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☆ Ex-Bon Appétit editor Marissa Ross says the wine world ruined her. Now she's back and ready to give it hell.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

Her rise was tied to a period of reinvention for the wine world during which natural wine conquered millennial taste buds and became ubiquitous on menus across the US. Marissa Ross, Bon Appétit's wine editor from 2016 to 2020, often posted pictures of herself chugging straight from the bottle — a technique she called "The Ross test." "Natural wine," a nebulous term that generally refers to wine made with minimal intervention and without additives like sulfites, was tentatively entering the American wine world. Many in the wine world took the idea that you didn't have to be educated to know about wine as a personal insult. When she first told BA that she planned to cover only natural wines, Ross said, Rapoport called to try to change her mind.

☆ Female-owned farms and companies are growing Ghana's taste for coffee
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

As the women worked, Tamakloe walked among them with a device to test the coffee beans' moisture content. Today, Bean Masters coffee is mostly sold in bulk to high-end restaurants and hotels. But Tamakloe aims to expand her production of retail-sized bags this year to make Bean Masters available to all kinds of consumers. At Kozo, an Afro-Asian fusion restaurant in Accra, Tamakloe and the staff sipped espressos made with Bean Masters coffee. The owner visited Pagniw's farm with Tamakloe in 2021, and has exclusively stocked Bean Masters ever since.

☆ Sommelier who's tasted 15,000 wines: Never spend less than $30 on a bottle
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"That's all that's just living inside your wine." Osborn has tasted more than 15,000 bottles of wine and concedes that you occasionally get very good bottles for cheap and pay exorbitant prices for wine that ends up being disappointing. But that's unlikely to help you find a bottle of wine that actually tastes good. The label you should be focusing on is on the other side of the bottle, Osborn says. Keep an eye out for the same bottlesOne thing that's worth looking out for on the front-facing labels: familiar faces.

☆ How to Eat Very, Very Well in the Woods
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Matthew Kronsberg | Photographs Kevin J. Miyazaki For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

GETTING TO the Milkweed Inn, run by chef Iliana Regan and her sommelier wife, Anna Hamlin, is not easy. The drive from Chicago to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula takes six hours, ultimately on rutted dirt roads deep inside the Hiawatha National Forest. And that’s if you’re able to get a room in the first place. The 2023 season and much of 2024’s are already sold out. There is some consolation, however, for fans who have followed Ms. Regan’s career from her Michelin-starred Chicago restaurant, Elizabeth, now closed, through her 2019 memoir, “Burn the Place,” an unflinching account of her farmhouse upbringing, her grappling with addiction and gender identity, and her emergence as a chef: Her new book, “Fieldwork” (Agate Midway), comes out Jan. 24.

For startup founders and venture capitalists, the office holiday party is a December tradition. For many venture capitalists and the startup founders they invest in, December is synonymous with two things: end-of-year paperwork and office holiday parties. But this year, holiday parties in startup-land look a little different. "Align those goals with your holiday party, and you can do something powerful and cost-effective," she said. "You should maybe cut some travel, maybe you don't have a big holiday party, but that's all drop in the bucket compared to head count," he said.

☆ Wine to Drink in a Restaurant vs. Wine to Drink at Home: Why the Divide?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Lettie Teague | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SHELF GAME You loved that wine your sommelier recommended, but would you have passed it by in a store? WHILE DINING at Terzo restaurant in Minneapolis last month, I ordered a bottle of wine with a cheap-looking label—one so ugly I might have bypassed it in a store. I mentioned this to Terzo’s wine director and co-owner, Charlie Broder, when he presented the bottle. He told me that he and his friend Peter Vars, manager and wine buyer of the local store Thomas Liquors & Fine Wines, talk about such matters a lot. Sometimes Mr. Vars worries that wines Mr. Broder can easily sell wouldn’t look good on his store’s shelves.

☆ No alcohol sales permitted at Qatar's World Cup stadium sites
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Andrew Mills | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The announcement comes two days before Sunday's kickoff of the World Cup, the first to be held in a conservative Muslim country with strict controls on alcohol, the consumption of which is banned in public. For years, Qatar's tournament organisers have said that alcohol would be widely accessible to fans at the tournament. Budweiser has been a World Cup sponsor since 1985, the year before the event was held in Mexico. "Tournament organisers appreciate AB InBev’s understanding and continuous support to our joint commitment to cater for everyone during the FIFA World Cup," the statement said. Questions have swirled around the role alcohol would play at this year's World Cup since Qatar won hosting rights in 2010.

Capital One's new partnership with PRIOR can help Venture X cardholders book exclusive tours to places like Napa Valley. Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card cardholders now receive a free PRIOR subscription ($149 value). Capital One is now enhancing this entertainment portal for anyone with the Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card. Rewards Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. Bottom lineThe Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card is already an extremely compelling travel credit card.

