A new Santa Monica bistro eliminates wine bottles in favor of wines served from casks
Expert tips for pairing White Zinfandel with Asian food.
Tips for making sense of a wine list: Cut through the clutter and choose a great wine.
Getting dizzy just looking at the fatter-than-a-phone-book list? Use these tips from Dorothy J. Gaiter, a coauthor of four guides on selecting, tasting, and pairing, to choose a bottle worth toasting.
A lot can go wrong when hosting a gathering. But if you follow our guide, we'll help you ensure there are plenty unique dishes with the ideal wine pairings.
Take the pressure out of navigating a restaurant’s wine collection
Yes I realise this is a first world problem, but that doesn't make it okay.
By Erica Nonni, Foodable Contributor How do successful restaurants train their staff to guide customers through their wine lists? Not just their wine directors with letters after their names, or their rising star sommeliers with Instagram audiences. Not just in very fine dining establishments whose
It takes a whole lot of shoe leather. Our wine columnist accompanied a winemaker and a sales rep as they lugged bottles around Manhattan and engaged with potential customers in the hope of making a sale.
When it comes to planning your wine list, many factors must work together to be sure it is well curated and unique to your restaurant.
One of the most important tasks of a wine director is creating and managing a restaurant's wine list. But what sets apart a just-ok list from a great one? How does a wine director go about choosing wines and making a great list? We asked sommeliers from around the country for their thoughts.
You'll never have to pick the restaurant's second-cheapest bottle again
There's a time and place for many options, but narrowing a wine list down to a few carefully selected bottles makes for a more enjoyable dining experience.
While you might be tempted to go with closing your eyes and pointing, a few restaurant wine list strategies should help you breeze through the options.
Are you looking to stand out from the crowd when it comes to your wine menu?
These arrogant “hipster somms” — terrorists with corkscrews — don’t exist.
Our guide to wine bottle size infographic breaks down the names, meanings and capacity of over a dozen large format wine bottle sizes from Magnum and up!
From red and white to sparkling and sweet, know when to finish an open bottle and when to cook with it.