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This is VinePair’s Booze News Weekly Roundup, where we gather the hottest headlines and product releases every Friday for a snapshot of what’s happening in the beverage alcohol industry. It was a pretty quiet week on the Booze News front, but we have updates on marijuana users outpacing alcohol drinkers, the lasting effects of the now-tamed wildfires in Bordeaux, a...

It’d be an understatement to say that no one enjoys Penn Station. When most New Yorkers and out-of-towners trek through the sterilely lit and highly trafficked train station, they have one goal in mind: Get in, and get out. But if there’s one reprieve for travelers slugging their suitcases through the Midtown terminal, it’s

Today on the “VinePair Podcast,” Adam, Joanna, and Zach take a look at another reason why wine is struggling in restaurants: The drinking public is unable to perceive value with much of what’s on offer. While restaurants decry the high prices that wineries and distributors charge — and producers and drinkers cringe at the major markups restaurants apply to wine — is it...

A lot of people lost their minds in the ’80s. Compared to the decade’s cocaine-addled and clinically insane, August Busch III, the legendary head honcho at the macrobrewer that bore his name, stayed very much in control. But even the steely “Three Sticks” was not totally immune to the siren song of flash-in-the-pan fads, slick marketing, and consumer-goods yuppificatio...

Back bars are inadvertent storytellers. The bottles on their shelves provide a glimpse of the spirits industry’s zeitgeist, conveniently grouped by category. After a night of bar-hopping or regular visits to a few neighborhood spots, attentive bar guests can get a sense of which spirits are trendy, which have run their course, and which are eternal.

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