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How Craft Brewers Found Themselves on the Wrong End of Gentrification

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VinePair's Best New Bartender Competition 2025

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VinePair's Best New Bartender Competition 2025

VinePair Podcast Network

The VinePair Podcast

The VinePair Podcast

The VinePair Podcast: The Martini Is Evolving Before Our Eyes

Cocktail College

Cocktail College

The Cocktail College Podcast: The Rusty Nail

Taplines

Taplines

Taplines: The Future of America’s Beer Industry

Wine 101

Wine 101

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Booze News

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Prestige Alcohol Brands Are Difficult to Build — and All Too Easy to Ruin

John Sumners

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President Trump Lashes Back at EU With Threat of 200% Tariff on Wine, Champagne, and Spirits

President Trump Lashes Back at EU With Threat of 200% Tariff on Wine, Champagne, and Spirits

EU Responds to Trump With 50% Tariff on Already Reeling American Whiskey Sector

EU Responds to Trump With 50% Tariff on Already Reeling American Whiskey Sector

Constellation Reportedly Exiting Wine Business in the Face of Tariffs on Its Mexican Beer Mega-Brands

Constellation Reportedly Exiting Wine Business in the Face of Tariffs on Its Mexican Beer Mega-Brands

Cocktail Recipes

High Violet

Sound & Fury

Belltown Goddxssxs

Belltown Goddxssxs

Scrimshaw

Better Living

Bunny Slope Dropout

Bunny Slope Dropout

Buying Guides

The 15 Best Irish Whiskeys for 2025

The 15 Best Irish Whiskeys for 2025

Every Trader Joe’s Beer, Tasted and Ranked (2025)

Every Trader Joe’s Beer, Tasted and Ranked (2025)

The 26 Best Red Blends for 2025

The 26 Best Red Blends for 2025

Spirits

Inside the Bars of Printemps New York, the Hotly Anticipated French Luxury Retailer Opening Downtown

Inside the Bars of Printemps New York, the Hotly Anticipated French Luxury Retailer Opening Downtown

We Asked 21 Bartenders: What’s the Best Vodka for Mixing Cocktails?

We Asked

We Asked 21 Bartenders: What’s the Best Vodka for Mixing Cocktails?

The VinePair Podcast: Cocktail Bars Are Becoming Restaurants, With Mixed Results

The VinePair Podcast: Cocktail Bars Are Becoming Restaurants, With Mixed Results

Why Hangovers Cause Anxiety, According to a Medical Pro

Why Hangovers Cause Anxiety, According to a Medical Pro

Stop Asking Your Bartender to Surprise You

The Irish Coffee at Red Hook’s New Pitt’s Is an Ode to a Fort Defiance Classic

The Cocktail College Podcast: The Hotel Nacional

What to Drink in NYC Right Now (March 2025)

Wine

8 of the Best Pinot Noirs From Australia

Good Wines

8 of the Best Pinot Noirs From Australia

The Best Red Wines for Chilling [Infographic]

The Best Red Wines for Chilling [Infographic]

The 5 Best Sherry Cocktails

The 5 Best Sherry Cocktails

The Most Underrated Wines for 2025, According to 20 Wine Pros

We Asked

The Most Underrated Wines for 2025, According to 20 Wine Pros

Wine 101: Matching Wine and Food: A Reflective History

Need To Know

8 Things You Need to Know About Champagne Charles Heidsieck and Its Legendary Founder ‘Champagne Charlie’

Thinking Differently: Neuorodivergent Bartenders Thrive Behind the Stick

The VinePair Podcast: The Reasons Wine Service Sucks Right Now

Beer

The 10 Weirdest Craft Brewery Names in the U.S.

The 10 Weirdest Craft Brewery Names in the U.S.

We Asked 11 Beer Pros: Which Beer Do You Wish People Ordered More? (2025)

We Asked

We Asked 11 Beer Pros: Which Beer Do You Wish People Ordered More? (2025)

What Happened to Magic Hat #9?

What Happened to Magic Hat #9?

In a Controversial Brewery’s Retreat, a Cautionary Tale About Embracing the Culture War

Hop Take

In a Controversial Brewery’s Retreat, a Cautionary Tale About Embracing the Culture War

Hand-Pulled Heady Topper Is the Ultimate Bucket-List Beer Experience

Before 2011, the Russian Government Treated Beer as a ‘Soft Drink’

Hop Take

How Monster Managed to Vaporize Half of CANarchy’s Value in Just Three Years

Remembering Ripple: The ‘Wine’ That Walked So FMBs Could Fly