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DrinksThe Best Wines to Drink on Valentine’s Day, According to Experts
When it comes to picking out a wine for dinner, you’ll want something that encourages conversation, not contemplation.
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DrinksA New Bourbon Whiskey Named After a Golf Course Is One of the Best Things I Drank Last Month
A mountain of booze passes through the Gear Patrol office every month.
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Food & Drink5 Wines That Just Get Better With Time, According to a Master Somm
Forget checks and fancy cookware.
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Food & DrinkBuy Better Wine With This Sommelier-Approved Algorithm
Master Sommelier-approved wines, minus the abstract flavor descriptors.
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DrinksEverything You Wanted to Know about the Effects of Oak Aging on Wine
Think you hate oaked Chardonnay? Or love the toasty notes that oak imparts?
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DrinksHow Climate Affects Wine Grapes
Growing Pinot Noir in Napa Valley is like growing apples in Puerto Rico.
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DrinksThe 10 Best Wineries of New Zealand
New Zealand’s 11 wine regions are growing in popularity; wine is now the country’s sixth-largest export.
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DrinksTalking Wine with New Zealand’s Only Master Sommelier
Cameron Douglas is a Kiwi who knows good wine.
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DrinksTo Understand Wine, Start with the Grape
How does wine get its color, texture, sugar, acid and — uh — other things?
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Food & DrinkThe Best Boxed Wines of 2014
We conducted a blind tasting of 16 of the best available boxed wine (8 white, 8 red). A few tasted like our worst box wine memories of yore: fermented juice boxes gone bad.
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DrinksNew York’s Finger Lakes Wine Finds Its Way
At long last, New York’s Finger Lakes wine region is gaining recognition, both nationally and abroad.
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HomeWine Preservation’s Silver Bullet
Through crafty engineering, some physics, and one medically precise needle, the Coravin 1000 uncorks a world of wine possibilities (without pulling the cork).
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DrinksTasting Notes: Taylor Fladgate 1964 Single Harvest
Taylor Fladgate, one of the council of elders in the Port world, released a 50-year-old tawny port in 2014.
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DrinksMore Mature With Age
I come from a family of beer drinkers, firmly rooted in the blue-collar heritage of my grandfather’s construction and carpentry business. My father likes to say that it was his own skill at unskilled labor that paid his way through college.
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DrinksWhite Wine? Just Can It
We got our hands on five canned white wines to find out if they’re a clever packaging solution or just an excuse to drink more white wine.
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DrinksA Learned Man’s Guide to Rose
Rosé season is upon us, and while we generally advocate for consumption of pink wine year round, the same warm weather that begs for draping oneself in white linen and opening too many shirt buttons demands the freshness of a crisp, vibrant rosé.
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DrinksMulled Wine, Three Ways
Mulled wine is the perfect drink for the holiday season: just pleasant and alcoholic enough to warm everyone up, but not like handing out rounds of high-octane Manhattans that could turn Thanksgiving dinner into an episode worthy of Jenny Jones. We tapped the expertise of Jane Elkins, former and current barkeep at some of New York City’s best cocktail haunts, for three variations of mulled wine, each rooted in tradition and brushed up with ingenuity from behind her bar.