How to Pair Caribbean Dishes with Wine, According to Pros
On Caribbean and Caribbean-American tables, flavorful tamarind, coconut, curry, ginger, clove and dried black mushrooms harmonize with proteins like goat,...
Year: 2021
Six Veteran-Owned Breweries That Make Great Beer
There’s more to brewing than making good beer. A good beer needs balance; it needs distinction. Brewing good beer requires...
8 Reasons Why Virginia Is the East Coast’s Hottest Wine Region
This November on VinePair, we’re celebrating everything about American Wine. From up-and-coming regions and our favorite bottles, to the challenges...
Sweet, Bitter or Spiced: 7 Chocolate Drinks Around the World
While many of us know it in the form of bars, candies or baked goods, for most of its 5,000-year...
What Travel Taught Me About Wine
Call it beginner’s luck, but the first places I ever visited wineries were in Italy’s Piedmont region and the Napa...
Online Wine Pioneer Turns 25
The CEO of pioneering online wine auction site WineBid looks back on 25 years of changing wine tastes. A quarter...
The Zimbabwean Spirit That Connects Past, Present and Future
The only alcoholic beverage Audrey Madzima could drink when she was younger was Hwahwa (pronounced wa-wa), a drink made of...
The Surprisingly Long History of Arsenic in Wine
Arsenic is the ultimate tasteless and odorless killer. When you consider its relationship to wine, haunting, decades-old headlines like “POISON...
The Top 20 California Wines for Your Cellar (2021)
California is the largest wine-producing region in the United States. With fruity red wines, crisp whites and effervescent sparklers, it’s...
Bordeaux 2021: The Sound of Silence
There aren't many châteaux crowing about their wines in Bordeaux this year, but it still holds promise. There is an...
