The white wine grapes that we know and love take on entirely different personalities when made with skin contact. Once grapes like Pinot Grigio, Grüner Veltliner, or Viognier spend some time aging on their skins, they transform and develop new layers of depth and flavor. They often have more body and structure than their white …
Aside from the balmy temperatures, one of the best things about summertime is the food. From garden-ripe tomatoes, stone fruits, and melons to backyard barbecues and fresh seafood al fresco, there is no shortage of flavor during the warmest months of the year. And what’s a better pairing for these summer provisions than the perfect …
We Asked 10 Sommeliers: What’s Your Favorite Summer Food and Wine Pairing? Read More »
A tax designed to help fund a special Sonoma Wine Business Improvement District has been paused. Wine-Searcher finds out why.
Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA), Washington, D.C., released the SipSource 2025 Q2 Report, with spirits falling 6% in volume and down 5% in revenue, while wine posted sharper drops of -8.7% in volume and -8.5% in revenue.
On Wednesday, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits announced that it reached an agreement with Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) to acquire its New York City distribution operation. With its expanded reach, Southern Glazer’s — the largest wine and spirits distributor in the U.S. — plans to launch a new division: the Southern Glazer’s Beverage Company of New …
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The Partnership aligns OPC UA Standardization and Cross-Industry Data Interoperability to Comply with Regional Regulations like the EU Digital Product Passport Scottsdale (AZ), USA / Berlin, Germany, August 19th, 2025 – The Catena-X Automotive Network e. V. and the OPC Foundation have announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate standardized, cross-company data sharing across the manufacturing industry. …
If you followed VinePair’s 2025 Martini Madness bracket earlier this year, you already know that we crowned the Martini at the newly opened schmuck as the best in New York City right now. The unexpected combination of gin with dry and blanc vermouths, Blanche de Normandie, shochu, and drops of olive oil impressed us on …
NYC’s Best Martini Is Now Available as a Spritz for the Summer Read More »
There are those who think Finger Lakes Pinot Noir is an oxymoron — that the region in upstate New York is too cold, too wet, too unpredictable for the notoriously challenging grape to have much of a chance at success. Better to stick with the Rieslings for which the region is world- renowned, or perhaps …
9 of the Best Pinot Noirs From New York’s Finger Lakes Read More »
The night of the “Love Island” finale last month, I stumbled into the Waiting Room, a cavernous cocktail bar on a quiet block in downtown Hoboken. On screen, the lusty contestants paired off; in the bar, the overwhelmingly female crowd erupted — jeering and howling as if they were watching a championship game. Aperol Spritzes …
TVs in Cocktail Bars Are Divisive — but Can They Be an Asset? Read More »
Most tequila makers have long aimed for a consistent spirit that always tastes the same. But at Tequila Ocho, the opposite is true, master distiller Carlos Camarena explains. “It was a negative thing back in the day to have different batches of tequila that would taste differently,” he says. Even at the distillery, agaves sourced …