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From Fantasy Football to Facebook forecasting trends and pop culture sensations can be as tricky an exercise as shooting fish in a barrel (or avoiding clichés).  When it comes to the alcohol who would have guessed ten years ago that Pabst Blue Ribbon and Miller High Life would be the... Read More

MIKE CIMINI • 39 • CEO Yankee Spirits Inc. • Sturbridge, South Attleboro and Swansea, MA Mike Cimini is a forward-looking beverage mogul of easy modesty and resolute conviction.  The young owner of Yankee Spirits, the Bay State’s largest chain, was recently named beverage dynamics’ Retailer of the Year.  Mike... Read More

Misty Kalkofen’s cell phone you might say, is her most valuable bartending tool. She regularly gets text messages from bartenders all around the country asking about recipes, products, and mixology methods. And, of course, she puts out sundry inquiries, too. She’s part of an informal but active network of tastemakers,... Read More

So much of the information reported about the relationships of cancer to alcohol consumption is conflicted and confusing that the comprehensive 2OO-page meta-review from the Australian Cancer Institute in New South Wales (www.cancerinstitute.org.au/cancer_inst/publications/pdfs/pm-2OO8-O3_alcohol-as-a-cause-of-cancer.pdf) is most welcome.  We must keep in mind that cancer is not one disease, but many, and... Read More

IT’S REMARKABLE that despite a year of economic misery and with little optimism for a speedy recovery, the market for wine in the United States actually grew again in 2OO8.  Per capita consumption surpassed three gallons for the first time ever and despite a palpable absence of demand in virtually... Read More

Talk to anyone who’s spent a lifetime in the spirits industry and you’ll hear the same thing: People drink when the market is up and they drink when the market is down.  And when it comes to rum brands have worked full-force to develop and maintain consumer loyalty.  That’s a... Read More

I was at a whiskey and spirits show and it took me 45 minutes to get to the Jameson table, where I was just in time to get the very last drops they had of the awesome Rarest Vintage Reserve . . . that’s the kind of luck that makes... Read More

DYLAN BLACK • 34 • Owner-Manager • Green Street • Central Square Cambridge Located in Central Square between Cambridge’s twin pillars of academe Harvard and MIT, Green Street (formerly with ‘Grill’ appended) has long been a people’s pleasure dome, serving its neighbors since the Great Depression.  Owner Dylan Black, steeped... Read More

PasoRobles is an Approved Viticultural Area AVA, positioned halfway down the huge Central Coast AVA as it stretches from just south of San Francisco to just north of Los Angeles. Its 24 square mile surface is positioned at the northern edge of San Luis Obispo County and contains 26,OOO acres... Read More