Since the post-WWII years, binge drinking PSAs have focused on the destruction of gender norms, not health issues, as a dominant risk factor. Shockingly, more than 50 years later, very…
With its windowless bars, secret recipes and tropically dressed devotees, tiki culture's escapist mindset is not unlike that of science fiction's.
According to PR Newswire, in a recent study by Mintel of drinkers between the ages of 24 and 35, "70% say that the brand of beer says a lot about you and 66%…
How accurate are the pop cultural notions of prison drinking? Jennifer Cacicio reports on just how much modern prisoners are drinking and how they're doing it.
Images of naked women and references to everything from ejaculation to getting a woman drunk and into bed have become increasingly common on French natural wine labels. Why? Rémy Charest…
The anonymous Twitter personality "Unicorn Somm" has made a career out of lambasting famous wine professionals.
What the evolution of Champagne's drinking vessel—from coupe to flute to wine glass—says, not only about how the wine has changed, but how we, the drinkers, have changed.
Burgundy has always seemed immune to luxury branding. But LVMH's recent purchase of a storied grand cru vineyard has many worried that the region is amidst a cultural reorganization that's…
A wine list isn’t the typical forum for addressing complex issues of history, heritage and culture. But at Brooklyn's Shalom Japan—where the list tracks the historic flow of the Jewish…
Vodka has become the contentious spirit at the center of a cocktail culture war. On one side: the vodka drinkers, derided as incurious rubes. On the other: the cocktail enthusiasts,…
