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Editorial director for Food & Wine and Liquor. Not active on Twitter, find my email if you need me.
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Announcing the 2022 Liquor Awards

Announcing the 2022 Liquor Awards

Liquor.com — Liquor.com is thrilled to introduce the Liquor Awards. Our aim is to recognize the drinks-industry professionals and bars-both longstanding and up-and-coming-who are contributing to the advancement of the world of cocktails, spirits, and hospitality. We believe these winners and nominees represent the people and places that exemplify the best of the American drinks industry.
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The Eight Essential Scotch Whisky Bottles for Your Home Bar

The Eight Essential Scotch Whisky Bottles for Your Home Bar

Liquor.com — Scotch whisky experts share their top picks, including single malts from Bruichladdich and Glen Scotia and a blended whisky from Compass Box.
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Liquor Legend, Liquor Awards 2022: Dale DeGroff

Liquor Legend, Liquor Awards 2022: Dale DeGroff

Liquor.com — It's not an understatement to say modern bartending wouldn't exist in its current form without Dale DeGroff. His work as head bartender and manager of the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center from 1987 to 1999 led to a resurgence of classic cocktails and technique that persists today and rehabilitated the image of bartenders as skilled craftspeople and cultural ambassadors.
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The Gimlet Is One of History's Best Cocktails-Here's the Recipe To Make It Right

The Gimlet Is One of History's Best Cocktails-Here's the Recipe To Make It Right

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — The gimlet is a cocktail based on gin and lime juice that dates to the 1800s, putting its age in company with classics like the Old Fashioned or the martini. The drink's origins are murky but tend to follow the tale of sailors in the British navy adding liquor to mandated rations of lemon and lime juice meant to combat scurvy.
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Bartender Basics: What Are Top Shelf Liquors, And Does It Matter?

Bartender Basics: What Are Top Shelf Liquors, And Does It Matter?

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — The liquor world is full of a dizzying number of terms meant to denote quality. Most are unregulated buzzwords created by marketing teams, some vague but with well-intended origins (small batch, reserve, hand crafted, limited edition) and others completely meaningless (premium, super-premium, ultra-premium, premium-premium).
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The Rusty Nail Cocktail Is a Forgotten Classic That Deserves the Spotlight

The Rusty Nail Cocktail Is a Forgotten Classic That Deserves the Spotlight

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — The Rusty Nail cocktail is a Scotch throwback to the post-Prohibition era of the 1930s. In nearly a century since its creation, the drink's popularity has lurched from one of the world's most in-demand drinks to mostly forgotten relic.
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Classic Old Fashioned Recipe

Classic Old Fashioned Recipe

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — The Old Fashioned is one of the earliest whiskey cocktails in modern record, thought to be developed in the early 1800s. Though countless modern variations have popped up in the centuries since, the classic Old Fashioned is understood as a simple combination of whiskey (usually bourbon or rye), sugar and bitters.
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What's the Difference Between ABV and Proof?

What's the Difference Between ABV and Proof?

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — Whether wine, beer, spirit, cider or hard seltzer, every alcoholic beverage label is required to show how much alcohol it contains. What can be confusing is the multitude of ways it can be written. The two main methods for indicating the alcoholic content of a beverage are alcohol-by-volume (abv) and proof.
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An Appletini Recipe Worth Reviving

An Appletini Recipe Worth Reviving

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — In the pantheon of maligned cocktails, from the Cosmo to the Bahama Mama, no combination of ingredients may be as scorned in modern drinking culture as the dreaded apple martini, aka the appletini.
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Why We're Still Drinking Gin & Tonics After 170+ Years

Why We're Still Drinking Gin & Tonics After 170+ Years

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — For well over a century, the gin & tonic has reigned as one of the most popular cocktails in the world. A 2016 study by the Wine and Spirit Trade Association found that in Britain alone, gin sales comprised 40 million bottles a year, or enough to create 1.12 billion G&Ts annually.
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Everyone Should Know How to Make a Gin Fizz

Everyone Should Know How to Make a Gin Fizz

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — The gin fizz is one of the better-known variations of a broader cocktail category, the fizz. The term largely indicates a sour drink, or one that incorporates lemon or lime juice for citric acid, and is then topped with carbonated water. Many fizzes also incorporate egg whites.
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The Enduring Legacy of the White Russian Cocktail

