PUNCH

JUNE 18, 2024

These are the 10 best natural wine producers to know right now, according to sommeliers, wine writers and buyers.

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VinePair

JUNE 13, 2024

This legendary region produces some of the best wines in the world, with old-vine grapes that offer a signature intensity and structure that can’t be replicated anywhere else. What counts as a bang for your buck is subjective, of course, especially when it comes to the priciest wines on the shelf. Here’s what the pros said.

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Spiritz

AUGUST 13, 2024

In a historic achievement, Kamal Malik has become the first Indian to earn the prestigious Master Sommelier title. This milestone underscores his exceptional expertise and dedication to the world of wine. He first gained recognition by winning the Hilton South East Asia FB Masters Sommelier Cup in Jakarta, in 2015.

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PUNCH

AUGUST 27, 2024

The modern wine bar can be difficult to navigate. Here, sommeliers and experts answer questions about by-the-glass menus, tipping and more.

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PUNCH

MAY 17, 2024

As the bistro staple rises in popularity (and price), many sommeliers find themselves at a crossroads: Serve the beloved wine with a thorny reputation, or find alternatives to satisfy its fans.

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VinePair

JULY 7, 2024

If you’re at a restaurant with proper wine service, you’ll likely witness what looks like a well-rehearsed dance: A guest thumbs through a binder of options and consults the sommelier once or twice before reaching a decision for the table. This ritual between sommelier and guest usually stops when both parties approve the wine.

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VinePair

MARCH 6, 2024

When it comes to serving wine, deciding when to decant your bottle can be tricky. But what about white wines? While white wines tend to lack the same tannins of the red counterparts — and oxidize much quicker — there is still merit in decanting that bottle of white Burgundy. Should You Decant White Wine?

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Everyone wants a wine that over-delivers on quality for an excellent price. But finding those kinds of deals can require a little extra wine knowledge and some research. Here, your best bets for getting your money’s worth on white wine. It is full-bodied and lively and a food-friendly wine. What more can you ask for?”

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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. Producers of the wine are pushing the regulating body, D.O. Cava, for stricter rules for quality, aiming to improve the wine’s global image and subsequent value.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In 2017, she founded the Hue Society to champion inclusivity in the wine industry and was named an Imbibe 75 Person to Watch in 2020. Since then, she’s continued to rack up accolades, such as VinePair ’s 2022 Advocate of the Year and Wine Enthusiast ’s 2023 Social Visionary of the Year. But that changed in 2011. this year. “I

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PUNCH

JUNE 18, 2024

The best natural wine producers, bottles to try, bars to visit and trends to know in 2024, according to sommeliers and experts.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Your friendly neighborhood wine shop is the perfect resource for fleshing out your wine wish list, as well as making other people’s wine wishes come true. We asked nine sommeliers across the world to share the epic bottles on their own holiday wish lists. The wines on sommeliers’ holiday wish lists in 2023: Cruse Wine Co.

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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

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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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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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The 2024 Sun Wine and Food Fest at Mohegan Sun was a spectacular celebration of culinary excellence and fine beverages. Spanning over several days, the festival brought together renowned chefs, sommeliers, mixologists, and food enthusiasts from around the world for a series of unforgettable events. We can’t wait until next year!

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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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VinePair

JANUARY 25, 2024

Beloved for producing alluring, terroir-based Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines, historic Burgundy has bewitched the beverage world for centuries. That said, we’re here to tell you it is possible to find Burgundy wines that are both excellent and affordable. Jenna Isaacs, sommelier, Rustic Canyon , Santa Monica, Calif.

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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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Old Liquors Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Las Vegas’ only tea sommelier, Lola Zhao, grew up immersed in the world of tea. Are there any similarities between a tea sommelier and a wine sommelier? “I I think any kind of sommelier has a commonality. Do teas, like wine, pair better with certain foods? “He was my first teacher. Yes, they do.

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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. So why is wine clinging to this health halo when there’s so much more to appreciate about it? The same goes for alcohol. That’s OK.

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Chilled Magazine

JUNE 13, 2024

As part of our “What We’re Hearing” about Nassau Paradise Island Wine & Food Festival at Atlantis (NPIWFF) content series, we are counting the days until the annual event in March 2025! The five-day celebration of food, wine, spirits, and Bahamian-culture attracts all sorts of talent from celebrity chefs to connoisseurs.

