Binny's Blog

Recapping UGC 2023 at the Drake Hotel, where our customers and wine buyers sampled the stellar 2020 vintage.

Treat your family and holiday guests to the Binny’s Demo Kitchen recipe for prime rib of beef with a whipped horseradish cream.

Travel out to Whiskey Acres in DeKalb for a Whiskey Hotline/Barrel to Bottle field trip.

Union des Grand Crus de Bordeaux brings the annual En Primeur to Binny's.

Binny’s received 50 cases of 2018 Bordeaux samples, which were shared across the chain so wine staff from all stores could better understand the vintage.

We asked Lincoln Park wine manager Gabe what topic he could talk about for a half an hour.

Sauternes has the unfortunate distinction of being a wine everyone loves, but few people actually drink. It suffers from the perception that wine must be dry to be fine.

“Americans are allergic to bad vintages,” observed one person in Bordeaux during a recent trip. I couldn’t disagree. The view here is often absolute: a vintage is either good or bad. And people don’t want to drink “bad” vintages.

As we gear up to focus on Bordeaux for the month of September it seems fitting to recap the annual Binny's en premier trip.

A group of our wine specialists recently visited Illinois Sparkling Wine Company. Founder and lead winemaker Mark Wenzel walked us through the vineyard and shared his family's story