Here's what's happening in wine and whiskey this week:

Drink This

🥶  “A cold wine is more a thing to drink and less a thing to savour.”  It’s chilled red season.

🍹  15 fabulous cocktails to make this summer.

🏅  10 recommendations from a newly-minted James Beard Award-winning somm.

🇲🇽  The best Mezcals you can drink for under $50.

🥃  The 10 most important Scotch whiskies of the last 25 years. 

Get Out There

🧙  Philly’s “most enchanting wine experience.”

👚   What to wear on your winery visits.

⭐  Wine Spectator’s 2025 Restaurant Awards. 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿  How to visit Scotland’s top distilleries.

⛰️  “The Venice of the Alps.”

♣️  Where Vegas locals go for a glass of good wine.

The Business

👑   Big doings in the realm of British Royal wine brands. 

😛  What happened when a winery’s founder bought the business back from its corporate parent? The wine started to taste better.

🌿  Is “sustainable wine” becoming a meaningless term?

Boooo

🇮🇹  “We had to move out of our beloved home on [S]anto [S]pirito in Firenze due to the overwhelming numbers of disrespectful, obnoxious tourists piling up on our doorstep from 10am for overpriced wine doled out of that overhyped wine window you made so famous.” Italians aren’t thrilled about the Tucci Effect.

😞  A major wine trade publication shuts down.

Woooo!

📏  Great wine by the centimeter at two outstanding Bay Area hotspots. 

🇳🇿  It’s time to pay attention to the whiskies coming out of New Zealand.

🌍  The new benchmark wine regions.

✝️  What the pope drinks.

😎  “Sicily is often overlooked for its fine wine production by those whose tastes run towards Barolo, Brunello di Montalcino, or Amarone.” They’re missing out.  

💫  The World Whiskies Awards’ best single malts.

The Opinion Page

💰   Tips on investing in wine from Pacific Northwest collectors who know.

📚  “How wine school made me less pretentious about wine.”

😬   Jancis Robinson on the real cost of wine production.

😍  Moderation isn’t just about health; it’s about enhancing the pleasure of your drink.

Thanks for reading! See you next week.