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How to Drink on Public Transit
Even when commuting, the train can be a civilized way to travel. Avoiding the traffic of the roadways, it allows for the (discreet) imbibing of an adult beverage. The days of rolling raucous bar cars are largely behind us, but there are ways to enjoy
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The One And Only
There’s something trying about growing up in close proximity to New York City. It forces you to use an incomparable town as the benchmark for all the others. And how do you think that competition nets out? Typically, a forlorn look will come over a n
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Jacqueline Strum EDITOR & PUBLISHER EXECUTIVE EDITOR John Capone TASTING DIRECTOR Anna-Christina Cabrales MANAGING EDITOR, DIGITAL Rachel Tepper Paley MANAGING EDITOR, PRINT Stacy Briscoe CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, FOOD Nils Bernstein SENIOR WEB PRODUCER S
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Sips And Snaps Around The Globe
ProWein 2024 took place March 10-12 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and celebrated its 30th anniversary this year. Since the beginning, Düsseldorf has been ProWein’s home and is one of the world’s largest and most relevant wine and spirits trade fairs. It we
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Natural Wine, I Love You But You Are Bringing Me Down
It is agreed and understood that: 1. james will be advertized ONLY as: “james murphy dj set (dfa/ lcd soundsystem).” no “lcd soundsystem” anywhere but in the stated parenthetical position. It just confuses people. 2. the management agrees to provide
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Street life
There are few foods as revered and argued over as the NYC bagel. Sure, Montreal may have its own version—a pillowy ring of warm dough—but when most people close their eyes and think of a bagel, they picture the dense, pock-marked puck with a hole in
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Urban Renewal
The city that never sleeps has long been an epicenter of wine imbibing. Its association with winemaking, however, is less obvious. More pastoral regions like the Finger Lakes, Long Island and Hudson Valley have earned New York a ranking of third-larg
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Say Cheese
Photographer Marcos Alberti first turned his camera on his friends, documenting how their countenances changed after one, two and three glasses of wine, in his native Brazil with the Three Glasses Later project. He did it again in New York City, team
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Bemelmans Bar Martini
For those seeking a taste of old New York, Bemelmans Bar, opened in 1947, is the place. Within the Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side, the walls are still covered with murals painted by artist-author Ludwig Bemelmans, who wrote the Madeline series
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Get Salty
With so much impact for so little effort (and without having to schlep to Russ & Daughters), gravlax deserves a place in your entertaining arsenal. Lox and gravlax both refer to salt-cured (not smoked) salmon, but the latter usually adds sugar and he
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Cayuga
Talk to winemakers and grape growers, and they can be quite persnickety when describing the grapes they work with. More often than not, it’s their irritations with the grapes that draw the most attention—late to ripen, susceptible to disease and so f
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Peak Plateau
“When we started planting grapes here in 1972, everyone thought we were insane,” says Anthony Aellen, president and executive winemaker of Linganore Winecellars. Aellen and his family were instrumental in forming Maryland’s first American Viticultura
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DRIVER & HAMMER
In the hands of a skilled barrelmaker, these tools might be the difference between an airtight oak barrel and one that weeps wine. The driver fits under the hoop (metal rings that hold the staves together), waiting for the hammer strike to move it ti
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No Longer A Bollywood Baddie
I was stunned when my relatives opened a bottle of wine at the dinner table during a recent visit to New Delhi. It was a Sula Vineyards Syrah from the Nashik region in India. The family had opened it just for me, the wino visiting from the U.S., and
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Dancing In The Street
Rip out this page and stuff it in your pocket for when you go to the wine shop next, or just search wineenthusiast.com/ratings. Our reviewers have determined these wines are exceptionally ageworthy. 99 Pinea 2018 PSOUL Single Vineyard Single Barrel T
