How Does Wine Get Aromas and Flavors?
Newcomers to wine often find it confusing that wine rarely smells or tastes like grapes.
Most white wines smell more of tree fruits like apples or peaches, while red wines more often taste more like...
The Top Gin Trends in 2023
Over the centuries since its inception, gin has experienced a meteoric rise and fall. In the eighteenth century, it was branded "mother’s ruin” and "opium of the people,” and comprised the majority of the...
The 2023 Wine Growth Brands Awards: The Top Bottles
After some slight ups and downs during the first three years of the pandemic, total wine consumption took a dip in 2022. It decreased 1.1% last year to 344.1 million 9-liter cases, according to...
The 2023 Spirits Growth Brands Awards — What’s Driving Sales
The Growth Brands Awards are an annual program that determines and celebrates the fastest-growing and top-selling spirits, wines and beers in the U.S. These beverage alcohol brands fuel modern trends while maintaining consumer loyalty.
Which...
Podcast: Lost Lantern and Independent Bottling Whiskey
Independent bottling is common in Scotch, but not in American whiskey. Why? We ask Nora Ganley-Roper and Adam Polonski, founders of Lost Lantern, a fast-growing independent bottler of American whiskeys. They talk about the...
Our Wine Panel Reviews Spring and Summer Wines
For our next wine panel, we asked panelists to taste and rate spring and summer wines. These can be any style and from anywhere in the world, so long as they fit the warmer...
Sherry Pairing Suggestions
First, what exactly is sherry? It’s a fortified wine from southwest Spain, specifically the Jerez-Xeres-Sherry denominación de origen or D.O. “Fortified” means that alcohol has been added to preserve it, which was originally done so...
Interview: Dixon Dedman on Founding Kentucky Owl, 2X0
Dixon Dedman has quickly established a reputation for growing brands and blending whiskey.
With sourced product, he and a team revitalized his family’s pre-Prohibition whiskey brand, Kentucky Owl, in 2014. That company sold to Stoli...
Pairing Wine with a Brazilian Steak Dinner
Brazilian steakhouse restaurants are hot, especially the rodizio-style service of all-you-can-eat grilled meats. What wine to pair with such a protein-heavy feast? Hanah Rizzardo, manager of the beverage program at the authentic Brazilian steakhouse brand Galpao Gaucho, has...
Why Do We Decant Certain Wines?
Decanters have long been used to make wine look pretty, or to control its temperature, but improving flavor by decanting is a relatively recent phenomenon. It raises the question: Why do we decant certain...