Star Wine List Celebrates the Top Wine Lists in Switzerland
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 – […]
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The Billion-Dollar Alcohol Sales Chasm: Millennials and Gen Z Can’t Buy How They Want
New data shows younger drinkers overwhelmingly prefer to buy alcohol online, yet outdated distribution laws and retailer hesitation leave billions in sales unserved.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, […]
Baudains: How Tuscany created Europe’s first DOCs
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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6 Things You Should Know About Charles Krug, Napa’s First Commercial Winery
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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Inside the Bars of Printemps New York, the Hotly Anticipated French Department Store Opening Downtown
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, …
Wine 101: Fine Wine Part I: Rudy
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. …
The 10 Weirdest Craft Brewery Names in the U.S.
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. …