GEAR ESSENTIALS: Pairing Wine and Cheese June 25, 2020 Last month, the government of France called upon its citizens to eat more cheese. With millions under confinement, French cheesemakers …
GEAR Bringing It Home: The Luggage You Need for Your Bottles June 18, 2020 There will be travel again. With any luck, sooner than we think—a circumstance which, for an oenotourist like me, raises …
GEAR The New Coravin—Everything You’d Hoped It Would Be June 02, 2020 You’re likely holding on to some pretty special bottles of wine. And you likely have toyed with the idea of …
GEAR Top Shelf May 28, 2020 The famed James Beard Foundation Awards gala was among the notable casualties in the food and drink world this spring; …
GEAR Pack Up Your Pleasures May 22, 2020 Dads and other lovers of whiskey can be hard to buy for. If there’s a bottle they want, they already …
GEAR Half Full? Half Empty? Entirely Gorgeous. May 21, 2020 It may be a fair measure of a glass’s greatness if it looks inviting when empty. If it makes you …
GEAR An Ode to the Swizzle Stick May 14, 2020 There’s a good bit of drinking in the Netflix series, The Crown. Nothing excessive of course. A finger or two …
GEAR The Compleat Imbiber, A Long-Running Anthology of the Drinking Life May 06, 2020 When it comes to cocktail books, we’re definitely living in a glass-half-full world. Whether you’re looking for a little history …
GEAR A Top Bartender’s Quarantine Reading List April 26, 2020 One of the first places I’m planning to get to, when we can go out again, is Ward III. That’s …
GEAR Making the Cut (and Beating the Spread) April 17, 2020 So we’ve been having cocktail hour. Every night. A little ceremony to look forward to near the end of …
GEAR The Durand Makes Shattered Corks a Thing of The Past April 13, 2020 It was Christmas. I had one gift on my wish list—a special little trinket that comes in …
GEAR Do You Feel Thirsty? Well—Do Ya, Punk? April 08, 2020 Like me, you undoubtedly have friends whose liquor cabinets are fuller than yours. And like me, you sometimes …
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