea. Price: $11 Check It Out Literie Beers at the Ballpark Candle Baseball and beer is a pairing as ubiquitous as chestnuts and an open fire. s leading IPA brewers.

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VinePair

JULY 10, 2024

Making beer has long been the proving ground for innovative technologies, from the earliest mercury thermometer and first saccharometer through the introduction of the cylindroconical fermenter and on to the modern hop torpedo. If you put 10 beers in front of them and one or two are molecular, they will not be able to pinpoint them.”

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Bar Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Ambassadors selected are different personalities ranging from Masters of Wine, Master Sommeliers, Head Bartenders, Mixologisits, Instagramers, YouTubers and Writers. To enter the London Wine Competition click here, for London Spirits Competition click here, and for the London Beer Competition click here.

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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 If you’re a fan of Spanish food and wine, see our list of which bars and restaurants should be on your radar.)

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The Bartender Company

MARCH 5, 2023

Although referred to as “rice wine”, sake brewed in Japan is processed similarly to beer. Seasoned sake sommeliers describe the flavor profile of cold sake as that of very dry white wine. Let’s explore the origins of sake, serving methods, and the differences between hot sake and cold sake… What is Sake?

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While restaurants historically featured limited selections of beer or soju, the beverage directors at today’s forward-thinking establishments have pushed the boundaries of what Korean drinks programs can look like, with many curating extensive, award-winning wine lists and pairing menus. due to its fermented flavors and preparations.

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PubClub

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The cocktail menu, curated by award-winning mixologist Jim Meehan, features five specialty whiskey cocktails, including Drink a Peach with peach flavored whiskey and bitters and Mayme, Tailored, highlighting an American whiskey with ginger beer. Guests can also choose from over 20 classic and new American whiskeys.

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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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VinePair

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Though not every chef, sommelier, brewer, and winemaker who breaks bread at Charleston Wine + Food is a South Carolina native, the Lowcountry is dutifully represented, and the others appreciate the recognition the state has carved out for itself in the food and drink realm. Tickets are now on sale for the 2024 Charleston Wine + Food Festival.

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VinePair

JULY 3, 2024

Though beer, hard seltzer, and cocktails traditionally rule the canned drinks space, there’s a rising number of exceptional wines hitting shelves in this format. Nomadica Orange VinePair’s 2023 Next Wave Award rising drinks brand of the year Nomadica makes sommelier-approved wines more approachable with its beautifully designed cans.

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