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VinePair

APRIL 24, 2024

Buying wine in any setting can be a little overwhelming. Even those well versed in the wine world’s many options may find it difficult to determine if they’re getting a great deal. Even those well versed in the wine world’s many options may find it difficult to determine if they’re getting a great deal.

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Chilled Magazine

APRIL 24, 2024

After discovering a passion for wine in a small plate, Spanish & Italian-inspired restaurant, Gabriella briefly explored consulting and ventures outside the industry before returning to join the opening team at Flor, the second restaurant of the Lyle’s team. How concentrated is the wine? What is the dream wine for this dish?”

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Cheers

JUNE 24, 2024

Our guest for this episode is Master Sommelier Nick Hetzel, who is one of the founders of Wineaux, a new wine market and bar in southwest Las Vegas. Nick weighs in on popular wine styles, wine education, pairings and creating an experience for guests, as well as the challenges with operating an on- and off-premise wine business.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

When Hawaii native Chuck Furuya passed the rigorous Master Sommelier exam in 1989, he was only the tenth American to do so (strangely, he shared the small island state with four fellow sommeliers during the beginning of his career). There is way more talent today than ever,” he says of the wine scene in Hawaii.

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Cheers

APRIL 23, 2024

Mexico may not yet be known for its wine, but the country’s Valle de Guadalupe is home to some of the oldest vines in the Americas, as well as the first woman-owned and operated winery in Mexico. While Margaritas and cerveza are the common drink pairings for tacos, Mexican wines make a great match as well.

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VinePair

JULY 17, 2024

Long wine lists can be daunting. If you find yourself saddled with a wine that really isn’t for you, what can you do? VinePair tapped Patrick Kattner, head sommelier at NYC Italian restaurant Foul Witch , to share some advice on how to handle this tricky situation. Technically, once you order a bottle, you’re committed to it.

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Still, despite limited space and access to fresh ingredients, airlines have introduced increasingly sophisticated drink offerings thanks to partnerships, sommeliers, and even bar pop-ups. 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.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

With many people drinking less overall, and generally drinking less wine than they used to, bars and restaurants need to pay close attention to their by-the-glass selection. What makes a wine a good contender to offer by the glass? We asked several on-premise wine professionals to share their current favorites. Classic Penedes.

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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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VinePair

APRIL 24, 2024

As a relatively new wine hobbyist, you’ve received every sort of contraption imaginable as gifts from family and friends, right? Trending shows on the small screen feature characters wielding proprietary wine instruments and catchy decanting methods in what has become a green-eyed, Hollywood-fueled, cork-dork arms race.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With red, white, rosé, and sparkling wines that reflect both the terroir and personal style of individual producers, the Languedoc is the place to shop for those in search of personality-driven wines that provide fruit, structure, terroir, and expert restraint. I’m a Certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers.

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Dry Atlas

JULY 31, 2024

Winning over the French Lauded as first the alcohol-free wines to win over the French themselves, the Cuvée Révolutionnaire boasts the industry’s finest dealcoholization capabilities along with the traditional markers of great French winemaking. Marie Wodecki, France’s champion Young Sommelier of 2023, described our Colombard as “baffling.”

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VinePair

MAY 1, 2024

Wine is notoriously finicky when it comes to storage, and for those of us without lavish wine cellars, options for where to properly stash the bottles are few and far between. To find out whether or not using your fridge as extra wine storage is a faux pas, VinePair tapped William Pye, a sommelier at Prospect in San Francisco.

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VinePair

JANUARY 3, 2024

But what happens if there’s no French or Italian wine to be found on the menu? Can a sparkling wine from Seneca Lake or a Sangiovese from Mendocino fill the gap? As America’s wine culture expands, more restaurants are experimenting with completely domestic wine programs. One of the most pressing issues is sustainability.

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VinePair

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s cool to go to Bordeaux and only see Bordeaux on wine lists — same goes for Piedmont and Barolo. It’d be a bit strange if an Italian restaurant in Manhattan had an exclusively American wine list, wouldn’t it? One could make the same case for the U.S., They have thoughts. Tune in for more. appeared first on VinePair.

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