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Spiced Red Wine and Coke
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This easy cocktail is budget booze’s highest calling. Cheap wine gets a makeover thanks to lemon, lots of ginger, and the caramelly complexity of cola.
10 Wine Gifts for Winos
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Culture
Do you know someone who loves wine? Yeah, that's what we thought.
10 of My Favorite Wines of 2018
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Culture
I went through a lot of bottles. These are the ones I can‘t stop thinking about.
31 Sparkling Wine Cocktails for Champagne, Cava, and Prosecco
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Recipes
Toast to a new year, a new you, or just another Tuesday with lychee punch, a low-ABV kombucha spritz, or a bubbly sbagliato.
Best Wine Storage
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Wine Spritzer
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A good rule of thumb, regardless of batch size, is three parts wine to one part club soda.
Mulled Wine
Easy
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This heady mulled wine recipe is perfect for the holiday season—or any time you’re looking for something fragrant and cozy.
Champagne Cocktail
Quick
Recipes
Elevate your classic glass of bubbly simply by adding a bit of sugar and a few dashes of bitters. The long spiral of zest makes any drink look fancy.
Easy Does It, Baby
Easy
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We use sparkling rosé wine here mostly for its color. Any decent bubbly will work as a substitute.
Dirty Martini Spritz
Easy
Recipes
Attention, martini drinkers and spritz drinkers: Please form a single line.
Not Every 'Champagne' Is Champagne: What You Need to Know
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Culture
Tips for pouring the perfect glass of Champagne, from BA's Wine Insider David Lynch
French 75
Recipes
Crisp, citrusy, and bubbly, this classic gin-and-Champagne cocktail is elegant enough for a party and easy enough to make in 5 minutes.
My Best Day In California's Wine Country Looks Like This
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Where to eat
Vintner's Daughter founder and Napa native April Gargiulo lets us in on her local spots.
Arinato
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I created the Arinato to be a lighter stirred drink and to celebrate the more delicate sides of mezcal. I use the 80-proof Ilegal Joven; paired with floral fortified wines, it makes for an easy-sipper that proves how elegant mezcal can be.
Charmed and Dangerous
Recipes
This riff off the classic sazerac features wine instead of rye whiskey.
Sparkling Grapefruit Cocktail
Recipes
This beautiful, bubbly summertime drink is fancy enough to enjoy on your yacht… or inner tube!
Art of Choke
Recipes
Bartender Kyle Davidson created this bitter and fresh Cynar cocktail in 2008 at The Violet Hour.
Siesta
Recipes
Revive yourself for the night ahead with this vivid tequila, grapefruit, and Campari cocktail.
Algonquin Bar Punch
Your Very Own Vinegar
Sage Brown Derby
Quick
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“I love grapefruit cocktails year-round, but the rye and sage make this one especially wintry.” —Alison Roman, senior associate food editor