Kate Dingwall
Food, wine, and spirits writer. Wine person.
I was born in Canada (eh), schooled in Georgia (y'all), and spent a large chunk of my adult life in Brooklyn. I'm currently living in Toronto with my black cat.
I'm a food and beverage business contributor at Forbes.com, the drinks writer at Toronto Life, a columnist at The Whiskey Wash, and a regular contributor to MAXIM, Liquor.com, and The Spruce.
My work also regularly appears in Elle CA, The Spruce, Liquor.com, Toronto Life (print + online), Eater, MAXIM Canada's 100 Best Restaurants (print + online), Porter Magazine, Wine Enthusiast, Foodism (print + online), VinePair, DuJour, CultureTrip and The Bourbon Review (print). I started my career as an editor at FLARE Magazine. A few years back, I finished my Masters of Brand Management program with a thesis on innovation in the American wine world.
I'm working on my WSET III. Full clips can be found below. Recent work on my Muckrack.
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Forbes.com
America's farm distillers are facing new hurdles
2020 is highlighting new wine regions
How the digital world is transforming the wine industry
Inside the shifting plates of fine wine distribution
How can you tell if your tequila has additives?
Wine investing? There's an app for that
Is the automat the future of the restaurant industry?
What will the post-Covid world look like for restaurant workers?
The new guard of spirits marketers are on Instagram
As social distancing continues, drinkers are becoming their own bartenders
Trump's tariff wars are crippling small distillers
Investment app Rally is releasing shares of the world's rarest wines
The three-tier system is crippling America's small distillers. One man is trying to help
Status spirits are outpacing the rest of the industry
Glassware virtuoso Kurt Zalto's next chapter
How the Fat Jewish built a canned wine empire
Non-alcoholic spirits are popping up everywhere. But the category still has some lessons to learn
Nomadica is carving a natural niche in the canned wine category
Big sales, no agave: a look at 2020 in the agave industry
Travis Scott has launched a hard seltzer
Maxim
Are we ready for the non-alcoholic beer craze?
How to build out a killer home bar
A guide to American-made amaro
A guide to sustainably-made spirits
Recipes: Spirited halloween cocktails
The best bottles to drink this Thanksgiving
Holiday wines, according to model Grace Mahary
Toronto Life
A can-by-can review of White Claw
Toronto's best pop-up bottle shops (also in print!)
What beers brewers are drinking in isolation
Five DIY cocktails for a stay at home summer
How to make Blais Couturier's aperol spritz
How to make Marta Ess' New Orleans cocktail
Boozy gifts to get you through 2020
Kelsey Ramage: If I hear the word 'pivot' one more time i'm going to scream
Bottle bonanza: meet Toronto's best bottle shops
Liquor.com
Is the pop up here to stay because it just plain works?
A guide to buying vintage glassware
A guide to hosting thanksgiving
The best gifts for vodka lovers
Bartenders are getting on the hard seltzer bandwagon
Recipe: Anarchist's Pop Shoppe
How to use high proof spirits in cocktails
Vinepair
Gerard Bertrand makes hedonistic wine
Trash Tiki bringing sustainable spirits to permanent digs
Wine Enthusiast
Everything you need to know about bitters
Elle
The best hard seltzers to sip this summer
How to get wine delivered to your home
The Spruce
DuJour
A weekend guide to Savannah, Georgia
Room Request! Uniworld's Mekong River Cruise
A weekend guide to Beaufort, South Carolina
Room Request! Halepuna, Hawaii
A weekend guide to Vejer, Spain
Scotland is the luxury trip you'd never expect
The Whiskey Wash
Canada's craft whisky industry is growing up
The Bourbon Review
Cover Story: Fawn Weaver is rewriting history the way it should be told
HERE Magazine
8 Restaurants that flex Chicago's culinary creativity
Tales of the Cocktail
Bootleggers and Bourbon: Then and Now in Savannah's drinking history
Canada's 100 Best Restaurants
Meet Toronto's new fermentation-focused bar
What's new in Canada's hotel scene
Culture Trip
Touring Lyon with Daniel Boulud
Diet Ghosts are the Doyennes of Toronto's drag scene
Izumi is reinterpreting Canada's sake scene
Canada's foraged foods are reviving a national identity
A guide to Lyon's architecture history
A deep dive into Lyon's silk making history
Spending a weekend in Prince Edward County
Canada's immigration story, as told through food
AskMen.com
How to drink Cognac like a connoisseur
A gentleman's guide to drinking and appreciating Scotch
A guide to non-alcoholic beers