Cocktails in Ziploc Bags Are a Thing
Who needs fancy coupe glasses when you can drink cocktails out of a plastic bag? CLASS Magazine explores the kitschy trend popping up around London in a nod to goldfish-in-a-bag…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Learn How to Saber Champagne at Home
Over on bonappetit.com, Pearl & Ash's Wine Director, Patrick Cappiello demos the hottest new wine trick: sabering. There's a big sword and several shots of a decapitated bottle overflowing in…
- story: Talia Baiocchi
Drink All of the Beers with No Hangover?
Apparently science is finally catching up with alcohol consumption. British scientist David Nutt is currently seeking investment for a synthetic beer made with a substance that he claims can mimic…
- story: Talia Baiocchi
A Hungover Bear Goes to Work
McSweeney's illustrator-in-residence, Ali Fitzgerald, lays her Hungover Bear and Friends column on us this week with a mopey looking Bear rafting his way to work. We hope your commute was…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Look at This ’70s Bar, Bleu Cheese Cocktail Included
The speakeasy has been done. So has the tiki bar. And the cowboy saloon. Now is the moment for the disco era's second coming—in all of its Long Island Iced…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Image Is Everything in the New York Wine Market
In her column for London's Financial Times, wine writer Jancis Robinson finds New York's wine scene to be "faddish," citing the city's apparent disregard for the wines of the Southern…
- story: Talia Baiocchi
Wine Counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan May Plead Insanity
Rudy Kurniawan, a California wine collector who is to be tried next month for attempts to counterfeit over $1.3 million in fine wine, may plead insanity. According to Bloomberg, the…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Prague’s Absinthe Scene Gets a Makeover
In Prague, where there were once rumors of wormwood-induced phantasms and pyrotechnic flair, there is now a budding scene of absinthe connoisseurship. The Wall Street Journal explores the bar scene's…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Partying by Age, a Guide
Ever attuned to the twenty-something urbanista set, Cosmopolitan documents the stages of partying, by age. From covert basement beer drinking at sweet 16 to the "green juice and yoga [counteracting] the…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
See Where America’s Chefs Drink
Serious Drinks got serious and quizzed over 30 chefs from some of America's most lauded restaurants including New York's Harold Dieterle of The Marrow (partial to West Village staple, Daddy-O)…
- story: Leslie Pariseau