☆ Thieves stole 132 bottles of wine worth $200,000 from a Michelin-starred restaurant by going through an abandoned pharmacy next door in a 'very precise' heist
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

132 bottles of wine costing an average of $1,500 each were stolen from a Madrid restaurant. The robbers made an entrance hole in a pharmacy next door, and escaped without tripping any alarms. The thieves went for the most prestigious bottles, with the looted wines worth more than $1,500 each on average. The police investigation found that the burglars entered through an abandoned pharmacy next door. Wine worth thousands of dollars was stolen from another Spanish restaurant last year.

☆ Why an ex-Shopify manager quit after 'explosive' career growth to focus on her $2 million tea company
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

She said that changes to Shopify's culture convinced her it was time to make the leap. For Brady, changes to Shopify's culture were a big factor in her decision to leave. Tease hit $2 million in revenue in 2021, and Brady said she has a goal of hitting $5 million this year. What she first imagined as a temporary gig led to seven years and a team leadership role at Shopify. Brady said that Shopify's leadership was very encouraging of employees like her choosing to balance entrepreneurship with their full-time jobs.

☆ I'm a 23-year-old who's saved more than $107,000 by waitressing and bartending in Nantucket and Aspen. Here's what it's like being a seasonal worker.
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-02 | by ( Lauryn Haas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Sam Madden, 23, has worked as a nanny, waitress, and bartender in Nantucket and Aspen for six years. I had some money saved to pay for rent because I'd worked at McDonald's and Olive Garden throughout high school. In the main house, there were a bunch of college guys and girls who all worked at the Nantucket Yacht Club, and I thought that their summer looked like so much fun. My manager saw that I had bartending on my résumé from the yacht club and asked if I wanted to start bartending. She lived with a manager of a restaurant called Cru, which is kind of the "It" restaurant on the island.

Șase vinării din Moldova au câștigat medalii la London Wine Competition. Vinaria Purcari# Negru De Purcari Vintage 2017# Rose De Purcari Nocturne 2019# Traminer De Purcari Sapiens 2019# NEGRU DE PURCARI 2016# Malbec De Purcari Sapiens 2019 și altele. Castel Mimi# Castel Mimi – Viorica 2020# Roșu de Bulboaca 2016# Castel Mimi Feteasca Alba 2019# Castel Mimi Merlot 2016# Castel Mimi Saperavi Limited Edition. Vinăria Bostavan# DOR Merlot & Saperavi 2019;# DOR Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2019;# DOR Feteasca Alba & Chardonnay 2019;# DOR Rara Neagra & Cabernet Sauvignon 2019;# DOR Reserve Chardonnay 2018. # Fautor Negre 2017# Fautor Aurore Rara Neagră 2018# Castel Mimi Sfaditele 2018# Kvint Kvintessence Viognier Extra Brut.

Persons: Rose, Negru, Sauvignon Blanc, Mimi, Castel Mimi, Viorica, Mimi Saperavi, Vinăria Organizations: Michelin, Sauvignon, Vinaria, Pinot Locations: Moldova, London, Republica Moldova, Marii Britanii, Rose de Purcari, străinătate, Purcari, Gitana, Negru, Traminer, Malbec, Roșu, Bulboaca, Petite

A devenit o cultură, o temă de dezbatere și un motiv social. Așadar, din dragostea mea pentru mirosul de cafea și neputința de a o servi, am creat acest desert. Cafeaua este un ingredient puternic, dar e și mai complicat să creezi un buchet echilibrat dacă nu ai o paletă dezvoltată. Azi mi-am adus aminte de ce îl iubesc. Imaginile colorate și exotice îl inspirau și îl făceau să privească altfel lumea, iar el m-a făcut să-l privesc altfel pe el.

Persons: Luca, Lucà, Alain Ducasse, emoția, Marina, Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh, încerc Organizations: Marina Locations: Franța, Paris, digitalizării, Coffee, căci, Japonia, Amsterdam, Țările de Jos, Yuzu

☆ Promovare remarcabilă a vinului moldovenesc în SUA
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-17 | by ( ) ziuadeazi.md time to read: +2 min

În contextul creșterii interesului unor medii de afaceri americane, în special din domeniul vitivinicol, pentru regiunea Europei de Est, compania americano-română OenoCo International împreună cu Centrul Interregional de Advocacy și Diplomație din Chișinău au realizat recent o remarcabilă campanie de promovare a sectorului vitivinicol din Republica Moldova în SUA. Potrivit Paulei Stanca, CMS Certified Sommelier & Ambassador of Eastern European Wines, ”profesioniștii americani din domeniul vinului privesc Republica Moldova ca pe un potențial furnizor important și o țară cu oportunități remarcabile pentru investiții străine în domeniul vinului. SUA ar putea deveni una dintre destinațiile de export de vin din Republica Moldova. Totodată, infuzia de capital din exterior, inclusiv american, ar spori performanța exportului de vin din această țară”. ”Ne bucură foarte mult faptul că avem mesaje prin care este manifestat interesul pentru sectorul vitivinicol din Republica Moldova din partea unor organizații, companii și centre de profil din SUA.

Persons: Paulei Stanca, Martin Organizations: Pro Hospitality Group, Romanian, Horizon Locations: americane, Europei de Est, Chișinău, Republica Moldova, SUA, american, Hampton, Importing, New York, Europa, Est, Occident, Europa de Est

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