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Dig If You Will These Prince-Inspired Cocktails

Dig If You Will These Prince-Inspired Cocktails

April showers bring Purple Rainy Day drinks

Featured, CocktailsAmanda SchusterApril 25, 2019drinkwire, cocktails, apollonia, bourbon, ginComment

Wine School: Extended Maceration

Wine School: Extended Maceration

This centuries’ old technique adds deep colors, flavors and texture from the grapes themselves

Featured, WineKelly MagyaricsApril 23, 2019wine, vinification, winemaking, red wine, nebbiolo, barolo, barbarescoComment

What's the Difference Between Sustainable, Organic and Biodynamic Wine?

What's the Difference Between Sustainable, Organic and Biodynamic Wine?

Every day is Earth Day when you sip these earth-friendly wines.

Featured, WineAmanda SchusterApril 19, 2019drinkwire, wine, biodynamic wine, new york international wine competition, 101Comment

Carrot Cocktails To Get To the Root of Spring Entertaining

Carrot Cocktails To Get To the Root of Spring Entertaining

More than just a lunchbox snack, this vivid orange root vegetable adds sweet and earthy notes to seasonal drinks.

Cocktails, Featured, EntertainingKelly MagyaricsApril 17, 2019drinkwire, cocktails, gin, tequila, bourbon, melbourne international spirits competition, springComment

Wines of Southern California

Wines of Southern California

California’s wine country doesn’t begin and end north of San Francisco.

Featured, Wine, Field TripsTrevor HagstromApril 12, 2019wine, new york international wine competition, natural wineComment

The New New York Wine

The New New York Wine

Perspectives from the 2019 NY Drinks NY Grand Tasting

Featured, WineAndrew McFetridgeApril 10, 2019wine, hudson river ava, new york international wine competition, dessert wineComment

Spring Wine: Focus on Grüner Veltliner

Spring Wine: Focus on Grüner Veltliner

This Austrian white wine is peppery, piquant, and perfectly pairable with everything you are serving

Featured, Wine, Keep ReadingKelly MagyaricsApril 3, 2019gruner veltliner, federspiel wine, wine varietalsComment

That Dandy, Randy, Brandy Alexander

That Dandy, Randy, Brandy Alexander

A tale of cocktails, lobsters, Ziegfeld girls, and gossip columnists

Featured, CocktailsKeith AllisonMarch 29, 2019drinkwire, new york international spirits competitionComment

5 Spring Aperitifs To Kick Off Seasonal Celebrations

5 Spring Aperitifs To Kick Off Seasonal Celebrations

Bright citrus, fresh herbs and even stalky vegetables go into these drinks that give winter the heave ho.

Featured, CocktailsKelly MagyaricsMarch 21, 2019drinkwire, cocktails, gin, new york international spirits competition, tequila, floralComment

Baby, It's Cold Up There, But It's Not All Icewine in Canada

Baby, It's Cold Up There, But It's Not All Icewine in Canada

A varietal and style sampling of the Niagara Peninsula

Wine, FeaturedAshley Ellen MartinMarch 13, 2019drinkwire, cabernet franc, riesling, chardonnay, pinot noir, gewurztraminerComment

Don't Be Afraid to Put Calvados in Cocktails

Don't Be Afraid to Put Calvados in Cocktails

The apple brandy from Normandy is delicious, accessible and highly mixable.

Featured, Spirits, CocktailsNickolaus HinesMarch 11, 2019calvados, cocktails, drinkwire, brandyComment

Winemaking: the Next Generation

How the younger set of family winemakers takes up the mantle.

Featured, WineAmanda SchusterFebruary 28, 2019drinkwire, wine, winemaking, champagne, profileComment

Anatomy of a Drink: The Cubist Cocktail

How art and landscape inspired a Sweden-based bartender for his Bacardí Legacy entry.

Cocktails, FeaturedAmanda SchusterFebruary 27, 2019drinkwire, liquor, liquor.com, recipes, profileComment

South American Wine Underdogs

South American Wine Underdogs

Make room for carménère and torrontés at the dinner table

Featured, WineAndrew McFetridgeFebruary 21, 2019white wine, red wine, cabernet franc, haut medoc, drinkwire, new york international wine competition, berlin international wine competitionComment

Bored of Big, Red Wine? Try These Winter Whites Instead

Bored of Big, Red Wine? Try These Winter Whites Instead

No need to go beyond the pale when choosing chilly weather wine; these bottles speak to the season too.

Featured, WineKelly MagyaricsFebruary 19, 2019drinkwire, white wine, gewurztraminer, riesling, marsanne, roussanne, chardonnay, chablis, meursault, new york international wine competitionComment

Winter Whiskey Sours

Winter Whiskey Sours

7 ways to change up the go-to whiskey sour with winter citrus

Cocktails, Featured, Keep ReadingMaggie KimberlFebruary 15, 2019drinkwire, bourbon, whiskey, meyer lemon, new york international spirits competition, blood orange, winterComment

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

Toddies and other hot cocktail recipes to warm the soul on frigid days.

Cocktails, FeaturedDevon TrevathanFebruary 8, 2019cocktails, hot cocktails, toddy, hot whiskey, whiskey, new york international spirits competitionComment

Exploring Dry Creek Zinfandel

Exploring Dry Creek Zinfandel

These wines aren’t the alcoholic jam jars you might expect from California zin.

Featured, WineTrevor HagstromFebruary 7, 2019wine, zinfandel, dry creek ava, sonoma valleyComment

Loving the Alien: a David Bowie Tribute In Cocktails

Loving the Alien: a David Bowie Tribute In Cocktails

Hot tramp, we love you so! Bowie-inspired drink recipes from around the world to close out January, his birth and death month.

5 Winter Citrus Cocktails To Ward Off Winter Doldrums

5 Winter Citrus Cocktails To Ward Off Winter Doldrums

Vibrant and juicy produce lightens and brightens drinks in the dead of winter.

Cocktails, Keep ReadingKelly MagyaricsJanuary 24, 2019drinkwire, cocktails, gin, rum, kumquat, new york international spirits competition, new york international beer competition, lime, winter Comment