When Wine Pros Lose Smell and Taste to COVID-19
After being temporarily robbed of career-essential senses, sommeliers and wine journalists reflect on how the experience changed them
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How savvy off-premise operators have adapted their approach to inventory management mid-pandemic
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How beverage and restaurant workers are using their well-honed hospitality skills to provide transformative relief efforts
Rebuilding Your Restaurant’s Wine Program
To minimize purchasing spend and energy, beverage directors are streamlining programs, rethinking pricing, and taking advantage of deep deals
Harlem’s Karl Franz Williams on Making the Industry More Inclusive
How the 67 Orange Street owner found long-term success in a developing neighborhood
Meet the New Generation of Non-Alcoholic Spirits
How a growing number of producers are creating a range of innovative ethanol-free spirits that aim to achieve flavor and textural complexity sans ethanol
What is Natural Wine?
A new definition aims to bring clarity and consensus to the polarizing category, yet it may have the opposite effect
Birmingham’s Jose Medina Camacho on Thriving Despite COVID-19 Restrictions
Jose Medina Camacho shares how Automatic Seafood & Oysters is thriving despite restrictions by pivoting with escapist cocktail kits, Sunday specials, and one killer mango cocktail recipe
How Crowler Cans are Saving Breweries
Sales of the large-format beer cans are skyrocketing—a lifeline for businesses now and in the future
Nashville’s Julia Jaksic on Making Cocktails To-Go a Success
The owner of Cafe Roze shares her winning strategies for take-out cocktails and a recipe for her unusual Alpine liqueur-infused tequila cocktail
How Cash-Strapped Restaurants Can Turn Their Wine Cellars into Profit
Pros’ best advice for strategizing high-end wine sales during a downturn
San Francisco’s Alfie Spears Makes the Grade in Advanced Mixology
Alfie Spears of San Francisco’s Trick Dog shares his unconventional cocktail development process and a recipe for his latest gin-based concoction
