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These days, winemakers all over the world are enthusiastically producing orange wine, and the sheer number and variety of wines, flavors, textures, and styles is mind-boggling.

Olivier Trégoat traveled roughly 100 days per year before the pandemic, dividing his time between Asia and South America.

Despite the pandemic rattling last year’s global wine market, imports of Georgian wines to the U.S. continued to thrive. Figures from The National Wine Agency of Georgia show that for six consecutive years, Georgian wine exports to the United States have averaged +31% year-over-year by volume.

Last weekend and Monday, amid an insular country disconnected from most of the world by two prudish oceans, in an event called “Madness” only one nation has hatched and cherished, a Swiss man had an aria of a stat line. A Canadian son of Nigerian immigrants had numbers like a daydream. His Dominican teammate had a near-sonnet.

At Night + Market, Kris and Sarah Yenbamroong show you a whole new way to pair wine and Thai food.

To converse with Steven Spurrier was to feel as though you’d known him all your life. He was generous with his friendship, his wisdom of wine and art, his joy of life. Wine is a generous drink, and wine lovers tend to be generous people. Spurrier was wine’s generosity personified.

On the first anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, Foodie & The Beast was joined by a range of guests in the hospitality industry whose quick wits and imaginations helped them to pivot to new business models that in many cases saved their businesses or helped save others.

Have you ever wondered who produced your artisanal olive oil or your locally-made cheese and wine? Chances are that you’re imagining gruff men toiling away in dusty groves or inspecting huge oak barrels. And while that may be the case in many instances, it most certainly hasn’t always been that way in Israel, where women were just as much pioneers as men in the country’s pre-state and early days.

In a virtual ceremony held this week, the winners of this year’s André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards 2020 were announced out of a shortlist of four drinks titles and seven food tomes.

The winners of the 2020 André Simon Awards were announced on Wednesday 3 March, in a Zoom ceremony attended by an international audience.

Have you experienced how cold weather drives cravings for hearty foods and matching red wines?

The wines of Georgia are having a moment, and it is about time. Wine is very old in Georgia, the cradle of wine, but Georgian wines are relatively new on the markets here in the United States, as Georgian producers pivot from dependence on Russia and former Soviet states and work hard to develop markets in the UK, EU, US, and China.