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A possible pitfall when ordering a bottle of wine at a restaurant is that it may need time to decant. Wines — especially those suitable for food — often require some time to open, allowing their best tastes and textural qualities to flourish. Wondering about ways to work around this, a listener sent in the question: Why isn’t pre-ordering wine, decanting before arrival...
If you have a favorite local watering hole, you know there’s something special about being a regular. Reaching the level where bar staff doesn’t just know your name, but also your order, can be a truly satisfying experience. Good regulars will typically respond in turn, chatting politely with their bartenders when there’s adequate time to do so before always leaving a ...
An old industry joke holds that when you order a beer, the liquid itself is free. You just have to pay for the excise tax, the packaging, and the shipping. The latter is the most immoveable of the three. Taxes can be lobbied down, to some extent at least. Packaging can be tweaked, upgraded, and downsized. But until somebody invents a “Star Trek”-style transporter syste...
In 2025, the pendulum of drink trends didn’t swing back and forth — it ran amok. Tariffs drove prices up, and general market chaos ensued. The wine industry took a big step back from major entry-leve...
