March 20, 2025 — Follador Prosecco dal 1769 is set to showcase Italian winemaking excellence on one of the world’s most prestigious stages. On 29th March, the historic winery from Col […]
March 20, 2025 — On 19 May 2025, the international wine guide Star Wine List will celebrate the great wine lists of Switzerland, in person, for the first time – […]
Chicago-based Molson Coors Beverage Co. is giving legal-aged drinkers a new reason to start the weekend on Thursday with the launch of Happy Thursday Raspberry Dragonfruit — the latest drop from Happy Thursday Spiked Refreshers.
New data shows younger drinkers overwhelmingly prefer to buy alcohol online, yet outdated distribution laws and retailer hesitation leave billions in sales unserved. LOS ANGELES, March 20, 2025 – DRINKS, […]
Cosimo III de’ Medici (1642-1723) was the penultimate Grand Duke of Tuscany and the least illustrious of the de’ Medici dynasty. He has gone down in history as a pretty ineffectual ruler, but he was responsible for one piece of legislation which lends a positive note to an otherwise somewhat tarnished reputation. Cosimo created a …
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There’s no shortage of history in Napa Valley. As the United States’s premier wine region (and the second to achieve official AVA status), it’s responsible for putting American wine on the global map. But before Napa was dominated by names like Stag’s Leap, Screaming Eagle, and Opus One, there was Charles Krug. Located in St. …
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Kent Hospitality Group, the restaurant and bar collective founded by the late chef James Kent, has a reputation for bringing dining and drinking to some of New York’s most beautiful, historic, yet previously publicly inaccessible, addresses. The restaurants Crown Shy and Saga and the bar Overstory, for example, are all housed at 70 Pine Street, …
Fine wines are made for investment. Some of them won’t ever even be consumed. They’ll just continue to be passed from generation to generation, steadily accumulating value. Fine wines are, in short, wines designed to make people money. Enter: Rudy Kurniawan. Indonesian-born Kurniawan arrived in the United States in the 1990s on a student visa. …
Brewers have released countless beers with strange names over the years, but doing so is a rather low-stakes endeavor. If a name doesn’t resonate with the public, brewers can simply scrap it and come up with a new one for the next batch. The same can’t be said, however, for the names of their businesses. …
Average vineyard value in the UK county of Essex was up 20% year-on-year, as prices have come under pressure in several more established wine world regions, said the 2025 wealth report by global consultancy group Knight Frank. Interest in producing still wines has pushed vineyard prices in Essex to US$120,000 per hectare on average, although …
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