The Enduring Legacy of the White Russian Cocktail

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — The White Russian, a combination of vodka, coffee liqueur and cream, is comfort food in a glass. Warming in the winter, refreshing like a cold milkshake on a summer day, there's a reason this cocktail has endured through decades of shifts in cocktail tastes and pop culture references.
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Bartender Basics: Time to Spring Clean Your Bar Cart

Bartender Basics: Time to Spring Clean Your Bar Cart

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — Along with closets and the kitchen drawer full of spare batteries and orphaned keys, the bar cart is one of the areas of your home that collects the most junk. Unlike wine, which is understood to have a short shelf life once popped, many believe that opened liquors and other bar ingredients can kept indefinitely.
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A Simple, DIY Ginger Beer Recipe

A Simple, DIY Ginger Beer Recipe

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — A precursor to the ginger ale that lines soda aisles today, ginger beer is believed to have been first created in Great Britain around the mid-1700s. Its name comes from the fermentation process that gives the drink its carbonation, though it's actually more akin to cider production.
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Bartender Basics: How to Make Non-alcoholic Cocktails on a Budget

Bartender Basics: How to Make Non-alcoholic Cocktails on a Budget

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — Terms like "mocktail" make non-alcoholic drinks sound complicated and bartender-y. The truth is, whether you've added a dash of honey and lemon to a cup of tea, or mixed cranberry and seltzer over ice, you've created a non-alcoholic cocktail using the same basic principles that go into their alcoholic counterparts.
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Bartender Basics: Why Is Vermouth in So Many Cocktails?

Bartender Basics: Why Is Vermouth in So Many Cocktails?

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — If you experiment with cocktails often, there are a few ingredients you'll see over and over. Particularly common are vermouth and bitters. They form the composition of countless classic cocktails from the Manhattan to the Alaska, the Bobby Burns, Adonis or Rob Roy.
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Bartender Basics: What Really Happens to Raw Eggs in Cocktails?

Bartender Basics: What Really Happens to Raw Eggs in Cocktails?

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — Despite being a common inclusion in drinks dating back to at least the Middle Ages, cocktails that involve raw eggs can evoke fascination or revulsion in modern drinkers. Salmonella scares in the 1980s and '90s caused much of the globe to reevaluate their relationship with eggs-particularly raw eggs.
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Bartender Basics: A Drinker's Guide to Bar Terms

Bartender Basics: A Drinker's Guide to Bar Terms

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — Bars and restaurants have an array of terminology expansive enough to fill dictionaries. Most are jargon strictly used by those in the industry and carry little utility for customers. However, some terms may be handy for the average drinker, whether to place the proper order, better understand any follow-up questions from the bartender or accurately follow a recipe while making cocktails at home.
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How to Stir a Cocktail Correctly, According to a Bartender

How to Stir a Cocktail Correctly, According to a Bartender

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — Stirred or shaken? Not many bars will ever actually ask you this question. Recipes are usually quite clear about this. But these two ways to mix a drink are still cornerstones of bartending. Recently, we showed you a simple catch-all bartending formula to create a cocktail in the sour family of drinks-those that are shaken and include lemon or lime juice.
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Facing Uncertain Future, the Hospitality Industry Seeks Support

Facing Uncertain Future, the Hospitality Industry Seeks Support

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — The economic effects of the novel coronavirus outbreak have progressed from initial shock to a grim new reality where hundreds of thousands in the U.S. have already filed for unemployment, with the number expected to quickly grow into the millions.
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Wine Enthusiast Podcast: Wine and Wellness | Wine Enthusiast Magazine

Wine Enthusiast Podcast: Wine and Wellness | Wine Enthusiast Magazine

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — If you’re among those looking to detox after December’s revelries, you’re in luck, because more and more top-notch bartenders are taking their savvy with spirits and applying it to non-alcoholic libations. We sent associate digital editor, Dylan Garret, to the bar at Peaches Shrimp & Crab, a contemporary American seafood eatery in Brooklyn. He spoke with bartender, Chris Rue, about what makes for a killer mocktail.
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Wine Enthusiast Podcast: Getting Frisky Over Whiskey | Wine Enthusiast Magazine

Wine Enthusiast Podcast: Getting Frisky Over Whiskey | Wine Enthusiast Magazine

Wine Enthusiast Magazine — What should wine lovers look for in a Bourbon? Is Scotch really that intimidating? WE Editors Kara Newman and Dylan Garret pull up to the bar to talk to two experts—Flavien Desoblin, owner of Brandy Library and Copper & Oak, and New York Times spirits writer Clay Risen—about America's favorite brown spirit, whiskey.
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