When the VinePair team isn’t busy working at HQ, we’re in the field doing what we do best: scoping out the best cocktails, wine, and beer in the five boroughs. Here are the cool, current, and flat-out excellent drinks you should try in New York right now, according to our editors. April has been a …
As the back-and-forth over the Trump administration’s proposed tariffs continues to escalate, the U.S. beverage industry anxiously waits for the next bit of bad news to unfold. Despite President Trump calling his recent “Liberation Day” speech America’s “declaration of economic independence,” it didn’t make industry pros feel any more confident about the future of the …
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There’s a lot of care that goes into crafting a cocktail menu, from hours spent doing research and development behind the bar to countless taste tests. And more often than not, one can trust that they’re going to be served a thoughtful, well-balanced drink the bartender is proud of. It’s for that reason exactly that …
Spring is here, and like clockwork, rosé has reentered the collective consciousness. Although we’ve briefly touched upon the pink-hued wine here on “Wine 101” in the past, we’ve never taken the time to recount its origins — until now. Truth be told, historians haven’t pinned down an exact date that indicates when the style was …
First documented in the late 1800’s, the East India Cocktail combines Cognac, curaçao, fruit syrup, bitters, and Maraschino liqueur. The drink has been tweaked, misattributed, and misunderstood for over a century, with the fruit syrup presenting one of biggest lingering question marks. What should said fruit be? How are we making the syrup? And what …
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