Wait, the Cheapest Bottle on a Wine List Costs How Much Now?
PUNCH
MAY 9, 2024
Less than a decade ago, it was routine to find great wines under $40 at top New York City restaurants. What happens when even entry-level wines feel like luxury items?
Ask a Somm: Is It Rude to Take a Picture of the Bottle I Ordered?
VinePair
JANUARY 22, 2025
If you didnt take a picture of a bottle of wine, did you even drink it? In the era of sharing flex Burgundies and unicorn natural wines on social media, sometimes it feels like the answer is no. I think it’s fine for guests to take pictures of the bottles they order, she says.
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Why Wine Service Sucks Right Now (but Doesn’t Have To)
VinePair
MARCH 7, 2025
Theres been a ton of chatter lately about how wine service, especially in NYC, is kind of a mess right now. So whats actually going on with wine service right now? Simple: The somms are the ones who actually know the wine. Now, if a guest is lost in a giant wine list and needs guidance, having a somm step in is great.
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Spanish Wine Bars Are Having a Moment
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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Why Cask-Strength Spirits Require Distinct Bottle Designs
VinePair
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Every spirits brand wants its packaging to look attractive and stand out on the shelf, but when the time comes to design a new bottle, aesthetics are only a fraction of the equation. Cask-strength bourbons are pulled right from the barrel and bottled without dilution. the explanation lies in how alcohol interacts with heat.
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Taste Test: Alcohol-Free Sparkling Wines
Imbibe Magazine
OCTOBER 23, 2024
The caliber of many widely available NA sparkling wines has improved dramatically in recent years, making it easier than ever to pop bottles everyone can enjoy. It has the most wine-centric nose of the bottles we tasted, with white grape juice and tart lemon rind followed by faint floral and red berry notes. . $44,
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5 to Try: Orange Wines
Imbibe Magazine
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Despite its ancient roots and modern popularity, orange wine still lacks a legal definition and currently remains categorized under white wine. Sommelier Doreen Winkler leaned into the former, launching the first orange wine subscription service in 2019. I became obsessed with orange wine over a decade ago,” she says.
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Drinks Atlas: Finger Lakes Wines
Imbibe Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2024
In a craggy corner of New York state, the Finger Lakes might not strike you as the ideal place to grow wine grapes. But this region produces some of America’s best bottles, says Erika Frey, a wine educator and co-founder of Saperica , a nonprofit organization that hosts an annual Finger Lakes wine fair, Saperavi Festival.
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5 to Try: Mission Wines
Imbibe Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2024
A red wine grape with centuries of history throughout the Americas, Mission goes by several names. Next-generation Mission wines are a diverse lot, spanning zippy rosés, rich reds, and light-bodied, ruby-hued wines that are especially refreshing when chilled. 21.95, empirewine.com Scythian Wine Co. 47.99, mexicanwine.us
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5 to Try: Cava, and the Wines Formerly Known as Cava
Imbibe Magazine
JULY 9, 2024
Odds are, your familiarity with Cava, the sparkling wine of Spain’s Catalonia region, may simply be as a cheap bottle of bubbles. That’s because the vast majority of the quarter billion bottles sold globally are classified as Cava de Guarda, the youngest and least expensive category.
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Drink of the Week: Bonny Doon Carbon Nay Rosé Wine
Imbibe Magazine
OCTOBER 18, 2024
It probably doesn’t shock you to hear that thick glass bottles have heavy environmental footprints. What might be more surprising is how much of a problem glass presents for wine, an industry deeply connected to the climate. I’ve seen estimates that glass is responsible for anywhere from 29% to 50% of wine’s carbon impact.
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A New Wave of French Wine Bars
Imbibe Magazine
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
For Jorge Riera , the headline-making, French-heavy wine lists he created for New York City’s Frenchette aren’t especially new—for him. To Jon Bonné, managing editor of Resy and author of The New French Wine (Ten Speed Press, 2023), the return of France as a dominant news peg in the wine world feels a little like a homecoming.
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5 (More) to Try: Slovenian Wine
Imbibe Magazine
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
Intrigued by the growing presence of Slovenian wine on store shelves and wine lists, we dove into the category in our March/April 2024 issue. Daniel Lukin-Beck, general manager of Vinum Imports , which has specialized in wines from the country for more than 20 years, offered an introduction in our “5 to Try” column.
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The 30 Best White Wines for 2025
VinePair
JANUARY 22, 2025
2025 is the year of white wine. We taste a wide variety of white wines each year at VinePair. Its an amazing category and were excited to see our wine culture lean toward the straw, lemon, and golden hues. Here are the 30 best white wines for 2025. So lets get it started right! So have a look and get ready to go shopping!
