Dry Atlas

MARCH 13, 2024

PARTNER CONTENT From sommeliers at The French Laundry to pioneers in the alcohol-free bitters market, Ian and Carly Blessing’s journey with All The Bitter is a tale of innovation born from personal necessity. Ian, you’re in bitters, a niche space within alcohol alternatives and even traditional cocktails.

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Cheers

APRIL 23, 2024

The experts at Nossa Imports , sommelier husband-and-wife duo Dale and Stephen Ott, share some suggestions for Mexican wine and taco pairings. This aperitif is lightly bitter and sings in a spritz. While Margaritas and cerveza are the common drink pairings for tacos, Mexican wines make a great match as well.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

You can make a delicious variation of an Old Fashioned using rum, spices, and Jamaican bitters.” ” —Donya El Shoubasi, sommelier, Asador Bastian , Chicago “Maybe due to its absolutely zero-frills nature, the Rusty Nail hasn’t evolved from ironic to post-ironic anomaly like the Espresso Martini. .

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Cheers

APRIL 10, 2024

Also, working in an Italian restaurant, combining the bitterness of most Italian liqueurs with this versatile spirit ends up creating the perfect balance that you would never expect. I feel like there are so many layers to this agave spirit, and the smokiness aspect adds an extra challenge for me in blending other flavors.

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Australian Bartender

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Presidential Visit is an old fashioned with Michter’s Bourbon, Lagavulin Single Malt, root beer bitters, tonka bean, and orange liqueur, tipping the hat to President Lyndon Johnson’s visit to Sydney in 1966. Highlights include the tilda Martini, made with Archie Rose gin, dry vermouth, Ferrand orange curacao, and dry eucalyptus bitters.

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Dry Atlas

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Think garnishes, citrus, muddlers, non-alc spirits, bitters, and juice for margaritas, French 75, or Bloody Marys. You can even find wine proxies loved by sommeliers and Michelin-starred chefs! Speaking of bars, why not set up a DIY non-alcoholic cocktail bar? And if you want to show up with a bottle, the non-alc options have exploded.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Strong, Sweet and Bitter: Your Guide to All Things Cocktails, Bartending and Booze from Behind the Bar Cara Devine, Hardie Grant, May 2023. Industry veteran Cara Devine proves this in her new book, where she educates readers on the Flavor Triangle — strong, sweet, and bitter — and how to use it to strike the perfect balance in their drinks.

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VinePair

JULY 10, 2024

To “brew” a beer, users can simply push a button and get a standard recipe, or use sliders to adjust characteristics like bitterness and amount of alcohol. A beer sommelier with a certificate from the Doemens Academy in Munich, Roland Graber is a co-owner of Riot Act Brewing and the craft beer bar On Tap in Bern, Switzerland.

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Dry Atlas

OCTOBER 16, 2024

All The Bitter All The Bitter was one of the first NA products I tried. If I’m making drinks at home while entertaining, their Orange Bitters is almost always a key ingredient. All The Bitter was founded by two former sommeliers, which is why the flavor profiles of their bitters will completely blow you away.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Pisco Sours have all the components of a well-balanced cocktail: slightly tart and sweet, but also smooth and elegant from the egg whites and herbaceous from the bitters. Colleen Kelly, director of food & beverage, mixologist, and sommelier, Bernardus Lodge & Spa , Carmel Valley, Calif. “In

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VinePair

MAY 31, 2024

And full disclosure, this is certainly not a haute pairing devised by posh sommeliers in decades past, but rather a marriage of coincidental convenience. “As However, if you’re lucky, you’ll witness a gullible fellow newbie choking down the bitter innards with a desperate slug of wine. So it’s not necessarily about the pairing.

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VinePair

JANUARY 19, 2024

With Studio Null, we have a focus on transparency, so we list the grape varietal and source vineyard for each release on the bottle, but in blind tastings, sommeliers and wine critics have been able to identify the varietals and even provenance of our NA wines, and we’d like to continue delivering on that,” Diao says.

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VinePair

MARCH 17, 2024

It’s become known for its state grape: the all-American Muscadine , a prolific grape indigenous to the American Southeast with a propensity for late-summer aromas and flavors beneath bitter skin. When it’s dry, it tends to be bitter,” says Craig Boyd, the winemaker for Georgia’s oldest and largest winery, Habersham Winery.

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Dry Atlas

JULY 24, 2024

This artisanal, vinegar-based botanical beverage is the brainchild of two sober entrepreneurs: Nick, a fermentation enthusiast with sommelier skills, and Tawny, a queer woman in recovery who has been reporting on the sober and sober curious space since 2015. The founders’ backgrounds lend credibility and authenticity to the product.

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Spiritz

JULY 11, 2024

Be it the way he has married bitter to mango sambhar gelato or moringa chokha with sattu kachori inspires awe. Under the expert guidance of Prateek, the in-house sommelier, diners are taken on a journey through the vineyards of the world; exploring new varietals and rediscovering old favourites with each course.

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Good Spirits News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We dined in the heated back patio with Michael Lischak, the director of food and beverage at the Rose Tavern, Wiemer’s resident sommelier, Thera Clark, and co-owner and head winemaker, Fred Merwarth in addition to a few other staff members. And the cantaloupe beautifully used all five taste elements: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami.

