Knowing she wouldn’t be able to find the natural wines she’d enjoyed drinking in France’s Loire Valley in the late 1990s back in New York, Jenny Lefcourt did as most…
When Ms. Franky Marshall entered the craft cocktail scene, she knew she was all-in. “There was no looking back. I got caught up in it, and I still am,” she…
When Neal Rosenthal took over his father’s Upper East Side pharmacy-turned-liquor store in 1977, he couldn’t have predicted that it would mark the start of his decades-long career in wine.…
“My name alone doesn’t signify a particular style of drinks,” says Nico de Soto. “And you can’t really relate all of my bars to each other, either.” The multi hyphenate…
When Domaine LA opened its doors in 2009, owner Jill Bernheimer knew she wanted to do something different with her wine shop. Zeroing in on natural wines well before that…
“Inventory is a nightmare,” says Stephanie Andrews, who recently binned her 600th amaro for Billy Sunday’s 300-bottle library—among one of the largest in the country. “But I’m kind of a…
“I'm not really sure any drink would describe who I am exactly,” says Al Sotack. A self-described “bar dork,” Sotack began barbacking after college in 2004 and worked various bartending…
Long before sour beer could be found at nearly every craft brewery, Lauren Woods Limbach was experimenting with French-oak foeders and wild yeast—since 1998 to be exact. From those early…
If you ask Marco Zappia what he does for a living, he’ll tell you: “The first part of my day is spent compulsively macerating and cultivating gnarly microbial growth. The…
For Eryn Reece, drink-making wasn't always about precise pours of sotol and Angelica root-rinsed glasses. When she first made the jump from waitressing as a teen to working behind the…