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What Happened to Rudy Kurniawan? The Forger Who Started Making Fake Wine Again

True Crime : Fine Wine What Happened to Rudy Kurniawan? The Forger Who Started Making Fake Wine Again Some criminals disappear after prison. Some write books. And then there’s the...

Wine Blog

Wine Is Basically a Gym Bro With Better Vocabulary

Drinks Culture Wine Is Basically a Gym Bro With Better Vocabulary Lean. Muscular. Full-bodied. Tight. Flabby. Powerful. At some point you have to ask whether you’re tasting Cabernet or standing...

Wine Blog

Best Cheap Wine 2026 | 9 Bottles Under $25 Worth Buying

The Blind Tasting Best Cheap Wine Under $25: The Bottles That Punch Miles Above Their Price The best cheap wine under $25 does not have to taste cheap. I learned...

Wine Blog

BuzzBallz | Why Is Everyone Drinking Them in 2026?

The Anatomy of a Hit It looks like a cocktail that lost a fight with a Christmas bauble, sits at 15% ABV and costs about the same as the service...

Cocktail/Bourbon/Canned Cocktails/Gin/Tequila/Vodka/Whiskey

The 17 Best Canned Cocktails, Blind-Tasted Against the Real Thing

The 12×75 Can Test The 17 Best Canned Cocktails, Blind-Tasted Against the Real Thing In A Bar There’s only one honest way to judge a canned cocktail: not against another...

Bourbon/Canned Cocktails/Cocktail/Gin/Tequila/Vodka/Whiskey

The Best Vodka 2026: The Famous Bottles, the Bartender Bottles, and the Ones Reddit Won’t Shut Up About

We were trained to believe the best vodka tastes of nothing at all. That is the greatest marketing trick in the history of alcohol, and it is why ranking vodka...

Vodka

The Alcohol Industry Has a $3.8 Billion Can Problem

The business spent decades insisting serious booze comes in heavy glass with a cork and, ideally, a wooden box nobody asked for. Then the fastest-moving part of American spirits showed...

Bourbon/Champagne/Cocktail/Gin/Tequila

Gen Z Didn’t Stop Drinking. They Just Think Their Parents Drank Like Idiots.

We spent years declaring Gen Z the sober generation. Slight problem: they’re drinking, increasingly, they just don’t understand why their parents needed four pints, half a bottle of wine and...

Bourbon/Champagne/Cocktail/Gin/Non-Alcoholic Drinks/Tequila

Ozempic Isn’t Alcohol’s Biggest Problem. Wellness Culture Is.

Everyone wants to blame GLP-1 drugs for alcohol’s existential crisis. I think we’re looking at the wrong villain. Ozempic might make some people want fewer drinks. Wellness culture has made...

Bourbon/Champagne/Gin/Tequila/Wine Blog

Who Decided Champagne Was a Breakfast Drink?

Pour a glass at 8:30 on a Tuesday and someone asks if you’re alright. Add orange juice, wait till Sunday, and it’s £18 with Eggs Benedict. Champagne has somehow negotiated...

Champagne

What If Champagne Had a Transfer Window?

BREAKING: Krug signs Bollinger’s cellar master in a record Reims deal. Five-year contract. Undisclosed fee. Dosage still under discussion. None of it happened, of course. So why does it sound...

Champagne

Gin Wala Chai Spiced Gin Review | This Shouldn’t Work. It Really Does.

A magnificent bearded chai wala on the label, Assam tea in the still, and a spice tin’s worth of cardamom, ginger and black pepper inside. It sounds like a novelty....

Gin