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Pastis and tapenade are a perfect pairing for the warm days ahead. You just don't know it yet, but trust me, you'll love it.

Mar 15

Well, it would be the perfect recipe to pair with good-value light red wines, which have also still not gone viral despite my best efforts.

Mar 17

Oh, look: Another entrenched writer at a legacy publication burped out 1,200 words on their "skepticism" of natural wine. Ho hum.

Mar 24

What is the perfect cocktail and why is it the Perfect Manhattan with rye whiskey? Along with recipes for four other renditions.

Mar 10

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How do we ever really get to know wine? Sometimes, maybe not knowing is okay.

Alexandra McInnis

Mar 7

Unfortunately, most of it is not, and that's one reason why we suffer through so much poor wine prose.

Mar 3

Visiting Lisbon's new wave of bars and restaurants rekindled my love affair with Portugal's obscure grapes.

Mar 1

On the Carthusian monks' decision to limit production of their famed liqueur and what it says about quality and scale in our soul-crushing modern world.

Feb 24

As Portugal cracks down on hordes of visitors, what does a shot of cherry liqueur say about what's "touristy" and what's not?

Feb 22

The letdown of dining somewhere between "cheap eats" and highbrow in an age of inflated prices and expectations. Plus, wines that remind me of the…

Alexandra McInnis

Feb 17

What a football game translated into French can tell us about explaining foreign concepts to normal people.

Feb 14

After a week of talking about the "crisis" in the wine business, maybe what we need is a ready-to-drink cocktail in a can.

Feb 3

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EVERYDAY DRINKING

A wide world of wine, spirits, travel, and culture from the author of Godforsaken Grapes and Boozehound.

My Books

Godforsaken Grapes A Slightly Tipsy Journey Through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine

Boozehound On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits

The Cider Revival Dispatches from the Orchard

EVERYDAY DRINKING

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