VinePair

DECEMBER 24, 2023

‘Tis the season for honey-baked ham, mashed potatoes, pecan pie, and all the other festive standbys. It’s also the season when all these delights take up valuable fridge real estate as leftovers in the days following your festivities. The good news: Said leftovers will be less redundant and much more enticing if you simply add cheese. And, if you’re a tad strategic about it, you can unlock some flavor-matching magic to give an old dish new life.

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Wine Bitters Beer 105

Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 24, 2023

It was another tough year for the whisky nerds among us – which is, well, all of us – as we tried to pare down the hundreds of options we reviewed throughout 2023 and come up with a list of the ten that excited us the most. Yes, we heard your cries from last year: Too many luxe unicorns, not enough attainable juice. We’ve tempered our taste for four-figure spirits this time around, and while most of the whiskeys we picked for 2023 cost more than $100, only one lands in what we’d consider unicorn

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Whiskey Rum Wine Bottling 90

Malt

DECEMBER 24, 2023

'Tis the season. The post Bimber Single Cask Santa’s Edition 2023 first appeared on Malt.

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Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Foley Family Wines is best known — as the name would suggest — for its wine operations, a vast empire which includes Chalk Hill , Sebastiani , Chateau St. Jean, and many more brands. Recently Foley got into the spirits game, and while we’ll review its first bourbon in short order, today we’re examining its inaugural gin, Lighthouse Gin, which is made by New Zealand’s first head distiller, Rachel Hall.

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Gin Wine Alcohol 88

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PubClub

DECEMBER 24, 2023

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Nightlife Beer Bar Alcohol 52

Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Mala Mia Mexcal launched earlier this year with four expressions: Espadín, Ensamble, Cuishe, and Tepeztate. Traditionally distilled by Saturnino Martínez Méndez in the village of Santiago Matatlán in Oaxaca, the operation uses agave aged anywhere from 6 to 26 years of age, cutting them down whole. (This is the inspiration for the name Mala Mia, which roughly translates to “my bad.

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Tequila 84