British Rum Making in the Eighteenth Century In the Eighteenth Century, rum making was an art, not a science. An art that relied on some rule-of...

For most of us, knowing to simply say that we like a wine when we taste it is about as far as we go in using words to describe wine. But for a...

Non è un bel momento per lo Champagne in Italia con i consumi in pratica dimezzati rispetto a pochi anni fa. I dati che leggiamo sui numeri del...

As I mentioned in my last post: Last week I participated in a seminar at Tales of the Cocktail entitled The Science of Shaking. The panel was...

Nicolas Feuillatte, the French entrepreneur behind the Champagne of the same name, has died at the age of 88.   A man who made his fortune in...

With Ports from the controversial split vintage declarations of 1991 and 1992 nearing maturity, Richard Mayson considers which shippers made the...

A bartender on why more bartenders need to know what's behind the bar   One of the reasons I love being a bartender is because it affords me...

It has recently been challenged, to the resounding shock of voices from the cocktail corner, that the bartenders favorite 21st century Italian...

We’re proud to say that entries to our fine competition are now open. This year will be our fourth competition and for this one we’ve decided to...