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Welcome to New York
Blundstone boots might be just as at home in Brooklyn as they are in the field or cellar, but our nascent grapevine making the journey through subways on the cover and trains, ferries and taxi cabs throughout this issue, is definitely somewhat out of
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I Tried To Sell My ‘Dusty’ Bottles—here’s What Happened
WANT TO GIVE YOU THE LIQUOR I FOUND IN CABINET, the text from my mother-in-law read. This is how I came to be in possession of four unopened, pristine-condition 1980s-era bottles: two blended Scotch whiskeys and two VSOP Cognacs. All four were good,
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A New York Minute with ALICE FEIRING
“I haven’t done laundry in 30 years,” says Alice Feiring as we descend the steps of her local laundromat to drop her bag. “I wouldn’t know how to use a washing machine.” It’s a brisk, sunny day and one of natural wine’s most longstanding cheerleaders
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Sips And The city
The most important meal of the day doesn’t even have to include wine Wouldn’t you know it? Kara Newman, who reviews spirits for the magazine, recommends a coffee place that measures simple syrup with jiggers. Everyman Espresso, in a small space in th
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SPIRIT of NYC
Everyone knows the Manhattan, the granddaddy of classic cocktails—but that’s just the beginning. The five boroughs of New York City and the people who live in them offer ample cocktail inspiration. As you’ll see, these borough namesakes, past and pre
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Byob somms
Four of the City’s most accomplished wine professionals shake off the late winter chill to gather for dinner at Wu’s Wonton King on East Broadway, where Chinatown rubs against the Lower Side. “Chinese food is so much fun to pair with wine. But, being
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Cuisine DE QUEENS
The borough of Queens, New York offers some of the most diverse dining options in the country. From Chengdu-worthy noodles and dumplings to Bangladeshi, Ghanaian, Ecuadorian, Polish, Nepalese and Filipino staples, the borough has long exemplified New
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New York State Of Wine
FOR ADDITIONAL RATINGS AND REVIEWS, VISIT WINEENTHUSIAST.COM/RATINGS Writer-at-large Christina Pickard tastes New York, Australia, New Zealand and England; Jeff Porter covers Piedmont and northern Italy. Christina Pickard: Call it chutzpah. Or resour
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The Wine Enthusiast Buying Guide
The Buying Guide includes ratings and reviews of new-release and selected older beverage alcohol products evaluated by Wine Enthusiast magazine’s editors and other qualified tasters. Anna-Christina Cabrales: Burgundy, Rhône Valley Cody Wexler: Proven
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New York
95 Hermann J. Wiemer 2022 Magdalena Vineyard Riesling (Seneca Lake). Still a spring chicken, this top Riesling—if drunk now—needs a few good swirls in the glass before releasing delicate orange citrus, jasmine and honeysuckle aromas from the clutch o
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Chile
93 Domus Aurea 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon (Maipo Valley). Round and smooth, this is a delicious Cabernet from Peñalolen in the Maipo Valley and starts with a nose of herbs followed by a dash of paprika. The earthy palate shows the region’s classic eucal
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Portugal
95 Quinta do Crasto 2019 Vinha Maria Teresa (Douro). At least 54 varieties of old vines are in this single-vineyard wine. The wine has spice, vanilla, leather and mushroom aromas. It is a powerful wine that has great potential, rich tannins and conce
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Germany
98 Robert Weil 2022 Kiedrich Gräfenberg Trockenbeerenauslese Riesling (Rheingau). The thick and syrupy texture makes you want to pour this over your crêpes—and you probably wouldn’t regret it. However, this is pure excellence in the glass, with an ea
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Faux Sure
As I stepped beyond the “New York-style vestibule” covered with familiar hexagon-shaped subway tile and took a seat at the long wooden bar, I felt a cozy familiarity. I scanned the drink menu: There was a Penicillin, created at NYC’s Attaboy, and the
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Spirits
Normandy’s signature brandy doesn’t fall far from the tree. A visit to Normandy, the region where France’s apple-based (and sometimes pear-based) brandy is made, yielded this indelible memory: contented cows parked beneath an apple tree, happily munc

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