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6 days ago | wineenthusiast.com | Maria Yagoda |Maria agoda

Few civilians find themselves blind tasting wines. Wine pros and reviewers, however, employ the method to eliminate pre-existing expectations and bias as they assess a wine’s merits. For Wine Enthusiast blind tastings, all bottles are cellared for at least three weeks before they are reviewed, in order to eliminate a phenomenon called “bottle shock.” Then, a tasting coordinator removes the corks and places the bottles in paper bags that conceal the labels and shape before the tasting begins.

2 weeks ago | wineenthusiast.com | Maria Yagoda |Maria agoda

Putting ice cubes in wine was already a bit controversial. But frozen sliced jalapeños? Let the pearl-clutching begin. A new, semi-sacriligious beverage trend is taking off on TikTok, with some creators calling jalapeño-flecked white wine the drink of the summer. The search for “Jalapeño Sauvignon Blanc,” which is exactly what it sounds like, has over 2.5 million views on the video app. The “recipe” is simple: Slice jalapeños, freeze them and plop them into a glass of Sauvignon Blanc.

3 weeks ago | wineenthusiast.com | Maria Yagoda |Maria agoda

Tequila Negronis, tequila martinis, tequila mojitos: very few classic cocktails are safe from the modernizing power of the Mexican agave spirit. While tequila is millenia-old, the spirit has only recently asserted its rightful place in American cocktail bars. Many mixologists cite the Oaxaca Old Fashioned, a drink Phil Ward invented at NYC’s Death & Co in 2007, as catalyzing the tequila cocktail boom.

3 weeks ago | wineenthusiast.com | Maria Yagoda |Maria agoda

As tequila continues its global rise, the agave spirit is disrupting classic cocktails everywhere, subbing in as the main spirit in everything from Negronis to martinis. “Agave spirits have so much depth to offer to classic cocktails,” says Sarah Kornegay, bar manager at The Katharine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.