Did I miss something? Why make the average wine consumer feel less confident just because you think oysters and Muscadet are a match made in heaven, but they're happy with oysters and Pinot?
Let's face it, it's really difficult to make your wine stand out on retailer's shelves unless you go one of two routes.
Isn't there something about springtime (what with its theme of rebirth), that just makes you want to try something new? You know, decide to finally ...
How we resent that overfilling, over pouring, over frequenting of the table and then the eye contact -- "another bottle, sir?"
In the first part of this installment, I talked about the bar and suggested a patron's guide to civilized behavior. While there are many more examples...
MANHATTAN -- The St. Patrick's Day hangover still isn't over for some east siders. After a particularly potent night of debauchery during this year's...
Drinking often gets a bad rap. The demon drink is often portrayed in an unflattering light, particularly in Lindsay Lohan's DUI mug shot. However, w...
Of all the socio-cultural "by-products" we've become accustomed to in a Facebook, Twitter and reality TV world, few touch our lives as regularly as th...
Many great writers have also been great drinkers and their advice around this habit will either want to make you keep going or will stop you forever. But do try not to spit out your scotch laughing at the wit.
Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart once opined that pornography is tough to define, but "I know it when I see it." I feel the same way about dive ba...
A three-year-old British child is thought to be England's youngest-ever alcoholic after being recently treated for addiction at a West Midlands hospit...
In the spirit of the liquored up holiday, I compiled a collection of Irish-themed foods that are yummy treats that also will prevent or ease hangovers.
Newsflash: Submerging your feet in alcohol doesn't get you intoxicated. It only helps you dodge the "Less Filling/Tastes Great" debate. Sorry, Denmark...
Even though St. Patty's Day is arguably a holiday with no age cut-off, there is a societal expiration date for public booze-fests. How old is too old for early morning beer drinking and day-long public intoxication?
You almost hate to hear it: Making your own bitters at home? Yeah, it's actually not that difficult. Because there's no excuse now -- and you star...
Back in the '80s, Keystone Light commercials focused on a curious affliction: bitter-beer face. The faces of folks who sipped so-called "bitter beer...
The deadly combination of hormones and alcohol doesn't have to claim your child this spring break. Julie Barsamian from CookTravel.Net offers six tips for how to make spring break safe and fun for your kids.
My divorce took nearly two years. Between the icy night when my ex and I split and the sunny spring day when the gavel finally struck, I behaved like ...
The drink arrived, and I raised it to my lips, but I instantly knew that there was a problem, and that my enjoyment of the beverage would be somewhat tempered. The beer was cold.
The environs of a bar demand a code of civility that needs to be stricter than the ones we hold ourselves to outside of its doors. Allow me to share a few of my principles of good bar etiquette.
At least he didn't write it on his hand.... ...
There are as many recipes for this old traditional winter beverage as there are for martinis.
Welcome to 2011! Er, maybe we should have said that just a tad bit more quiety on account of your epic headache right now. Yes, that would have been b...
"Brevity is the soul of wit." - Hamlet Since 2009 the website Texts From Last Night has collected a million Facebook fans, over a billion page views ...
A Ukraine firm is offering a solution to those who find themselves feeling down and out around the holidays. For 150 Ukrainian hryvnias (or about $18)...
