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Forbes.

America's farm distillers are facing new hurdles

2020 is highlighting new wine regions

Inside the shifting plates of fine wine distribution

Wine investing? There's an app for that

How the digital world is transforming the wine industry

The new guard of spirits marketers are on Instagra

Trump's tariff wars are crippling small distillers

The three-tier system is crippling America's small distillers. One man is trying to help

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

This Canadian couple crafts excellent small batch bitters

How the Fat Jewish built a canned wine empire

How Craft Brewers Are Embracing Sustainability

This San Diego Distillery Makes Vodka From Unwanted Beer

How Two Restaurant Groups Have Navigated The Ghost Kitchen Market

This carbon-negative calvados poses A new way to think (and drink) about sustainability

Where's the functional beverage category headed?

& more

Food & Wine.

Brace yourself for the jell-o revolution

The boilermaker will outlive us all

Everything you need to know About vermouth

The three martini lunch can come back now

Cynar makes drinking artichokes appealing

The savory cocktail is dominating menus

Lillet is the secret ingredient to every good vesper martini

Cocchi Americano is a bartender hit for a reason

It's time to give rum the spotlight it deserves

Sloe gin isn't technically a gin

Underberg is proof that good things come in small bottles

We're obsessed with this smokey, vegetal amaro

15 of the best places to drink tequila

If you love tequila, try bacanora

AI generated cocktails are here

It's time to give rum the spotlight it deserves

Wine Enthusiast.

Everything you need to know about bitters

Amidst wildfires, pinot noir emerges as savior

As climate change drives temperatures up, winemakers climb higher

What is bottled-in-bond and why should I care?

InsideHook.

Once reserved for vineyard workers, Piquette is your drink of summer

Why you should be drinking wine made on volcanos

The strange rise, fall, and rebirth of Beaujolais Nouveau

What's next for non-alc wine?

Pet-nats are Champagne's funkier cousins. Are they here to stay?

Why do you hate Chardonnay?

An expert picks the perfect wines for Thanksgiving dinner

You should be drinking Patrick Cappiello's lo-fi, high-value wines

Las Jaras is celebrity wine done right

Seriously, should you be drinking more spumante?

Meet Can Sumoi, your new favorite table wine

Our eight favorite bottles of wine right now

Inside the world's first Queer wine festival

Bandol is France's hidden wine region

Two wines that make a case for skipping booze

Bigger is better: you should be drinking more magnums

Enter Cerasuolo, a cozy rose suited for fall

These lab-grown grapes could be the future of wine

7 essential wine and spicy food pairings

Tarpon cellars wine tastes like an Italian holiday

Avoiding natural wine? An expert wants you to reconsider

Mira makes wildly innovative wines

Try these excellent Duoro wines

These lab grown grapes could be the future of American wine

We're in the golden age of boxed wine

Chilled wine is the drink of the summer

Elle.

The best hard seltzers to sip this summer

The best Canadian-made rose

How to get wine delivered to your home

The Toronto Star.

Brewing for the greener good (print + online)

Welcome to aperitivo season

You deserve a perfect cocktail

This Prince Edward County producer is making forward-thinking cider

How to host a festive get together with drinks for non-imbibers

Fizzy, fermented, and kinda funky: hard kombucha

Toronto's latest soft drinks are craft brewed, local --- and far from your average sugar bombs

Tourist traps? Zero. Hidden gems? Seven. Here's where you must go in Rome.
In search of serenity in Hawaii

What are the very best bars in the world?

Add these amazing museums to your travel list

Top chef Edward Lee's guide to Louisville

What to eat, shop, and do in Hollywood

Bordeaux travel for gourmands

Miami's art scene is scorching

An insider's guide to Charleston

A weekend guide to Fort Erie

A secret pocket of wine county worth exploring

Finding serenity in the Hawaii of Europe

Seven world wineries that will make you feel drunk on life

Maxim.

Irish whiskey 101

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

Irish whisky 101

Embrace the cold this winter with cold-weather beers

Inside Canada's whisky renaissance

Valentine's Day wines, recommended by female sommeliers

Two Former Pro Athletes Launch a Must-Have Hydration Product

Why You Should Be Drinking Cristalino Tequila-And The Best Bottles To Savor Right Now

The best light reds for grilling season

How do you tell if your booze truly green? 

