Food & Drink

Who doesn’t love a good value when it comes to wine? While trade publications such as the “State of the U.S. Wine Industry” report on the price-conscious purchasing habits of younger consumers—$15 for a bottle is the sweet spot—there’s no reason to relegate these bottles to the young and thrifty. Here are a few that

Boisson, a leading non-alcoholic retailer in the United States, has received a $5 million bridge investment led by Pernod Ricard’s Convivialite Ventures. “Boisson plays a key role in the fast-growing non-alcoholic category, by discovering and curating the best non-alcoholic brands for consumers’,” shares Brandon Yahn, Partner at Convivialité Ventures. “The company helps the leading NA

Start with these three building blocks for building your wine foundation We’ve all see a parody of the wine snob: an erudite personage, probably fancily dressed, holding the stemware just so and making declarations of numerous aromas and flavors—many of which are unfamiliar or improbable. River rock? (connoting minerality) Cat pee? (yes!) Barnyard? (Yes again

Big, bold, bright, beneath the ground or brazenly above, here’s where you can read about some of the world’s best cellars. I recently visited what’s said to be the largest private wine cellar on the east coast, a place I had toured several years ago and now, with a bit more wine knowledge under my

Mergers in the food and beverage industry have been going strong, with big F& B companies showing no shortage in their appetite for billion-dollar deals. J.M. Smucker Co. recently announced it would expand its family of brands significantly by acquiring Hostess for $5.6 billion, following a string of other acquisitions. And the urge to merge

Where celebrity-endorsed companies are concerned, little collaborations have made more sense than Gillian Anderson launching a libido-boosting soft drink. G Spot, which Anderson co-founded and launched in May 2023, started off with three naturally-boosted flavors (Soothe, Lift and Protect), but has just added Arouse to the mix in partnership with the launch of season 4

It’s the first day of fall and here I am, still drinking rosé! Don’t tell me you’ve consigned pink wine to the summer months, because that would be wrong. With so many regions across the globe making rosés from different varieties, there’s a good diversity of styles—some more structured and with deeper fruit expressions that

The New York World Wine and Spirits Competition held its annual judging in Brooklyn last month and its organizers have been slowly pouring out the results ever since. A few weeks back, whiskey lovers were shocked to learn that 15 Stars—a relatively obscure craft producer out of Kentucky—had beaten out far bigger brands from the

The Brewers Association, the trade association representing America’s small and independent brewers, has announced the 263 breweries that won the 303 medals at the 2023 Great American Beer Festival, the largest beer competition in America. The annual competition is open to America’s craft breweries. The winners are announced on the last day of the annual

It was a pleasant early-autumn afternoon at Firriato Winery’s Cavanera Estate on the north-east slopes of Mount Etna. Cumulus clouds linger in the bright blue sky as the volcano’s familiar coronet of smoke dances upward into the atmosphere. Built atop an ancient lava flow, the Cavanera Etna estate captures the volcano’s essence through Vitus vinifera

There are not very many Americans still doing the farming that feeds our citizens and many others around the world. The legacy of the Homestead Act of 1862 persists in that many of those farmers still own land from those 160 acre grants that have been passed down for generations, but particularly for the “broad

Remember the days when entrepreneurs opened either a separate restaurant, a bakery or gourmet shop and that was suffice to generate a profit. The trend these days is hyphenated businesses, combining several specialties, where multiple revenues flow to generate enough profit to sustain business. Welcome to Pasta Corner, which opened in midtown Manhattan, in proximity

Blood alcohol detox functional beverage, Safety Shot (Nasdaq: SHOT), set to launch in Q4 2023, is attracting widespread attention as the first patented drink that promises to reduce blood alcohol content and improve central nervous system activity, motor cortex function and cognition in less than an hour. Blood alcohol poisoning occurs when alcohol is consumed

Sometimes it’s a mystery as to why certain people are ‘bitten by the wine bug,’ and others are not. But for a group of 12 Hispanic winemakers in Oregon, there is a strong common bond of growing grapes and making wine to reflect the beauty of the land, as well as to provide a legacy

“It all started here,” said Bob Gunter, president and CEO of Kōloa Rum Company. “It” being Hawaiʻi’s sugarcane industry and “here” being Old Kōloa Town on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i. Kōloa Mill opened here in 1835 and was the first successful sugar mill in the state to run continuously until 1998. As America’s largest

Natural Products Expo East is ridding off into the sunset after trading across the U.S. East Coast for nearly four decades. Organizer New Hope Network is now pioneering a new annual event called “Newtopia Now” to help emerging CPG brands maximize their exposure to retail buyers and investors. The last Expo East will occur this

Gin, the timeless spirit that is the cornerstone of a whole host of classic cocktails, has been on a tear in the new millennium. That’s a boon to lovers of the martini, negroni, Singapore Sling, and a whole slew of other elegant cocktails who saw flavored vodkas and blended drinks rule the roost during much

Though French organizations have been establishing winery operations in Oregon for a number of years now, it is rare that a German wine business is attracted to the state that is renowned for its pinot noir wines. However, Ernie Loosen, the famous German winemaker known globally for Loosen Riesling, decided that the Willamette Valley of

Sierra Nevada Brewing has launched the “Still The One” Friends Reunion Contest with possibly the best prize a beer lover could dream of. One lucky craft beer fan will reunite with five of their friends at Sierra Nevada Brewing’s brewery in Mills River just outside Asheville, North Carolina to brew a custom-made beer. Sierra Nevada

London is not lacking on the Italian food front. Separate from the pizza, pasta and ice cream traders that have taken over the country (and, dare say, the world), the UK’s capital has over 2000 restaurants dedicated to Italian cuisine alone. And Bocconcino, it seems, has quietly risen through the ranks. First opened in 2014