What’s the first beverage you reach for on a hot summer’s day when you need something cool and refreshing?   For decades, rosé—a k a “Hamptons Gatorade”—has been hyped as the go-to drink of summer.  But as much as we love our blush-toned bottles and the various cocktails that they have spawned, we’ve all consumed our fair share of pink-hued...

For those immersed in the wine education world, the systematic approach to tasting (SAT), in which one evaluates the overall quality of a wine based on balance, length, intensity and complexity (or the BLIC scale), will be quite familiar. Now the cannabis industry, too, has a means for assessing tokes. “Cannabis is very nuanced and complicated,”...

At one time the largest American Viticultural Area (AVA) in the country, the Ohio River Valley spans parts of Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana, covering nearly 25,000 square miles. Like many AVAs in middle America, the Ohio River Valley is among the oldest growing regions in the United States. Over the past two centuries, wine production here...

There is perhaps no quicker, easier way to prove someone is insufferable in film or television than to portray them as a wine snob. The archetype of the pretentious, joyless wine aficionado may flash on our screens for a few moments as a throwaway joke or atmospheric detail. Such was the case with the new Netflix series The Gentlemen, when a...

Over the past two decades, the Arizona wine scene went from being as dry as a desert to a full-on flood. Now approaching 130 wineries—compared to just 12 in 1999—the Southwestern state’s tasting scene and its sudden explosion may go down as the fastest viticultural about-face in New World wine history.   “How often do you get to see wine regions...

Not everyone is a fan of odiferous cheese, but what if the reason for their funk is that they’re bathed in beer, bourbon or brandy? A washed-rind cheese is one brushed with brine or alcohol, which fosters the growth of Brevibacterium linens. The bacterium, which is usually also added to the wash, gives these cheeses their signature stink. (Fun...