Maria Yagoda

1 month ago | wineenthusiast.com | Maria Yagoda |Maria agoda

We all know that interest in low- and no-alcohol options is growing, at least if restaurant and bar menus are to be believed. But coinciding alongside that, according to the new 2025 DoorDash Delivery Trends Report, is a steep uptick in alcohol delivery orders—proving that two conflicting trends can exist at once. Surveying over 1,500 U.S. consumers spanning a variety of ages, careers and income levels, from February 25 to March 3, 2025, the new report is significant for a number of reasons.

1 month ago | wineenthusiast.com | Maria Yagoda |Maria agoda

Wine snobs may look down upon Pinot Grigio, but there is quite a lot to like about the Italian white wine. First launched in the U.S. during the late 1970s, Pinot Grigio rose to become one of the most imported wines from Italy by the mid-1990s. These savory, refreshing offerings were polar opposites to the oaked-up, buttery and often palate-fatiguing Chardonnays that dominated the American market.

1 month ago | wineenthusiast.com | Maria Yagoda |Maria agoda

“Butter yellow” is everywhere. The warm pastel is popping up all over the place, from fashion runways to kitchen appliance shelves. It is so hot right now Vogue called it the “it” shade of this spring and KitchenAid dubbed it the “color of the year.” We’ve been enjoying butter yellow the most, however, in cocktail form. Some of our current favorite cocktails showcase that soft, rich yellow hue, from the smoky-sweet Penicillin to the retro Harvey Wallbanger.

1 month 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.

1 month ago | vox.com | Maria Yagoda

I never appreciated how much I aspired toward conventional hotness until I got cancer and lost all my hair. As I underwent 12 rounds of chemotherapy in 2023 to treat advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma, I became measurably “uglier”: bald, muscle-free and inflated by steroids, with only three eyelashes to my name. The Mitski lyric “But if I gave up on being pretty, I wouldn’t know how to be alive” comes to mind.