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Thirteen Thanksgiving wine pairings for your upcoming holiday feast.

Discover a bold twist on the classic Bellini with this refreshing Bourbon Bellini cocktail recipe. Juicy peach flavors meet smooth bourbon and sparkling wine for a vibrant, easy-to-make drink perfect for brunch, summer gatherings, or celebratory toasts.

The heavenly riff on the French 75 features Italian red aperitivo and fresh strawberry slices.

Relive the Roaring Twenties in the City of Lights with Paris Between the Wars, a scotch-based cocktail with fresh lemon juice and the bitter bite of Campari.

What are you drinking for Thanksgiving? We’ve got recommendations for spirits before, during and after dinner, beers that pair with a wide range of dishes and wines to pair with specific types of guests at your dinner table.

Our Demo Kitchen presents three side dish recipes for those intrepid souls hosting Thanksgiving for the first time and trying to please everyone.

The Black Velvet is sophisticated St. Patrick’s Day cocktail recipe. This simple, luxurious blend of Guinness and Champagne is the perfect way to cap off your extended Celtic carousing.

Pat is constantly extolling the virtues of aromatized wines. Finally, we have a guest who will actually agree with him and won’t just make fun of him. Jake Parrott is a friend of the pod and the Whiskey Hotline and is also the national sales director of Haus Alpenz. What Jake sells, and Pat loves, is woefully esoteric. But Binny’s customers, and Barrel to Bottle listeners, are enthusiasts.

Our resident Mixologist put together an original Champagne punch, fit for a New Year’s Eve.