Wine & Spirits: Guacamole Festival at La Sandia
Guacamole, chips and inspired sips are on the menu this month at La Sandia.
Wine & Spirits: Summer Spirit Roundup
Newly released spirits and cocktail recipes for your warm weather gatherings.
Wine & Spirits: Muchos Margaritas
Where are DC's best tequila-infused concoctions? Here are our top five.
Wine & Spirits: Dining In at 2941
08 February 2011
The Sommelier at undeniably one of the most romantic spots in the area dishes on making Valentine’s Day memorable.
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Night Life: Get The Chills at Donovan House’s Rooftop Ice Bar
07 February 2011
The Donovan House’s exclusive rooftop pool bar, ADC (Above DC) ices over this February to become DC’s hottest place to chill.
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Wine & Spirits: Hot Drinks for Cozy Nights
28 January 2011
DC Mixologists Chantal Tseng and Adam Bernbach offer up some simmering sips to cure what ails ya.
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Wine & Spirits: Resolutions You Can Keep for 2011
12 January 2011
A thirst-quenching array of events, seminar, books and more to help you get your drink—and your thinking cap—on this year.
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Wine & Spirits: Sparkling Tips for New Year’s Eve
30 December 2010
Chill it, serve it, mix it, pair it, save it. A lesson in Sparkling Wine 101 to help you ring in 2011.
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Wine & Spirits: Liquid Gifts for a Spirited Holiday
09 December 2010
Wine- and cocktail-themed gifts this holiday season make for happy recipients (who may even share them with the lucky giver...) Read on for four creative ideas inspired in part by DC wine and spirit movers and shakers.
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Wine & Spirits: French Wine 101 – Try Beaujolais
30 November 2010
How to make Beaujolais one of your go-to sips this (and any) season.
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Wine & Spirits: Brews You Can Use…for Turkey Day
23 November 2010
Why stress over what kind of wine to uncork this Thursday? Rustico Beer Director Greg Engert explains how beer is not only bubbly and refreshing, but it can be complex and able to pair with the diverse ingredients found on Thanksgiving tables.
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Wine & Spirits: Hot Drinks for Cold Nights
19 November 2010
Looking for a hot cocktail to warm up your cold winter evening?
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Wine & Spirits: Illogically Delicious Scotch Cocktails
10 November 2010
Suspend your disbelief and mix up a classic and contemporary concoction that need to be sipped to be believed.
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Wine & Spirits: It’s the Great Pumpkin
27 October 2010
Get into the spirit of Halloween with one of these pumpkin-based potent potables.
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Wine & Spirits: Inniskillin Icewine
20 October 2010
The 2007 vintage of Inniskillin's Vidal Pearl provides a unique taste to reward your palette.
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Wine and Spirits: Hendrick’s Gin Cocktail Seminar
15 October 2010
Deconstructing and reinventing a classic cocktail bridges the gin-eration gap.
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Wine & Spirits: A Sweet Mojito Spa Service
08 October 2010
A spa, in the town that chocolate was built, kicks it up with exotic treatments straight from Cubaaaaaaah.
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Wine and Spirits: Beefeater 24
04 October 2010
Break out the tonic- Beefeater 24, a premium handcrafted gin, launched with a bang at the Gibson.
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Wine & Spirits: Master Sommelier Kathy Morgan
01 October 2010
The wine director of Michel Richard’s Citronelle joins the ranks of only other fifteen women in the world to have earned this coveted title.
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Wine & Spirits: Be a Stella Artois Draught Master
21 September 2010
The Stella Artois 2010 World Draught Masters competition is underway. Think you have what it takes to pour like a master? Follow this 9-Step Pouring Ritual and you’ll rule the tap before you can say “cheers.”
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Wine & Spirits: Portugal Beyond Port – Alentejo Wines
21 September 2010
Grape names mostly unknown to American ears and palates are producing unforgettable wines in southern Portugal.
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Wine & Spirits: The Glass is the Thing
10 September 2010
Spiegelau’s New Hybrid Collection Meshes Form and Function.
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Wine & Spirits: Vive Spanish Whites!
26 August 2010
Crisp Albariño from Spain’s Rias Baixas region hits the spot during these last fleeting weeks of summer.
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Wine & Spirits: Gibson’s Mix Master
02 August 2010
If you haven’t been back to The Gibson in awhile, three distinct spaces (and cocktail menus) under one roof are more than enough reason to belly up to the bar.
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Wine & Spirits: Sweet Summer Sips
27 July 2010
Sit back, relax, and enjoy these unique savory sips that will leave you feeling like it's Summer all year long.
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Wine & Spirits: Quenching Your Thirst at the Clifton Inn
20 July 2010
The historic inn in a bucolic setting outside Charlottesville provides guests with a bevy of beverage options.
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Wine & Spirits: Summer Scotch Cocktails from Proof’s Adam Bernbach
09 July 2010
Don’t save smoky, peaty whiskey for when the barometer drops—it has a rightful place behind the bar all year long.
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Wine & Spirits: DC’s Best Pisco Sours
06 July 2010
Hot, humid, and over 90 degrees. Defeat the heat and cool off with a refreshing Pisco Sour!
