Damn you Starbucks! Just as the coffee giant is off raising prices, it goes and starts making plans to sell a lot more booze. But not in the Northeast. Yet. more ›

The perks of being a waiter are few and "family meal" is definitely one of them. But so we are clear, not included in that free feeding are bottles of pricey wine—as one waiter at the tony Italian restaurant SD26 recently found out, after he allegedly walked away with a Christmas bounty of eight bottles from the restaurant's private "Wine Connoisseurs Room." more ›

Yo, this year's batch of Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau was uncorked just after midnight, and it's got a bangin' new label that's sure to resonate with the wine's urban demographic! By French law, Beaujolais Nouveau—a young red wine made from the Gamay grape and bottled at the end of harvest—may not be released before the third Thursday in November. So the company does a big publicity stunt every year, uncorking the first bottle at the stroke of midnight, and designing a different label. This time they hired Brooklyn graffiti artist Kaves to do the honors. more ›

For a while there, it looked like drinkers had Science on their side: there were reports saying that wine blocks sunburns and older women should drink every day. But now, Science has seemingly turned its back on alcohol and the ladies who love it: a new study shows that women who consume as little as three drinks a week have an elevated risk of breast cancer. more ›

It's a product we could have imagined the perpetually classy 757 owner Donald Trump spitballing while slicing up a double-layered pizza with knife and fork...and then rejecting for being unclassy. And yet, you can now drown your memories of that painful day with commemorative booze: a Long Island winery has created a 9/11 Memorial Commemorative Merlot and a 9/11 Memorial Commemorative Chardonnay. And each costs $19.11 a bottle if you buy directly from the winery. more ›

As the fan bases of bands from the '70s and '80s get older, it means that they generally have more money to spend on crap that their idols sell them. Purveyors of Cro-Magnon rock AC/DC now join the ranks of KISS, Motörhead, Whitesnake and Warrant in releasing their new line of fine wines, according to the Australian Associated Press. Our sources tell us that the wines will all have notes of "heavy sexual innuendo, a 4/4 time signature, zero cymbals, and will all taste exactly the same." more ›

Today in Studies That Will Make You Feel Better About Your Drinking Habit, science says that drinking wine could help stop sunburn and possibly even skin cancer—so drink up, sun-worshippers! more ›

An insanely wealthy French restaurateur just picked up the world's most expensive bottle of wine (white, for those curious), a 1811 Chateau d'Yquem dessert wine that retails for, oh, about $117,000. more ›

The DVR is probably already set, but just a quick reminder: Tonight is the last episode of Glenn Beck on Fox News. Of course Beck's radio show will continue to broadcast his thoughts, so everyone can still get their fill of insanity once his TV show ends later today. more ›

If things go just so, New York State could soon get not just marriage equality, we could also catch up with 35 other states in the Union and let you pick up a bottle of red when you buy your bread and butter. Not only are there currently bills working through Albany with bi-partisan support, such a move has support from almost all New Yorkers, according to a new Siena poll [PDF]. Well, except for two groups that don't normally agree. more ›

Wondering exactly which varietal helps those Chicken McNuggets go down the smoothest during that romantic candlelit dinner? Wonder no more, thanks to wine website Snooth's handy guide to McDonald's Wine Pairings, which will guide you toward sodium-infused bliss. more ›

Despite the fact that you can buy wine and groceries on Fresh Direct and in 35 other states, you still can't do so in New York—public support be damned. Still, lawmakers are once again trying to make liquor store owners here miserable by introducing legislation that would finally let you buy vino at the Met (while throwing a few bones to the liquor stores). The issue could possibly come to a vote in the next month. more ›

Considering how well the auction of Bernie Madoff's junk went last year is it any surprise that his wine collection did boffo business on the auction block as well? Yesterday's auction of more than 250 bottles of wine and liquor in 59 lots sold for $41,530—$20,000 dollars more than the highest pre-bid estimate for the set. Somebody even spent $300 to buy four airline-size bottles of booze! more ›

Drink your way through a little bit of Ponzi-tainted history next week, when the personal wine collection of one Bernie Madoff goes up on the auction block at Morrell & Co. Will the taste of pyramid schemes be smooth and earthy, or robust and fruity? You'll have to bid to find out. more ›

"Bart," who was offering the deal of century ($3,200 a bottle) on Craigslist, seemed legit because the victim had bought pricey wine off the site a few weeks earlier from another seller without a hitch. But after arriving at the designated meeting place, he was "tied up and robbed of $40,100." A witness saw the man stagger from the building with "his head bleeding. He had no shoes or socks." No problem, you can find those on Craigslist. more ›

It was bad enough when Pennsylvania got its first self-serve wine kiosks last year, with thousands of bottles available at the click of a button in grocery stores. But now, they've gone too far: the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is on the verge of approving a pilot program to sell hard liquor out of those wine vending kiosks. Why is the sixth borough at the cutting edge of alco-vending machine technology??? more ›

An annoying habit: We find it impossible to utter the name of Vine Wine, a popular Long Island City wine shop, without a Transylvanian Dracula voice. But don't let that vrighten you avay—the place just relocated to Williamsburg, and they're having their first wine tasting tonight. Located in the former Brooklyn Kitchen space, Vine Wine will expand its retail operation "to create a diverse Vine Wine education program offering monthly classes, technical tastings and a visiting winemaker series." The classes will offer wine pairings with items such as house-cured sausages and other small-plates from The Meat Hook, which is also located there. more ›

Following her Thursday night tumble outside of Motor City Bar on the Lower East Side, Lindsay Lohan continued to drink her clumsy juice into the weekend. At least, so it would seem! According to vague reports and anonymous sources, the fallen starlet was bar-hopping on Friday night, hitting up RiffRaff's in the Flatiron District for the Cut Copy afterparty, and then heading to the Standard (where we're pretty sure an LCD Soundsystem afterparty was taking place). more ›

Happy National Drink Wine Day! While some of us may celebrate this holiday every day, for those who don't like to indulge in a glass (or bottle) on the daily, now is your time to step up and pay tribute. This holiday is criminally under-publicized, and our email well is dry of any National Drink Wine Day events happening around the city. We'll update if we hear about any, but for now, just plan on uncorking a bottle at 5 p.m. (and another at 6 p.m., and so on). more ›

There is only one wine that pairs well with Fast Food, and that's the kind that comes in a box and burns a little on the way down... or is it? Zagat, following their Fast Food survey, has now attempted the impossible: pairing up Whoppers and whatnot with real wine. They got sommelier Clare Shaheen, of New York’s TriBeCa Grill, to give recommendations—all of her tasting notes and pairings can be found here, but here's a sample. more ›

Talk of selling wine in grocery stores has been going on for a while, with Governor Paterson supporting the move as a means to raise revenue for our depleted deficit. Liquor stores may not be behind his bill, but who else amongst us doesn't want the convenience of stocking up on Franzia when loading up the shopping cart? Besides, Fresh Direct and 35 other states are happy to serve up wine with your groceries. Well, according to the Daily Politics, advocates for the sale of wine in grocery stores have taken to the internet with a new ad campaign. more ›

Click through on the images for details on Loreley's German-styled brunch, tracking food trucks with Truxmap, selecting wine via iPad at South Gate, and Tuesday's five-course Captain Lawrence beer dinner at The Vanderbilt. more ›