VinePair

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The French region of Bordeaux is home to some of the most coveted wines and vineyards on the planet, but how did it get to where it is today? The area had always been a port town and was well documented as being a heavy commerce area, but there’s no history of wine actually being made in the region’s early days.

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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Alcoholic beverages date back to 13,000 BCE, when the first evidence of brewing beer was documented. The first indication of wine appears in 5,000 BCE, and the word “aperitif” first shows up in writing in the 5th century CE. The pair discussed the history of the American cocktail and how major U.S.

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VinePair

JUNE 17, 2024

It’s a seemingly immutable reality for modern wine marketing as a concept. In a nutshell, the idea posits that fine wine — at least as it has existed in the market during our lifetime — requires cultural experience, intellectual investment, and refinement of taste to finally flip the switch of the proverbial lightbulb.

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Spiritz

JUNE 21, 2024

First, I would like to thank you for this opportunity to speak to Spiritz magazine on behalf of OIV, the international scientific and technical reference organisation for the vine and wine sector. Further, this year we have sought to bring the world of vine and wine together to consider the challenges and opportunities ahead.

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The Whiskey Wash

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A new true-crime book by Mike Gerrard introduces the world of alcohol crimes, from whiskey heists to fake million-dollar wine. Well if nipping to your local liquor shop to restock seems like a stretch sometimes, imagine how desperate for a drink you’d need to be to steal a $50,000 bottle or a million dollars of wine?

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Drinkhacker

JULY 18, 2024

While vineyards have existed on the property for centuries, it was acquired by Sacha Lichine, himself no stranger to wine royalty, in 2006, with the aim of keeping the family tradition alive and creating the highest pedigree of quality rosé wines.

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VinePair

JUNE 5, 2024

You’ve heard of Franciacorta and perhaps had the pleasure of sipping the region’s stellar sparkling and still wines. Masnaghetti’s map both defines an evolving wine region and helps its rapidly growing audience understand a multifaceted part of the world. At the time, almost all the wine in the region was still — no bubbles.

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PubClub

MARCH 20, 2024

California offers several types of liquor licenses, including Type 41 (On-Sale Beer and Wine Eating Place), Type 47 (On-Sale General Eating Place), and Type 48 (On-Sale General Public Premises). Type 41 licenses are suitable for restaurants that primarily serve food and want to offer beer and wine to their customers.

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A Bar Above

MAY 25, 2024

Simply asking each bartender , “What is the house pour for spirits and wine?” Here are some key areas where systems can be developed, documented, and trained. The truth is, this area alone will make the biggest difference for long term customer retention and profitability. This is even more important when opening a new location.)

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Dry Atlas

JUNE 12, 2024

By Monica Olano, Co-Founder and CEO, Cali Sober Mom If you’ve found yourself Googling “what is a California sober mom,” you’re likely feeling overwhelmed by the pressures of Mommy Wine Culture and considering alternatives. Being California Sober involves replacing alcohol with cannabis or hemp products.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 13, 2024

Expat journalist Rebekah Peppler has spent the better part of a decade living in Paris and traveling through France as she documents the country’s culinary culture. And something like Le Grande Plage [Lillet, amaro, bitters, sparkling wine] is the spritz that I want to be drinking when it’s warm and beautiful out.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Toni Tipton-Martin has been making and documenting food and beverage history for decades. After tirelessly researching and documenting 200 years’ worth of Black drinks history, Tipton-Martin compiled the recipes, stories, and names that she found into the book’s pages to give them new life.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The mounting tension in the Napa County wine world has reached a boiling point. As such, we are unable to comment on a document we have not seen.” On Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that three Napa Valley wineries are suing Napa County over alleged overregulation.

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The Whiskey Wash

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

I was curious to know why he looked to whisky rather than the more traditional beer or wine pairings. We started with blind taste tests of other whiskeys, other spirits, cut and uncut, wine, beer, everything. The sets also include additional booklets documenting the creation of the whiskies themselves.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 8, 2024

Publications like Food & Wine and Forbes and even Space.com have roundups of eclipse beers from around the country; I would point you towards our Preferred Subscriber archives of label emails over the last few months for all of my picks. See ‘ya in 2044, all you beers named Path of Totality!

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Good Spirits News

APRIL 23, 2024

” Shochu is Japan’s oldest distilled alcoholic beverage, with the earliest documented mentions of shochu dating from the 1500s. GSN Rating: A++ For more information go to: Nikaido Shuzou To order go to: Hi-Time Wine #NikaidoShochu It is also Japan’s most popular spirit, outselling both nihon-shu (sake), and whiskey.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JUNE 24, 2024

I only learned of its existence while scanning ILCC brewery license documentation (because that’s how I party) but I was never able to get to it on any of my trips to the city. For a while now, I’ve been meaning to write about what’s going on at a small brewery that I haven’t seen anyone ever mention. Like, anywhere.

