• From The Daily Beast Google “Demi Moore Red Bull addiction.” You’ll score nearly 2 million hits. Most call Moore a Red Bull addict. She’s had this crimson bovine on her back for 10 years, they say, and that’s why she checked into rehab last week. Moore allegedly used Red Bull as a meal replacement. [...]
Co-owners Jason Grizzanti (left), Jeremy Kidd WARWICK — The distillery segment of Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery is catching on with the public. In fact, in addition to its fourth distillery demonstration and tasting series scheduled for February, Warwick has added an intermediate course in March for those who have taken the introductory series. Every [...]
NEW YORK — A weak economy may be wreaking havoc on many industries, but the distilled spirits industry experienced growth in 2011 while taking more market share again from beer. That was among findings released by Distilled Spirits Council President and CEO Peter Cressy at the industry’s annual briefing for Wall Street analysts and reporters [...]
Work is proceeding nicely in this Winter of No Snow on the new tank room at the Hudson-Chatham Winery in Ghent, Columbia County. Go here for a Facebook album of photos detailing the project. Get all the latest news on my Upstate Restaurant Examiner column and check out what’s coming up on my NY Drinks [...]
Tam and his cronies drinking in the opening scene of the poem. Fans of Cutty Sark whisky who are interested in scoring a bottle of a new limited edition expression may have to go to unusual lengths to do so. Adrington Group, which owns the Scotch whisky brand, has launched Tam o’Shanter blended whisky but [...]
Rats! All these years I’ve been making my martinis the wrong way. No, not that endless and unwinnable argument over proportions of gin or vodka to dry vermouth. This is about stirring a martini. No, not that endless and unwinnable argument over clockwise or counterclockwise. I speak here of the latest piece of scientific research [...]
• TV game show host Pat Sajak admitted in an interview with ESPN2 that he and longtime eye candy Vanna White used to knock back numerous drinks during breaks in taping their “Wheel of Fortune” show. “Our dinner breaks would be 2½ hours long while they drove in new cars and boats and gazebos and [...]
Get all the latest news on my Upstate Restaurant Examiner column and check out what’s coming up on my NY Drinks Events Calendar.
Get all the latest news on my Upstate Restaurant Examiner column and check out what’s coming up on my NY Drinks Events Calendar.
ALBANY — Time is running out to purchase tickets for Friday night’s 8th annual “Taste of Compassion.” Tickets for the fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Upstate New York/Vermont Chapter are available online or by calling (518) 474-5877 at $75 each, or $65 for persons 35 and under. The event will begin at 7 [...]