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Bar Convent Brooklyn 2024

Bar Convent Brooklyn 2024
The Skurnik team made a big splash at Bar Convent Brooklyn, the biggest New York spirits event of the year.    Bar Convent Brooklyn is a gargantuan, two-day trade show featuring a confluence of spirits and spirits professionals from around...

Summer Cocktails with Tom Jackson of Supergay Spirits

Summer Cocktails with Tom Jackson of Supergay Spirits
In this video, Tom shares two summery cocktail recipes he developed specifically with Supergay vodka: the Farmer’s Cosmo and the Spicy Boy.  Tom left his previous career driven by his twin passions: to create the best vodka ever and to...

Introducing Weingut Knewitz

Introducing Weingut Knewitz
In the Rheinhessen, a family estate is reaping the benefits of well over 100 years of family history and 40 million years of geological evolution with showstopping cool climate wines.    The Rheinhessen is the largest winemaking region in Germany...

The 2024 Brooklyn Spring Tasting

The 2024 Brooklyn Spring Tasting
  We celebrated our annual Brooklyn Spring Tasting on May 7th and welcomed dozens of producers from around the world to pour and discuss their exciting wines, spirits, and sakes.  The tasting featured appearances from some of our favorite local...

A Trip to the Finger Lakes

A Trip to the Finger Lakes
The itinerary included the vineyards of Hermann J. Wiemer, Ravines, and Apollo’s Praise, plus a stop at Finger Lakes Distilling.   Most regions with a continental climate enjoy four seasons: spring, summer, fall, and winter. Much of Upstate New York,...

Earth Day 2024: Remy Saves the Sea

Earth Day 2024: Remy Saves the Sea
Meet the father-daughter duo fighting plastic pollution with a special bottle of California rosé.   Remy Dorrance is not your average 13-year-old kid. She loves chasing bugs in the grass, surfing the Pacific, and ripping mountain bike trails with her...

A Celebration of Women in Wine & Spirits

A Celebration of Women in Wine & Spirits
This past March, we had the privilege of hosting a live panel and networking event to celebrate Women’s History Month. We explored the experiences, challenges, and triumphs of being a woman in the wine and spirits industry. The evening was...

Unboxing “Batch Ceniza” from Distilería Santanera

Once a year, our friends at Santanera release a special, limited edition bottling of intensely terroir-specific blanco tequila. Each batch is produced from agave grown by the Santanera team in a unique parcel in Los Valles, fully certified organic in...

Welcome to the Portfolio, Pray Tell!

Welcome to the Portfolio, Pray Tell!
Pray Tell is the solo project of Tom Caruso, a young Oregon-based winemaker who produces beautiful, organically grown, low-intervention wines.   Tom grew up in South Philadelphia to an Italian immigrant family. His childhood frequently featured scenes of making Merlot...