The best canned wine

The best white wines for cool fall days

The best bubbly wine for any and every occasion

SommTV

The mystical, magical Priorat wine region

Don't underestimate the wildly diverse wines of Abruzzo

How to pair wine with spicy food

Inside the complicated world of celebrity spirits

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

Toronto's best CafeTO patios

Specialty wine subscriptions are booming right now

Toronto's bars are finally allowed to sell bottled cocktails. Here are our favorites

Piquette is the perfect thirst-quenching, low-ABV wine for drinking outside somewhere

These are Toronto's best covered patios

Ten Ontario breweries worth the road trip

It's the summer of hard seltzers

Brothers' Chris White on starting fresh in a pandemic

Toronto's best canned and bottled cocktails

Toronto's best new patios

The best non-alcoholic drinks to get you through dry january

Inside the Grape Witches' chic new event space

A look inside History, Drake's hyped new concert venue

Fourteen cannabis-infused sippers

How a chance encounter led one couple to open farm-to-table dining destinations in both hemispheres

Everything there is to drink at Civil Pours

Toronto bars are giving sangria a glow-up

These Toronto-made canned cocktails are perfect for parks

Liquor.

Are pop-ups saving bars?

Best gifts for bourbon lovers

How to ferment drink ingredients

Is the pop up here to stay because it just plain works?

A guide to buying vintage glassware

Supernova Ballroom Review

What's in a martini glass

A guide to whiskey glasses

A guide to hosting thanksgiving

The best gifts for vodka lovers

Best gifts for gin lovers

Bartenders are getting on the hard seltzer bandwagon

Recipe: Ghost Claw

Recipe: Anarchist's Pop Shoppe

How to use high proof spirits in cocktails

Recipe: Woodson & Ford

Recipe: Mai Kinda Gai

Jomaree Pinkard on building a brand while advocating for diversity

Uncle Nearest Founder Fawn Weaver Aims to Diversify the Distilling Scene

The 12 Best Whiskey Books of 2021

Recipe: Peaches, Bourbon and Beer—What’s Not to Love About This Julep?

Recipe: This Shandy Is Extra Beer-y and Extra Boozy

Add Depth to Your Drinks with Beer Syrups. Pro Bartenders Tell How.

Recipe: This Bourbon Sour Incorporates an Ale-and-Sherry Syrup

Recipe: This Traditional Beer and Sherry Drink Will Warm Up a Crowd

Recipe: Cava and Agave Spirits Combine in This Complex Cocktail

Turn Your Leftover Wine Into a Delicious Cocktail Component

How to Use High-Proof Spirits in Cocktails

How and Why to Use Kombucha in Cocktails

These are the Best Collins Glasses Available

Bryant Orozoco is building an all-Mexican bar program

It's time for bars to start carrying NA wine and spirits

A guide to shochu

Recipe: make this shochu old fashioned

Recipe: a serrano-infused shochu bloody mary

How and why to use shochu in cocktails

The New Rules for Creating Spicy Cocktails

What to know about adding vintage spirits to your bar

Winterize your beer cocktails

How to use white port in your cocktails

How to use arak in your cocktails

El Fili Daiquiri

VinePair.

Gerard Bertrand makes hedonistic wine

Trash Tiki bringing sustainable spirits to permanent digs

The Spruce.

How to buy Champagne Glasses

A Guide to the Best Vodka

A Guide to the Best Rum

The Best Bartending Books

A Guide to the Best Gins

The Best Brandy Bottles

The Best Non-Alcoholic Drinks Available

How to buy Bar Olives

A guide to Dry Vermouths

The 8 Best Coffee Liqueurs available

The 7 Best Triple Secs in 2021

A guide to bottled water

The Best Cheap Rums

The Best Tonic Water

I'm a wine snob and I use these ultra-cheap wine glasses more than any other

Do I need a wine decanter?

This paring knife is my new favorite bar tool

DuJour.

A weekend guide to Savannah, Georgia

Room Request! Uniworld's Mekong River Cruise

A weekend guide to Beaufort, South Carolina

A weekend guide to Curacao

Room Request! Halepuna, Hawaii

A weekend guide to Vejer, Spain

The best eco-friendly hotels

Scotland is the luxury trip you'd never expect

The Whiskey Wash.

Canada's craft whisky industry is growing up

A deep dive into BC's craft whisky bubble

Column: Alberta Is Doing Canadian Rye Really, Really Well

Foodism

The history of the Caesar cocktail

Toronto chefs are on a mission to source ethical foie gras

Eater. 

How Savannah's Best Restaurant Survived a hurricane

The Bourbon Review.

Cover Story: Fawn Weaver is rewriting history the way it should be told

Here.

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.

Meet Toronto's new fermentation-focused bar

How to travel, ethically

The Jaffa Hotel

What's new in Canada's hotel scene

The Royal Champagne

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

48 hours in Cannes

A 24-hour guide to Lyon

Spending a weekend in Prince Edward County

The best restaurants in Lyon

Canada's immigration story, as told through food

AskMen.

Hack the Airplane minibar

The best Bloody Mary recipes

How to drink Cognac like a connoisseur

A gentleman's guide to drinking and appreciating Scotch

A guide to non-alcoholic beers

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