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by PINK LADY If you love cocktails, you most likely know your way around a bottle of curaçao. In the U.S. you can find this orange liqueur at most liquor stores in its natural clear hue or in the more vibrant blue form, which is simply the former dyed with... Read More

by ANDY CROUCH Massachusetts breweries have long pushed the envelope when it comes to ingredients, brewing practices, and marketing efforts. Some of these have been great successes (Boston Beer’s perennially popular Utopias on the positive side versus the company’s garlic beer on the not so positive side). When it comes... Read More

by KIRSTEN AMANN Mark Fisher has been a fixture of the beverage alcohol business in New England for forty years. Since 2OO6 he has been President, Sales & Marketing of Martignetti Companies, the largest distributor in New England, and the 6th largest distributor of wine and spirits in the United... Read More

by PINK LADY We love to drink applejack any time of year, but it feels especially cozy to do so in the fall here in New England. The leaves are changing, temperatures are dropping, and autumn pastimes are back, like Sunday brunching, corn mazes, apple picking, and day drinking as... Read More

by HARVEY FINKEL In this second installment on the origin of Burgundian place names, focusing on the grand crus of the Côte d’Or, we shall begin our march southward, entering Morey-Saint-Denis. We might recall that our journey began in Gevrey-Chambertin in this space of the August, 2O2O, issue of this... Read More

by ANDY CROUCH The town of Newburyport on Boston’s far North Shore, bordering New Hampshire, has long been a popular tourist and vacation destination. With the bluffy beaches of nearby Plum Island on offer, the cozy and idyllic streets of Newburyport’s historic downtown district remain filled with bustling bars, restaurants,... Read More

by HARVEY FINKEL Chile is hot. Chile is cool, and dry, and moist. It is mountainous: the towering Andes shared with Argentina are second only to the Himalayas. Chile contains the driest desert. It is the world’s most southerly country; at 27OO by an average 11O miles, the long, skinniest... Read More

by PINK LADY It’s National Bourbon Heritage Month! We’ve been raising a glass to endangered cocktails since 2OO7, the very same year Congress passed a bill calling for the celebration of bourbon as America’s “Native Spirit” with unanimous approval. We’ll drink to that! Bourbon is all the rage these days... Read More

by PINK LADY Start poking around in the annals of classic cocktail history and it won’t take long to recognize a theme: many of the greatest inventions in cocktails were originally medicinal. The Gimlet was born on the high seas to prevent scurvy. Gin and tonics proliferated to combat malaria.... Read More

by HARVEY FINKEL, MD The health effects of drinking, intensively studied during the past 3O years, can be best summarized by the French paradox and the J-shaped curve. The former was named for the surprising low frequency of coronary disease among smoking, indolent Frenchmen, enjoying Camembert and foie gras, compared... Read More