I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the...

If it hasn’t begun already, the grape harvest should be getting underway in Spain this month. As the growing season wanes and summer gives...

It’s the eve of a holiday weekend here in New York, with the long Labor Day weekend traditionally marking the end of summer for...

Despite what the name of this column may have led you to believe, I almost never drink and bird. On days I do bird,...

The recent taxonomy of India Pale Ale – more popularly known these days by its initialism IPA – is as confusing and unstable as...

It’s often said that the native wild grape varieties of the New World– of the species Vitis riparia, Vitis labrusca, Vitis aestivalis, and Vitis...

Depending on one’s perspective, it’s either through hilariously misleading irony or outright false advertising that many of the world’s great liquors derive their English...

With about two-thirds of the United States on the verge of a dangerous heatwave, I’m hesitant to endorse any libation but shockingly cold ice...