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6 to Try: Small-Producer Wine Picks From The Ruby Fruit
Imbibe Magazine
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
One of our 2024 Imbibe 75 Places to Watch, The Ruby Fruit —a buzzed-about restaurant and wine bar in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood and the city’s first lesbian bar in years—is all about cultivating a welcoming, community-minded space. Terah Wine Co. Terah Wine Co. ’s Or a bottle for the table!”
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Would You Drink Fine Wine From a Paper Bottle?
VinePair
MAY 20, 2024
Wine packaging has gone through a wild transition over the past two decades. The now-normalized staple, boxed wine , has found a home with college bag-slappers , casual restaurant BTG programs , and garage refrigerators worldwide. An adorably designed 750-milliliter bottle in paper-based form. The newest contender?
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Just Popping By a BYO Party With 200 of NYC’s Top Wine Pros
PUNCH
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Top New York City wine pros and sommeliers recently attended a BYO party and NYC restaurant Claud. Here are the bottles they brought.
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The VinePair Podcast: ‘Allocated’ Wines and Alienating Guests
VinePair
JANUARY 14, 2025
A brand releases a coveted, limited-edition whiskey, and retailers are only allowed to purchase a handful of bottles to sell, driving up hype and unfortunately secondary market prices. But in the wine world, the terms meaning can occasionally get warped or misconstrued. ” Does the average consumer know what that means?
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The VinePair Podcast: Shorter Wine Lists Are Not a Panacea
VinePair
JANUARY 22, 2025
Shorter wine lists are becoming more commonplace at restaurants, and some have suggested that this trend is good for the industry as a whole. While the shift does make bottle and by-the-glass lists less intimidating, thus preventing restaurants cellars from clogging with dusty bottles, it may not be the best thing for the wine world.
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Elements: PX Sherry
Imbibe Magazine
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Nobody’s quite sure why Pedro Ximénez grapes, or the fortified wine made from them, bear a name more apt for a human. But one thing is absolutely true about the Pedro Ximénez style of sherry (typically shortened to PX): The wine anchors the dark, indulgent end of the sherry category’s flavor range.
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Cupcake Vineyards and Love Is Blind Collab for Love is Wine Chardonnay
Chilled Magazine
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Netflix’s Love Is Blind is officially collaborating with Cupcake Vineyards to exclusively launch Love Is Wine Chardonnay, a first of its kind collaboration for the show. The limited-edition bottles are inspired by the unmistakable golden goblets featured on Love Is Blind.
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A New Generation of Vermouth Puts Wine in the Spotlight
Imbibe Magazine
APRIL 2, 2024
Dave O’Brien’s wine-focused vermouth has its origin story in a great vacation. “On Among the many aspects of Basque culture that O’Brien enjoyed was Txakoli , the dry, white wine made from the Hondarrabi Zuri grape. (A A rosé version from a related grape is more prominent on the export market than it is in the wine’s home region.)
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The Next Era of Spanish Wine Starts Now
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. Spanish wine—even great Spanish wine—isn’t new to stateside customers.
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What It’s Like To Be a Pregnant Bartender
Imbibe Magazine
MARCH 11, 2025
I was really worried about what all these men would think if I came over to their table with a big belly and a bottle of wine. I was really worried about what all these men would think if I came over to their table with a big belly and a bottle of wine. I had never seen a pregnant sommelier, James remembers.
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It’s Prime Time for Prosecco
Imbibe Magazine
DECEMBER 22, 2023
These days, when you hear the sound of a cork popping, there’s a good chance a bottle of Prosecco is nearby. million bottles of the bubbly stuff were sold in 2022. ” But with more education comes a willingness to try exemplary Prosecco, and with that willingness comes more awareness of the wine’s many virtues. .”
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5 to Try: Crushable Summer Wines
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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Cava Reclaims Its Identity and Charts a New Way Forward
Imbibe Magazine
JULY 1, 2024
Eduard Viader grabs a bottle from a riddling rack, pulls off the metal brace that secured the cork, and with his index finger covering the closure to keep it from flying off, uses his clawlike wrench to ease the cork out of the bottle. He spins the bottle to tamp down the fizz and turns it upright.
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Everybody Knows Josh
PUNCH
JANUARY 24, 2024
Josh wine has gone viral thanks to memes about the notorious bottle. The jokes illuminate how wine drinkers cope with a confusing industry.
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Drink of the Week: Johan Vineyards 2022 Savagnin
Imbibe Magazine
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
The delight found in opening an unexpected bottle of wine is right up there with stumbling across a sunsetsheer ephemeral joy. And so it was when I popped the cork on the Johan Vineyards Savagnin, a wine I knew nothing about and immediately, thoroughly, enjoyed.
