The Spirit World

Snooth, the world’s largest wine site, has launched its Food & Wine pairings application for My Yahoo!, the most popular personalized start page with more than 40 million worldwide monthly visitors.
My Yahoo! users are now able to peruse thousands of recipes from leading publications such as Food & Wine, Cooking Light, Real Simple and Health, among […]

Wine & Spirits Magazine will host its First Annual Top of the List Event, Tuesday, June 2nd.
The event benefits NY / NJ Baykeeper and is based on the W&S 20th Annual Restaurant Poll: Over 100 wineries will convene to pour the most popular wines served in America’s best restaurants, paired with specialties from some of […]

Wine & Spirits Magazine  will host its First Annual New York Event, Top of the List , Tuesday, June 2nd.  Over 100 wineries will pour the top wines served in America’s best restaurants, paired with specialties from some of NYC’s most esteemed chefs.
The tasting happens at City Winery-the new live music space that holds the […]

More than 50 wineries will participate in the highly anticipated food and wine festival, Taste of Vail.  Over four days in April, wine connoisseurs and budding aficionados will taste new varietals and learn from the winemakers themselves.  Numerous educational seminars, entertaining dinners and the après ski wine tasting event will allow engaging interaction with the […]

I don’t subscribe but the latest issue of the Journal of Wine Economics (Vol. 3, No. 2) just released (http://www.wine-economics.org/journal%22%3Ewww.wine-economics.org/journal%3C/a) has a worrying report, worrying for both the integrity of wine judges and for the drinker who relies on such expertise -The lead article is by Robert T. Hodgson, who analyzes the reliability of wine […]

Constellation Brands, (major brands in the company’s portfolio include Corona, Black Velvet, SVEDKA Vodka, Robert Mondavi, Clos du Bois, Ravenswood, Blackstone, Hardys, Banrock Station, Nobilo, Kim Crawford, Inniskillin, Jackson-Triggs and Arbor Mist.) has “underscored its ongoing commitment to sustainable business practises and corporate social responsibility” with the installation of the world’s largest winery solar energy […]

After a full meal of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and everything else that makes up our holiday table traditions, we don’t really need to eat another bite. But, sooner or later, most of us crave something sweet to end our meal. This year, instead of being seduced by the siren call of those perennial favorites […]

I recently attended the first annual North American Wine Bloggers’ Conference, held at the Flamingo Hotel in Sonoma, CA. Primarily developed by the OpenWine Consortium and Zephyr Wine Adventures, the conference featured a wide variety of activities, many of which differered from your usual conference fare. As a first forray into this arena, the conference […]

You may already be aware, but following the great success of the last Twitter Tasting (details on Spittoon) - Bin Ends Wine (www.binendswine.com) hosts the next Twitter Taste Live this Thursday - Sept. 18, 7pm ET! 
The wines being featured are 4 wines from the prominent Sonoma winery Michel-Schlumberger: Chardonnay “La Brume” 2006, Syrah 2005, Merlot 2004 and Cabernet […]

If you ever wanted to know what it feels like to be a Greek god and hundreds of women are feeding you grapes, now you can. Just take a sip of
 
Bacchae
1 1/2 oz of Barsol Acholado Pisco
1/4 oz of Vya Sweet Vermouth
1/8 oz of Suze
1/4 tsp of Marie Brizard Parfait Amour
1/4 tsp of Grenadine

Stir for […]