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The Taste of Water, Explained by Water Sommeliers
You’re not imagining it—some water really is better than others.
The Grossest Displays of Wealth I've Seen Working at High End Restaurants
Sometimes, a Chihuahua needs a rare sirloin steak.
Queensland “Love Infused” Bottled Water Is Officially The Best In The World
The prizewinning drop claims to be the “most dynamic beverage in the universe’’.
10 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask a Sommelier
"I've seen colleagues at tastings down litres of wine and get so drunk they can barely remember their names."
We Got an Expert to Taste Test Supermarket Sangria
To help you choose the best sangria a very small amount of money can buy.
Sommeliers Can Be Total Assholes
Sommeliers can be extremely annoying, at least when they’re eating somewhere they don’t work. We all know “that guy,” but many of us end up being “that guy” on our days off.
Inside the London Wine Bar That Feels Like a Mate’s Kitchen
“People will constantly just walk into the ‘kitchen’ and chat to the chef,” says Phil Bracey of P. Franco, a casual wine bar and shop in Clapton. ”It feels like our house.”
A Seven-Course Dinner with a Gang of Rogue Australian Winemakers
When London's Typing Room restaurant invited some New Wave Aussie wine producers to showcase their best vino, the evening started with weird berries and ended with a ménage à trois.
How Smelling and Drinking Wine Can Protect You from Alzheimer’s
The researchers behind this study chose to put 13 Master Sommeliers and 13 civilians into an MRI machine and had them smell fruits and wine, in order to look at the structural differences between the two groups of brains.
This Sake Sommelier Wants You to Stop Drinking Crappy Hot Sake
Think you don't like sake? Motoko Watanabe of Zenkichi says that's because you've been drinking mass-produced swill that's served boiling hot to mask its crappiness.
We Spoke to the Winemaker Ridiculing Hipsters with His Wine
One Aussie vintner decided to release a line called The Hipster, using the very irony that defines hipsters against them.
We Asked Australia's Best Sommelier to Find the Nicest, Cheapest Goon
Melbourne-based Banjo Harris Plane was named Sommelier of the Year by twice in 2014. We wasted his talents on six terrible wines.