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Spiced Red Wine and Coke
Recipes
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mulled Wine
Easy
Recipes
This heady mulled wine recipe is perfect for the holiday season—or any time you’re looking for something fragrant and cozy.
Siesta
Recipes
Revive yourself for the night ahead with this vivid tequila, grapefruit, and Campari cocktail.
French 75
Recipes
The French 75 is that rare creature of a cocktail: elegant enough to make it feel as if you’re in Paris on New Year’s Eve but supremely simple to assemble.
Lumberjack
Quick
Recipes
Ideal for starting the night, this cozy concoction blends apple cider with a hint of burnt orange and rosemary.
Best Wine Storage
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Wine Spritzer
Recipes
A good rule of thumb, regardless of batch size, is three parts wine to one part club soda.
Cosmopolitan
Quick
Recipes
We will avoid all Sex and the City references here, but the fact remains: This cocktail is classic for a reason.
We Launched a Wine Shop for People Who Love to Eat
Drinks
These highly curated bottles are asking to be poured at your next dinner party.

Joseph Hernandez

The 15 Best Wine Gifts
Shopping
All the best stemware, wine keys, and other thoughtful accessories for the budding sommelier in your life.

Oset Babür-Winter

These Non-Alcoholic ‘Wines’ Don’t Taste Like the Real Thing—but I Love Them All the Same
Shopping
Acid League’s funky, complex blends are made for my fancy stemware.

Emma Orlow

The Wine Store in Barcelona Where Wine Nerds Just Want to Share the Love

Alex Beggs

We'd Get on a Plane to PDX for Dana Frank's New Natural Wine Fair
Lifestyle
The bar owner believes that wine should be less intimidating, more fun, and easier to understand.

Lizzie Noonan

Go to The Riddler. Get Your Wine Glass Filled to the Brim.
Restaurants
The “Joan” is an off-menu inside joke, and the best wine deal in town. 

Alex Beggs

Sommelier Tests 13 Wine Bottle Openers
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Sommelier André Hueston Mack is back for another episode of World of Wine, this time testing 13 gadgets designed to make opening a bottle of wine at home much easier.
Sommelier Breaks Down How to Order Wine Like a Pro
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Feeling overwhelmed by wine lists at restaurants? Sommelier André Hueston Mack returns to Bon Appétit to teach you how to confidently order wine like a pro. Whether you’re a casual drinker or just starting to explore the world of wine, André breaks down everything you need to know–from decoding tricky wine lists to mastering the perfect wine-tasting etiquette.
Every Wine Tool a Sommelier Uses
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Sommelier André Hueston Mack returns to demonstrate tools designed for opening, preparing, tasting, and preserving wine. From familiar staples you'd find anywhere wine is served to the specialized tools preferred by professionals, André breaks it all down in the engaging, approachable style he's known for.

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Sommelier Tests 10 Wine Gadgets
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Sommelier André Hueston Mack is back for another episode of World of Wine, this time testing 10 widely-available gadgets designed to enhance your experience when opening, serving, and storing wine.
How A Sommelier Designs The Wine List For A Restaurant
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André Hueston Mack returns with the next episode of World of Wine, this time taking you step-by-step through his approach when designing a restaurant wine list as a professional sommelier.
Sommelier Pairs Wine With 5 Classic Pasta Dishes
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Sommelier André Hueston Mack returns for another edition of World of Wine, today sampling five classic pasta dishes then pairing each with a complementary wine.