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We Asked 16 Sommeliers: Which Red Wine Offers the Best Bang for Your Buck? (2026)

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VinePair Podcast Network

The VinePair Podcast

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The VinePair Podcast: Irish Whiskey Is Still Looking for Its Audience

The Buildout

The Buildout

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Wine 101

Wine 101

Wine 101: Chateau Montelena Part IV

Booze News

The Glendronach Releases Limited-Edition 56-Year-Old Whisky to Commemorate Bicentennial · Uncle Nearest Dispute Escalates as Judge Dismisses Co-Founder’s Bankruptcy Case; Lender Fight Continues · Elijah Craig Releases First 15-Year-Old Single-Barrel Bourbon at 108 Proof · UK Energy Secretary Urges Pubs to Serve Warmer Beer to Fight Rising Electricity Costs

With Reyes’s Expanded RNDC Buyout, America’s Biggest Beer Distributor Doubles Down on Not-Beer

Dave Infante

With Reyes’s Expanded RNDC Buyout, America’s Biggest Beer Distributor Doubles Down on Not-Beer

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Uncle Nearest Dispute Escalates as Judge Dismisses Co-Founder’s Bankruptcy Case; Lender Fight Continues

Uncle Nearest Dispute Escalates as Judge Dismisses Co-Founder’s Bankruptcy Case; Lender Fight Continues

‘Catastrophic’: U.S. Exports Drop by $357 Million After Canada’s Wine Ban

‘Catastrophic’: U.S. Exports Drop by $357 Million After Canada’s Wine Ban

Chicago’s Half Acre Beer Company and Maplewood Brewery Merge Amid Craft Consolidation Wave

Chicago’s Half Acre Beer Company and Maplewood Brewery Merge Amid Craft Consolidation Wave

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Where should you go for a Guinness this St. Patrick’s Day? We asked the experts, and there may or may not be a clear winner... ☘️🍻

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Where do Nashville bartenders drink when they’re off the clock? Nikolette Hurd of @pearldivernash is sharing her go-to spots around Music City 🎸 Presented by @tabx_app.

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Here are three of our favorite spots in we went in NYC this month. 🍷Hit the link in our bio for the full list of the cool, current, and flat-out excellent bars and restaurants you should visit right now.

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Our tour of Philly continues at the home of one of Philly’s most popular date night bars. @friday.saturday.sunday is a Rittenhouse institution in its own right, but @theloversbar is where Head Bartender Paul MacDonald shows off his exceptional creativity. Let’s find out where this tastemaker eats and drinks in the City of Brotherly Love.

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The ultimate Philly bar crawl! Here’s Justin Holden of Doom’s favorite local spots to eat and drink like a pro in the city of brotherly love 🦅 Presented by @tabx_app.

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Making his Broadway and Places Please debut, it’s Nicholas Braun! You probably know him as Cousin Greg in Succession, but you may have also caught him last year in Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries. Now he is starring alongside @jennyslate, Ray Romano, and Jake Shane (@passthatpuss) with music by @Lawrencetheband in All Out! Find out where the cast of All Out go to eat and drink in NYC.

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Going out in Nashville? From classics to under-the-radar picks, here are the bars Harrison Peaks of Bastion (@bastionnashville) recommends. Presented by @tabx_app.

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Where should you go after the Eagles win big in Philly? Jillian Moore, Bar Manager at My Loup knows, and she is sharing a comprehensive collection of the best places to eat and drink on this new episode of Bartender’s Guide to Philadelphia! 🦅🍻

Buying Guides

The 18 Best Malbecs for 2026

The 18 Best Malbecs for 2026

The 14 Best Irish Whiskeys for 2026

The 14 Best Irish Whiskeys for 2026

The 10 Best Bourbons for Old Fashioneds (2026)

The 10 Best Bourbons for Old Fashioneds (2026)

Where to Drink in NYC

March 2026

Spirits

From Ants to Escargots, Has the Stunt Cocktail Ingredient Gone Too Far?

From Ants to Escargots, Has the Stunt Cocktail Ingredient Gone Too Far?

How Buzzy Restaurant The Eighty Six Got Its Name — And It Isn’t Just the Address

How Buzzy Restaurant The Eighty Six Got Its Name — And It Isn’t Just the Address

The 16 Most Important Irish Whiskeys of the 21st Century So Far

The 16 Most Important Irish Whiskeys of the 21st Century So Far

The Buildout Podcast: Death & Co.

The Buildout Podcast: Death & Co.

Why American Distillers Are Thriving in Ireland

7 Cocktails That Should Get the Freezer Martini Treatment

We Asked

We Asked 10 Bartenders: What’s the Best New Bourbon That’s Earned a Spot on Your Bar? (2026)

What Will a Global Trade Meltdown Mean For Bourbon’s Protected Status?

Wine

8 of the Best Pinot Noirs From Alsace

Good Wines

8 of the Best Pinot Noirs From Alsace

The VinePair Podcast: The Wine World’s Worst Cliché

The VinePair Podcast: The Wine World’s Worst Cliché

The 18 Best Wine Bars in New York City (2026)

The 18 Best Wine Bars in New York City (2026)

Wine 101: Chateau Montelena Part III

Wine 101: Chateau Montelena Part III

We Asked

We Asked 17 Sommeliers: Which White Wine Offers the Best Bang for Your Buck? (2026)

15 of the Best Wine Bar Snacks in NYC

The VinePair Podcast: Could Wine Really Wholly Abandon Wholesale?

10 of Burgundy’s Most Legendary Vintages

Beer

This London Pub Reportedly Sells the Most Guinness in the World

This London Pub Reportedly Sells the Most Guinness in the World

We Asked 9 Bartenders: What’s the Best Guinness Pour in Boston?

We Asked

We Asked 9 Bartenders: What’s the Best Guinness Pour in Boston?

We Asked 14 Bartenders: What’s the Best Guinness Pour in Chicago?

We Asked

We Asked 14 Bartenders: What’s the Best Guinness Pour in Chicago?

Remembering Guinness Time, the Iconic Beer’s Employees-Only Magazine

Remembering Guinness Time, the Iconic Beer’s Employees-Only Magazine

How Soso’s Makes Its Towering Guinness-Spiked Ice Cream Sundae

This Napa Brewery Uses the Same Grain as the World’s First Pilsner

Hop Take

Everybody Got Burned in BrewDog’s Sell-Off. Will Tilray, Too?

15 of the Weirdest Liquor Laws in the U.S.