What We're Drinking: Rosé From Southern France
May’s warm weather and fresh seasonal culinary options bring to mind the Mediterranean and the fine rosés of Southern France, which is the original home of rosé.
What We're Drinking: New York Sour
The sourness from the lemon and the barrel from the whiskey draw out the raw fruit flavors of the wine in the New York Sour. Your choice of red wine will determine the overall flavors you get from the drink.
What We're Drinking: Diki Diki
Believed to have been created at the Embassy Club in London in 1922, this concoction has a fanciful name that translates to “healthy and wealthy” in the Tibetan Sherpa language. It features two ingredients that are somewhat rare and underused: Swedish punsch and Calvados.
What We're Drinking: Alsatian Gewurztraminer
Alsatian Gewurztraminer pairs well with spicy Asian dishes, roasted duck and strong cheeses as well as the fish and pork dishes traditionally served at spring holiday gatherings. Get Jennifer Johnson's go-to bottles.
What We're Drinking: South African Cabernet
Have a penchant for Cabernet Sauvignon and a sense of adventure to taste beyond California, France and Italy? South Africa has made leaps and bounds in modernizing its centuries-old wine industry since apartheid isolation.
What We're Drinking: The Bee’s Knees
The Bee's Knees is equally simple and complex. More on the cocktail and leading St. Louis bartender Matt Seiter's recipe here.
What We're Drinking: Chilean Carmenère
Carmenère was once a prominent blending grape in Bordeaux, but it was not replanted after two devastating 19th-century European vine scourges - largely because of its susceptibility to mold in wet conditions. It was transported to Chile in the mid-1800s and has thrived ever since in Chile…
What We're Drinking: Negroni
This is a strong drink - it's all booze - that is lightly sweet and very bitter with a hint of orange from the Campari.
What We're Drinking: The Cosmopolitan
Most of us know the Cosmopolitan as the pink-hued beauty made fashionable by the Sex and the City television series. However, the drink has a past more storied and complex than the show's four lead characters combined.
What We're Drinking: Spanish Garnacha
Pair these two wines with braised or smoked meats, spicy dishes and hearty stews.
What We're Drinking: Northeast Italy's Sparkling Wines
Thinking about sparkling wine this holiday season and want to impress? Northeast Italy's sparkling wines are as diverse as its varied terrain, yet they all share a refreshingly crisp acidity because of the area's cool continental climate. Here are two to try!
What We're Drinking: Holiday Punch
Punch is the perfect cocktail solution for holiday parties. Try out these two recipes by a leading St. Louis bartender.
What We're Drinking: The Old Fashioned
Once upon a time, there were different classes of drinks, like cocktails, daisies, fixes, slings and fizzes. The criterion for a cocktail was a base spirit, sugar, water and bitters. In other words, the recipe for an Old Fashioned. First mixed more than 200 years ago, the Old Fashioned co…
What We're Drinking: Beaujolais Cru and Nouveau
Consider opening a Cru Beaujolais as well as a Nouveau at your Thanksgiving celebration this year.
What We're Drinking: Sonoma Zinfandel
Zinfandel has been grown in California since the 1830s and has found an ideal home in Sonoma, benefiting from its warm days and cool, maritime-influenced nights. It has regained recognition as California’s claret after the rise and decline of “white Zin,” a sweet pink made from Zinfandel …
