Anne Hollister, the New York-based producer and actor at production company HappyBad Bungalow and a Millennial, was recently on a date with a 26-year-old Gen Z man. When the drinks arrived, Hollister didn’t even notice that she’d raised her glass for a ritualistic clink, though she did clock her date’s reaction. “He was taken aback,” …
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Shock results from the Premiere Napa Valley auction shows King Cabernet has lost its crown.
Around 2020, a fiery version of a beloved classic cocktail hit the mainstream: the Spicy Margarita. Takes on the drink had existed for years, but the 2020s saw the cocktail’s popularity increase exponentially, with Google searches for the spicy drink surging over 340 percent from December 2019 to May 2020. Interest in the cocktail quickly …
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More doom and gloom this week as economic woes hit winemakers in Italy, France and Switzerland.
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