You can drink smarter by drinking better, cheaper, healthier, funner (probably not faster, though). My latest DrinkSMART award goes to Tim Laird, for his simple cocktail bases that an ordinary human can make at home. Tim Laird, America’s C.E.O., makes holiday cocktails http://www.b-fonline.com/lairdvideo/index.html
After tasting the DuBoeuf Beaujolais Nouveau earlier and enjoying the light fruitiness of the wine, I was surprised to return to the covered glass a few hours later and find the flavors had all but disappeared. But I did not despair. I got out a wine gadget: the Vinturi Wine Aerator — the little one [...]
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Suddenly one October afternoon I fell in love with Albariño, the bright and lovely Spanish white wine. I had visited the home of Albariño before; it’s a charming, ancient land of rolling hills touched by Atlantic breezes in the northwest corner of Spain. Yet, here I was in New York city, at the annual Great [...]
You might know all about wine cork, but it made a real difference to me to stand in a cork forest in Portugal recently. And to see the whole process of wine corks being made. (Courtesy of Amorim, which is the largest cork producer in the largest cork-producing company in the world.) Cork oaks are [...]
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