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Life of the Party: Charity On at “Vodka-Off”
30 June 2010
The top business and philanthropic figures of the District gathered at Smith and Wollensky Steakhouse to mingle, participate in an auction, and most importantly, taste the highest-quality of Vodka in the world.
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Wine & Spirits: The Original Tequila Sunrise
29 June 2010
An historic and posh Arizona landmark created the original version of a cocktail classic. Who knew?
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Wine & Spirits: Beefeater Summer Edition Gin
22 June 2010
Toast the arrival of summer with some freshly cut and very mixable flower garden-to-glass botanicals found in Beefeater Summer Edition Gin.
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Wine & Spirits: To Infinium and Beyond!
16 June 2010
Infinium, an innovative brew, is surprising beer connoisseurs everywhere!
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Wine & Spirits: Moonshine Iced Tea at AGAINN
15 June 2010
The DC Gastropub offers summertime thirst-quenchers that are steeped in flavor.
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Wine & Spirits: Cocktail Classes for the Masses
03 June 2010
Hit the book and then the bottle with one of these knowledge- and thirst-quenching seminars.
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Wine & Spirits: Summertime and the Sipping’s Easy
25 May 2010
It’s almost Memorial Day weekend. What to drink? Think crisp white wines and light-bodied reds that won’t make you melt in the sweltering heat, refreshing libations on the rocks, and farm-to-glass concoctions with the freshest summer produce.
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Wine & Spirits: Q&A With Urbana Mixtress Amy Troutmiller
14 May 2010
She’s got an insatiable love of pickling, experience behind the stick at bars in South Beach, and card-carrying membership in a ladies’ cocktail preservation society. We check in with Urbana’s Assistant General Manager and new mix-mistress Amy Troutmiller and some of her current creative concoctions.
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Wine & Spirits: Sustainable Sipping for Earth Day
20 April 2010
In the spirit of Earth Day, while enjoying your favorite beer, spirit, red or white, don’t forget to propose a toast to thinking green.
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Mixing It Up: Artini at the Corcoran Gallery
12 April 2010
Twelve local mixologists come together to show off their signature concoctions, inspired by artwork at the Corcoran Gallery
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Wine & Spirits: A Cherry-Tinged Combier Rouge
09 April 2010
The appeal of Combier's new cherry flavored all natural liqueur will linger much longer than the disappearing cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin.
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Wine & Spirits: Central Launches Monthly Wine Dinners
04 April 2010
Central’s New Series of Monthly Wine Dinners Turn Monday from Monotonous to Marvelous.
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Wine & Spirits: Slainte! Beer Cocktails for St. Patrick’s Day
16 March 2010
On St. Patrick's Day, wear green rather than drink it, and instead reach for a brew-based cocktail.
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Wine & Spirits: Jockey Club Features Hanzell Vineyards
12 March 2010
Guests at The Fairfax Embassy Row's Jockey Club certainly didn’t suffer from Pinot envy at the Hanzell Vineyards wine dinner.
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Wine & Spirits: Lord Fairfax Sipped Here
05 March 2010
Fairfax County opens the first winery since the age of Thomas Jefferson and Lord Fairfax.
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Wine & Spirits: Oscar Night Libations
03 March 2010
On Sunday evening, it really doesn’t matter who wins or loses, as long as the potions are flowing!
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Wine & Spirits: Do Canadian Wines Win the Gold?
25 February 2010
Our neighbors to the north make some killer juice, including rare, rich icewine and dry, food friendly Rieslings.
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Wine & Spirits: A Bloody Good Drink
22 February 2010
R.W. 'Jonnhy' Apple's take on the classic Bloody Mary cocktail.
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Wine & Spirits: Mardi Gras Cocktail Recipes!
15 February 2010
From a twist on the Sazerac to a variation of the Hurricane, local mixologists have got you covered on Fat Tuesday.
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Wine & Spirits: Try Red Bubbles for Valentine’s Day!
11 February 2010
Sure, drinking pink bubbly on Valentine’s Day is fun, flirty and romantic. But red sparklers can be downright naughty.
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Wine & Spirits: Happy National Pisco Sour Day!
06 February 2010
The Embassy of Peru celebrates National Pisco Sour Day with classic and unconventional takes on the country's signature cocktail.
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Wine & Spirits: Cool Wine and Cheese Pairings
28 January 2010
The perfect pairing with your favorite cheese is always a glass of red wine, right? Not so fast.
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Wine & Spirits: Bibiana’s Feminine Inspiration
19 January 2010
The inspired cocktail names on Bibiana’s drink list shows that it's Ladies’ Night, and the sipping’s right.
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Wine & Spirits: The Art of the Mocktail
15 January 2010
Bourbon Steak’s inspired mocktails appeal to both teetotalers and tipplers.
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Wine & Spirits: Have a Hot Toddy!
11 January 2010
Made with a good swift kick of spirits, some hot tea or water, citrus and spice, the Hot Toddy is just what the bartender ordered. Or make it yourself with this recipe.
