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Breaking Ground is a bi-lingual storytelling series highlighting Washington-based vineyard farmers and workers, that launched last month.

In the American Whiskey category, a total of six whiskeys, five bourbons and one rye whiskey were awarded the coveted Gold Outstanding medal.

The Glen Scotia distillery is among the smallest whisky producers in Scotland. It is also, among the oldest. Famed for its iconic whiskies, it is unfortunately little known in North America. That’s a pity, because its whiskies are world class.

Boisson began as an alcohol-free shop in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, but quickly expanded to Williamsburg, the West Village, Upper East and Upper West Sides, as their co-founders share plans to grow nationwide, as well as five delicious non-alcoholic cocktails.

Historical old vines are time machines, prophets, and cherished family heirlooms. They also produce some of the world's most intoxicating wine.

Rice whisky is definitely different in taste and profile. It produces a much softer style of distillate/whisky and the interaction with the wood is much different. It only requires one distillation where two or more for malt Rice whisky also gives you a distinctive Umami character on the palate.

Sangrita, “little blood” in Spanish, is a fruit and vegetable juice based chaser that often accompanies a Blanco Tequila. The practice widely adopted in Mexico, but unusual elsewhere, dates back to the 1920s.

From classrooms to vineyards, French wine regions offer myriad ways to study wine.

A 154-year-old spice and extract company has turned its bittersweet history into, well, bitters. The Watkins Co. makes spices, extracts and gourmet flavorings, and this Winona, MN-based company just expanded its offerings into bitters with Watkins Aromatic Bitters and Watkins Orange Bitters.

It’s long been considered common knowledge: Light or moderate drinking can contribute to heart health. A new study suggests otherwise.

Whisky, with a splash of bitcoin. This April, global restaurant group Chotto Matte will debut a specialty cocktail that can only be purchased with bitcoin.

Online or in person, learning about wine has never been more accessible

That other Italian spritz is finally starting to get its due.

An exclusive interview with the husband and wife team behind Montagave — a tequila born in Jalisco and raised with French wine barrels.

Collectors, land values and climate conditions conspire to keep this holy grail of wine out of reach for many.

In a world of whiskeys that honor men in history, Big Nose Kate honors a frontier legend of the same name.

Wine producer in Burgundy, France, connects to his explorer past to study sense of place (terroir) of the oceans in the most remote places such as Antarctica.