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The Mount Rushmore of California Wine, According to 8 Wine Experts
VinePair
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Relative to Europe’s multi-millennia wine history, California is still just a baby. But whether or not France , Italy , and the rest of the Euro cohort care to admit it, the grand Golden State has fashioned an equally commanding seat in the boardroom of storied wine regions. Surprisingly, not a single wine was mentioned twice!
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Drink of the Week: Cleto Chiarli “Vecchia Modena Premium” Lambrusco
Imbibe Magazine
MAY 24, 2024
Honestly, “it’s Tuesday” was reason enough to pop open a bottle of Lambrusco from the range I had recently received from historic Emilia-Romagna producer Cleto Chiarli. We threw together an impromptu charcuterie board and popped a bottle of the Vecchia Modena Premium.
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Better Drinks Take Flight
Imbibe Magazine
JUNE 10, 2024
“I make it all the time now when I’m in the air, since it’s low-ABV and only two ingredients: Coca-Cola and red wine,” she says. My tip is to mix those two together in a 100ml bottle before you go through security. The Wine List “Glasses of Champagne are a must on the plane,” says Xavier Thuizat.
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Drink of the Week: Wairau River Pinot Gris
Imbibe Magazine
JULY 12, 2024
Learning about wine is also an excellent way to learn about geography. With a commercial industry that only really began in the 1970s, the wines of New Zealand still only represent about 1 percent of the global market. It was Sauvignon Blanc that put the country on the world’s wine radar.
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Ask A Bartender: Clarke Anderson on Mixing with Matcha, Turmeric and Tepache
Chilled Magazine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Being raised in a family that valued food and wine, Clarke Anderson’s interest in food science and culinary arts was sparked early on. oz tepache Preparation Etched rocks } Baller Ice } chili threads *Japanese dasher bottle. I had never felt such a strong connection between people and their agriculture. 5 oz lime juice.5
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Q&A: Tony Parker, NBA Star and Winemaker
Imbibe Magazine
JULY 1, 2024
Tony Parker, the six-time NBA All-Star who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2023, started learning about wine when he was 17. The parents of the girl I was dating were really into wine,” he says. “My My family couldn’t afford big wines or restaurants, but I got to taste some good ones with them. Coach Popovich loves wine.
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Where to Drink in Downtown Napa
Imbibe Magazine
MAY 20, 2024
Instead, Bailey’s Cadet Wine + Beer Bar played a major role in the revitalization of Napa’s formerly sleepy downtown. Photo courtesy of Folklore Cadet You may find yourself on the barstool next to the winemaker whose bottle you just ordered at this welcoming industry hangout just off Napa’s main drag. Cocktails at Angèle.
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Taste Test: Blanc Vermouth
Imbibe Magazine
APRIL 8, 2024
Here are six bottles to acquaint you with the category. Comoz Vermouth de Chambéry Blanc Expect Alpine botanicals plus the unmistakable flavor and aroma of wormwood from this 1881 French bottle that concludes with a long, white peach–forward finish. Drinks historians disagree about whether C. .
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Taste Test: Prosecco
Imbibe Magazine
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Up until 2009, the name could refer to either the grape or the wine, allowing producers outside of the wine’s historic northern Italian home to use Prosecco grapes and bottle it as such. And many quality, historically minded producers offer their fruit-forward, food-friendly wines for $20 or less.
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This Winter, Throw an Après-Ski Party
Imbibe Magazine
DECEMBER 18, 2024
In addition to a crockpot of mulled wine or glgg , set out bottles of freezer martinis , a ready-to-drink signature cocktail, and/or a winter punch. . | Photos by Mobs Robertson for Electric Hospitality Aprs-Ski Sips As with every party, a self-serve bar stocked with a few spirits and mixers is key to keeping the host sane.
We Asked 9 Wine Pros: What’s the Most Overrated White Wine?
VinePair
OCTOBER 13, 2024
White wines tend to evoke feelings of refreshment and relaxation. Sure, popular white wine varieties like Pinot Grigio , Sauvignon Blanc , and Chardonnay tend to be zippy and light, which makes them ideal for balancing the saline-kissed sweetness of fresh seafood. But a healthy chunk of white wine’s magic is its vibe.
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Imbibe 75 Person to Watch: Kira Ballota
Imbibe Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2024
Every bottle from her new label, Cantadora Wines , does just that. To date, the six-bottle lineup includes a Tempranillo honoring Sonia Melara, founder of California’s first domestic violence shelter, and a Rhône blend saluting Marianne Page, an economics researcher working to reduce child poverty. It’s a hard line to walk.
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The 30 Best Rosé Wines of 2024
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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