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Australian Bartender

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Head Sommelier Sophie Gitterle delves into the rich tapestry of South American wines, offering an eclectic selection from speciality importers alongside Australian and Spanish varietals. For this one, Fernet is blended with Cynar, another amaro, along with a secret Buenos Aires bitters blend.

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VinePair

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many wine drinkers avoid the grape due to its reputation as “sweet,” while sommeliers and wine professionals sing its praises as a complex, age-worthy, high-acid wine. Ever come across a movie that has a 32 percent audience score but 90 percent critics score? That’s kind of like Riesling.

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Tales of the Cocktail

JULY 25, 2024

These awards recognize the top-rated spirit entered in each category, such as Gin: Best New American Gin, Tequila: Best Tequila Reposado, and Liqueur: Best Herbal Liqueur.

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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. Brands are encouraged to enter before the 2025 super early submission deadline of August 31, 2024.

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PubClub

JULY 16, 2024

s cherry blossoms, and Ambrosia Spritz, featuring bitters and liqueurs from local producer Don Ciccio & Figli. Guests can also order from a selection of wines chosen by sommelier and Centurion Lounge Wine Director Anthony Giglio, including wines from local vineyards in Virginia. A Nod to D.C.’s

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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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Tales of the Cocktail

MAY 13, 2024

Ben’s Friends: Ben’s Friends is a community of chefs, bartenders, line cooks, servers, sommeliers, hosts and hostesses, GMs, and owners who have found or are seeking sobriety. will lead a series of tours, including: Absinthe Tour Bourbon St. &

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Joo Lee Beverage Director, Anto Credit: Anto After years working as a sommelier at restaurants like Eleven Madison Park and San Francisco’s Saison , Joo Lee took the lead as beverage director at Anto, a Midtown East restaurant that opened in March 2023. It starts with sweet, salt, and bitter at the same time.

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Australian Bartender

APRIL 17, 2024

The addition of Dry Vermouth gives it some nice body, and adding Orange Bitters or Peychauds gives it a bit more depth. It’s ok if you dial back everything else in the drink, but there nothing to write home about…unless you’re a sommelier. They go down easily because the cocktail is sweetened with Grenadine.

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VinePair

APRIL 16, 2024

The deceptive sweetness of many liqueurs makes them harder to balance, like the bitter-tasting but sugar-loaded Campari. At first only Luxardo was available,” says Max Seaman, sommelier at Republique in Los Angeles and former longtime manager of iconic craft cocktail bar The Varnish. Liqueurs do have one advantage: alcohol.

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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 resulting “Orchard List” marked a pioneering move toward non-alcoholic offerings within the restaurant group.

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Imbibe Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

25 $50 and Under “Bitter is Better” T-Shirt With a cheeky illustration of the legendary Count Negroni, this T-shirt leaves no doubt about where your loyalties lie. $28 Hand illustrated by Nikita Fabbro with information curated by expert sommeliers, the puzzle highlights Italian wine regions and their signature grape varieties. $49

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Cheers

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Made with Knob Creek rye, Luxardo Maraschino liqueur and bitters, and served over a large whiskey ice cube, “it has become our best-selling cocktail and a new guest favorite,” says Lehmann. To date, 23% of wine mix has come from Master Sommelier Selection. The new Master Sommelier Selection at Maggiano’s.

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Dry Atlas

DECEMBER 4, 2024

About three weeks before harvest, tea plants are shaded from sunlight to soften bitterness and amplify the tea’s natural sweetness and signature umami. Ethanol, a mild anesthetic, numbs taste buds and mutes the bitter, sour, and umami notes chefs meticulously incorporate into their dishes.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

You also get a little bit of almond-skin bitterness at the end, balancing out all that ripe fruit. Abraham Valdez, sommelier, Hilton Cancun Mar Caribe All-Inclusive Resort , Cancun, Mexico “For [inexpensive] Champagne, I love Lucien Albrecht Crémant d’Alsace Brut. The texture is creamy, but the bubbles keep it light on its feet.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

It’s bitter, bright, and boozy, and paired with the salty, crunchy kombu celery, it’s the perfect drinking experience. Sweet vermouth and bitters keep things classic, while orgeat provides a calming dose of sweetness. But the Plum Boulevardier is the real sleeper hit at the tucked away Park Slope bar.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Sommelier Nikita Malhotra curated a wine list that matches the restaurants seafood-focused fare, but theres a twist: The extensive program exclusively features white wines. (OK, As for the profile: Fruity, lightly herbaceous, bitter, and sweet, the best way to describe this drink is, well, a Salad Negroni.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The bitter irony of the Ukraine war is that most of it is being fought over areas in the countrys southeast that, before the war, tended to speak Russian rather than Ukrainian and often shared more with Russia and its Soviet past than with western Ukraine. Artwine is a more complicated story. Thick skin, more tannin.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 15, 2024

For wine nerds, world-renowned sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier needs no introduction. Renowned wine educator, writer, and sommelier Kelli White shares her personal approach to learning about and enjoying wine in her latest book, Wine Confident. One Thousand Vines: A New Way to Understand Wine Pascaline Lepeltier, Octopus, October 2024.

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