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The Whiskey Wash

JULY 11, 2024

Most of the time whisky is not like wine, with vintages meaning little for expected quality and price. Photo: Rich Maciver Art Makes The Difference For Premium Whisky The use of art by brands to generate value is a well documented phenomena. Iris scored an equally impressive 96 points.

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Good Spirits News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

All the Ferrands were farmers, wine growers, connected to the earth and lived in the heart of Grande Champagne. Luckily, several centuries of archives and detailed documents remained in the family manor, owned today by Maison Ferrand. The first of the main branch of Ferrands was named Elie.

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Australian Bartender

JUNE 24, 2024

I expected that its story would be quite well documented, with perhaps a squabble over which exact bar in New Orleans had first mixed one, but instead, I opened a can of worms. How hard could it be? It’s a pretty well-known drink that retained reasonable popularity even through the cocktail dark ages.

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Old Liquors Magazine

MARCH 5, 2024

World-class wine. Lots and lots of wine. In this small, French village in the heart of Burgundy, everything seems to revolve around wine—from its festivals to its world-famous annual wine auction to the underground cellars. But no matter who ruled or lived in Beaune, wine always seemed to be an important part of the city.

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VinePair

MARCH 13, 2024

That phenomenon eventually gave way to the advent of the flip in 1874, which was first documented as a shaken cocktail with a whole egg, sugar, brandy or gin , and garnished with nutmeg. Dean Swift Credit: Guinness For fans of mulled wine , Hot Toddies , and Irish Coffees , the Dean Swift has entered the hot cocktail conversation.

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VinePair

AUGUST 22, 2024

On my birthday a few years ago, a friend who works in the wine industry bought me a bartender’s handshake shot at a bar. It’s a Ferrari — Fernet and Campari ,” she said. We do sort of a blended bottle situation, where whoever’s got the task of making amaro that day gets to pick and choose a blend they like within reason.”

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Barina Craft

MARCH 28, 2023

Haven’t been able to find much information at all, but this article which documents the quest to have several Kansas City bartenders make an Ice Water suggests the drink’s name comes from the murkiness added by the lime juice and the apparent perception by some that “KC’s water comes straight from a dirty river.”

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The Whiskey Wash

APRIL 27, 2024

In contrast, Daniel’s biographer Peter Krass records in the 2004 biography Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel that official registration documents assert the distillery was not established until 1875. After guiding the distillery through Prohibition, the Depression and wartime closure, Lem Motlow passed away in 1947.

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VinePair

MARCH 6, 2024

Ian Ryan, the London-based creator of the @shitlondonguinness Instagram account, can relate to this feeling as someone who got famous simply for documenting shitty pours of Guinness Draught Stout in bars. The dedication to this ritual comforts me, like carrying on some oral history that’s been passed down, however dubious.

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VinePair

JULY 2, 2024

I talked with Charles about doing a sort of bar passport for the area,” Green says, envisioning a document listing bars in the area that customers could have punched with each different bar visit. Bronze Owl bar director Max Green was behind the bar. Green and Joly have known each other for nearly a decade. “I

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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. By the 1880s, phylloxera had wreaked havoc on wine, brandy , and Cognac production, so Scotch was poised for a boom.

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Three Spirit

JUNE 8, 2023

But, yes – I still do enjoy a Margarita or glass of wine with my girlfriends from time to time. As a nutritional therapist documenting wellness tips online , what other advice would you give to young people about looking after their health? But Sharp is ALWAYS on my dinner party table too! E: I agree.

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PubClub

APRIL 19, 2024

s Overserved with Lisa Vanderpump documents her penchant for entertaining, while hosting a plethora of celebrity guests. Vanderpump also has her family’s signature Vanderpump Vodka, Vanderpump Wines, and Vanderpump Sangria in both on-premise and off-premise locations worldwide.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

To determine whether or not the water would be suitable for whiskey distillation, the co-founders studied historical documents and consulted with hydrologists and water chemists at the University of Kentucky. Sprance’s brewing prowess is on full display in the brand’s Kentucky Sour Mash Single Malt , which is bottled at 56.9

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VinePair

JANUARY 30, 2024

America has a sweet tooth, but when it comes to wine, many tend to avoid bottles with a high sugar content. But if you find a well-made, harmonious bottle, sweet wines can be some of the most complex and age-worthy wines in the world. In sweet wines, balance is key. There’s a bright pop of peppery, dark fruit on the nose.

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Barina Craft

MARCH 28, 2023

4 Champagne cups are sparkling wine, citrus, sugar and ice that when served with Old Tom gin are basically French 75 cocktails with Old Tom instead of London dry gin. Similar punch recipes have been documented prior as well. Lemon is indispensable, and they are usually well sweetened with sugar. Banquet Book 5 Sound familiar?

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