Drink This

☀️  13 wines for summer.

🤫  Under-the-radar California wines you should be collecting.

🏛️  How familiar are you with the new classics of Scotch? 

🇺🇲  15 whiskies for Independence Day. 

😎  Picpoul: the “white wine of the moment.”

Get Out There

🫥  Delightfully under-visited European wine regions. 

🏖️  How to go to Nice.

🍺  The best dive bar in every state. 

🚂  A look at the new Orient Express.

The Business

👑  The world’s newest wine sells out in “minutes.”

🥃  Some interesting facts about the world’s best-selling bourbon. 

🦄  A deep dive with the founders of America’s largest whiskey auction house (Unicorn!).

Boooo

🤔  How much can you actually trust that wine label?

👎  1,700 layoffs?

☘️  A “production pause” at Diageo’s distillery in Ireland. 

Woooo!

🇪🇸  Rioja (the official wine region, at least) turns 100. 

🧠  Jefferson’s master blender.

🚛  A truck carrying 10,000 bottles of whiskey tipped over and didn’t spill a drop.

The Opinion Page

🪪  “There’s a moment every night when the crowd blurs, the bass thickens, and I stop being a person and start being a presence.”  What it’s like to do security at bars and clubs. 

🇫🇷  “What is it about French wine?”

🎨  “This is a man hell-bent on getting through a bottle of what looks like Rhine wine.” What great painters are saying when they make a self portrait with wine.

🙊  What’s the biggest challenge for the wine industry? “I think the most pressing challenge, honestly, is for us to stop complaining.’

 

Thanks for reading – see you next week!